JUDr. Hana Müllerová, Ph.D.

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Research field

Climate law, Environmental law, Public law, Human rights law

9/2025–8/2027 Project ERC CZ "Climate Law Under Pressure: Calls for Exigency" funded by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports – Principal Investigator
2022–2026 Project "Climate Change Law in Europe" funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and coordinated by Hasselt University – head of the Czech research team within the international consortium
2020–2023 Project SOLSTICE: „Socially Just and Politically Robust Decarbonisation: A Knowledge Base and Toolkit for Policymakers“ (JustDecarb) – head of the Czech research team within the international consortium
2020–2024 Project "Climate Law" (‘Lumina quaeruntur’ award of the Czech Academy of Sciences ) – head of the research team
2018–2019 Grant project of the International Visegrad Fund "Progress in collective redress mechanisms in environmental and consumer mass harm situations"
2014–2016 Grant project of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic "Human right to environment in national law: advanced theory, poor practice?" – Principal Investigator
2013 Grant project of the International Visegrad Fund "Public participation in environmental decision-making: Implementation of the Aarhus Convention"
2010–2012 Grant project of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic "Legal Protection and Care for Animals (International, European and National Level)"

Head of the Department of Public Law of the Institute of State and Law of the CAS
Head of the Centre for Climate Law and sustainability Studies (CLASS) of the Institute of State and Law of the CAS
Member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and its Climate Change Law Specialist Group; member of the IUCN Climate Crisis Commission
Member of the General Editorial Board of the book series "Climate Change Law and Governance" at NOMOS
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Czech Minister of Environment
Member of the Commission for the Environment of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Member of the Czech Environmental Law Society

Media appearances in Czech TV, radio, podcasts, newspapers
Contributing to several public discussion seminars organized by the Academy of Sciences, on the topic e.g. microplastics in waters, new plastic strategy of the EU, the need of the new forest legislation for a sustainable forestry, sustainable consumption, climate legislation, and others.
Organization of round table talks and conferences for the public on the topic of Landslides (within the Strategy AV21, Programme Natural Hazards), and on the topic of Forest protection (within the Strategy AV21, Programme Biodiversity and Ecosystems)
Public lectures and lectures for high school students on various environmental law topics

Participation in the Scientific Council of the Czech EnviThesis competition for bachelor's and master's theses in the field of the environment, organized by the Institute for Economic and Environmental Policy (IEEP) at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (UJEP)
Educational seminars and lectures: e.g., for employees of the Supreme Audit Office on the topic of the Green Deal for Europe (with E. Balounová), 2023; for employees of the Supreme Administrative Court on the topic of Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation of the Aarhus Convention, 2015; for public administration officials on the topic of Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making, 2014
Management of student internships, e.g., within the Czech Academy of Sciences Open Science program (2017–2018), ELSA internships