Sarah Ourednickova

Sarah Ourednickova is a DPhil in Law candidate researching recognition and participation of LGBTQ+ people through courts. She is supervised by Kate O’Regan and Leah Trueblood. She holds degrees from the University of Oxford (MJur, 2023) and Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic (Mgr - Master in Law, 2022).

During her DPhil, she has been a Graduate Teacher at the University of Oxford on the Opportunity Oxford & Oxford Law Springboard Programme, an access and outreach programme for disadvantaged and underrepresented offer-holders in law, in 2023 and 2024, a Research Assistant at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in 2023/2024 and a Graduate Research Resident at Bonavero in 2025.

Journal Articles:

David Kosař and Sarah Ouředníčková, ‘Responsive Judicial Review “Light” in Central and Eastern Europe – A New Sheriff in Town?’ (2023) 48 Review of Central and East European Law 445 https://brill.com/view/journals/rela/48/3-4/article-p445_008.xml

Sarah Ouředníčková, ‘“Bespoke Justice”: Scotland’s Unique Approach to Child Offenders’ (2021) 8 The University of Glasgow Law Review 2020-2021 80 https://www.glasgowuniversitylawreview.com/volumes

Book Chapters:

Sarah Ouředníčková, ‘Máma a půl: proč stejnopohlavní rodiny v ČR nemají stejná práva jako v Rakousku a Německu a co s tím?’ [Mum and a Half: Why Same-sex Families in Czech Republic Don’t Have the Same Rights as in Austria and Germany and What to Do About it?] in Kateřina Šimáčková, Barbara Havelková,  Pavla Špondr Večl (eds), Mužské právo II [Men’s Law II] (Wolters Kluwer 2025), reprinted in no 7-8 and 9 Soukromé právo (2024) [Private Law] (Wolters Kluwer journal)

Blogs:

Zuzana Vikarská and Sarah Ouředníčková, The New Transgender Ruling in Czechia: From Ignorance to Responsiveness, VerfassungsBlog, 2024/5/15, https://verfassungsblog.de/the-transgender-ruling-in-czechia/

Diana Dehelean and Sarah Ouředníčková, The Forgotten I in LGBTIQ+: ECtHR Turns Its Back on Intersex People, OxHRH Blog (Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog), 22/02/2023 https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-forgotten-i-in-lgbtqia-ecthr-turns-its-back-on-intersex-people/

Diana Dehelean and Sarah Ouředníčková, War, Schengen, and the Rule of Law: The European Union’s early Christmas present to Romania, VerfBlog, 2022/11/29, https://verfassungsblog.de/war-schengen-and-the-rule-of-law/

Zuzana Vikarská and Sarah Ouředníčková, ‘K nálezu (menšiny) Ústavního soudu o mužích a ženách’ [On the Constitutional Court's (minority) ruling on men and women], jinepravo.blogspot.com, 10/04/2022, https://jinepravo.blogspot.com/2022/04/o-muzich-a-zenach.html

Zuzana Vikarská and Sarah Ouředníčková: Evasive, Insensitive, Ignorant, and Political: The recent Czech transgender case, VerfBlog, 2022/4/06, https://verfassungsblog.de/evasive-insensitive-ignorant-and-political/