Václav Janeček
Biography
Václav Janeček is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School. At the Oxford Law Faculty, Václav contributes to the delivery of the Law and Computer Science course as a guest lecturer. He is also an Associate Member of the Department of Computer Science in Oxford.
His work focuses on private law theory and philosophical puzzles at the intersection of law and computer science. He has recently completed his second doctorate (DPhil in Law) which explored the role of public interests in the English law of damages (supervised by James Goudkamp).
Together with Rebecca Williams and Tom Melham he is a Co-Director of the Oxford LawTech Education Programme.
Previously, Václav was a Research and Course Development Fellow in Law and Technology, working on the project ‘Unlocking the Potential of AI for English Law’.
His first PhD (in Theory, Philosophy and Sociology of Law) examined the concept of legal responsibility from doctrinal, comparative, historical and philosophical viewpoints (supervised by Karel Beran).
Václav has postdoctoral research experience from the Institute of Law and Technology (Brno) and the Digital Ethics Lab (Oxford Internet Institute). He was also a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg), at the Institute for European Tort Law (Vienna), and at the European University Institute (Fiesole).
In 2018 and 2019, Václav served as an associate editor for the Oxford Business Law Blog.
Václav studied law and philosophy at Charles University and the University of Sussex. Earlier in his career, he practised law in the Czech Republic for several years, specialising in private law, public procurement, and ICT law.
Publications
Janeček V and Santos C, ‘The autonomous concept of “damage” according to the GDPR and its unfortunate implications: Österreichische Post’ (2024) 61(Issue 2) Common Market Law Review 531
Janeček V, ‘Judgments as bulk data’ (2023) 10(1) Big Data & Society 20539517231160527
Janeček V, ‘Rethinking Law, Regulation, and Technology by Roger Brownsword’ (2022) 30(4) International Journal of Law and Information Technology 512
Janeček V, Williams R and Keep E, ‘Education for the provision of technologically enhanced legal services’ (2021) 40 Computer Law and Security Review
Janeček V, ‘Richard Susskind, Online Courts and the Future of Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 368 pp, hb £18.99.’ (2021) 84(1) Modern Law Review 189
Janecek V, ‘Online Courts and the Future of Justice’ (2021) 84(1) MODERN LAW REVIEW 189
JANECEK V, ‘Data protection, the value of privacy and compensable damage’ [2020] Cambridge Law Journal
Janecek V, Williams R and Keep E, ‘Education for the Provision of Technologically Enhanced Legal Services’
JANECEK V and Malgieri G, ‘Commerce in Data and the Dynamically Limited Alienability Rule’ (2020) 21 German Law Journal
JANECEK V, ‘Public Interest Damages’ (2020) 40 Legal Studies
Janeček V, ‘Digitalised legal information: Towards a new publication model’ [2019] 2018 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab 149
Janeček V and Malgieri G, ‘Data Extra Commercium’
JANECEK V, ‘CPR Pt 36—Enhanced Interest Should Not Function as Punitive Damages for Malicious Defence’ (2019) 38(2) Civil Justice Quarterly 168
Janecek V, ‘Ownership of personal data in the Internet of Things’ (2018) 34(5) Computer Law & Security Review 1039
Janeček V, ‘Summary’ [2017] Critique of Legal Responsibility
Janecek V, ‘Kdy lze de lege lata poškozenému přiznat preventivně-sankční složku přiměřeného zadostiučinění’ (2016) 24(22) Právní Rozhledy 767
Janecek V, ‘Kauzalita a rozsah odpovědnosti’ (2016) 155(11) Právník 959
Janecek V, ‘Nerovná subjektivní odpovědnost’ (2016) 25(5) Jurisprudence 15
Brodec J and Janecek V, ‘How Does the Substantial Modification of a Public Contract Affect its Legal Regime?’ (2015) 24(3) Public Procurement Law Review 90
Janecek V and Brodec J, ‘Neplatnost právního jednání pro rozpor se zákonem o veřejných zakázkách [Invalidity of Legal Transaction That Is Contrary to the Act on Public Contracts]’ (2015) 24(4) Jurisprudence 3
Janecek V, ‘Exemplary Damages: A Genuine Concept?’ (2014) 6(2) European Journal of Legal Studies 189
Janecek V and Trnka O, ‘Náhrady zastupitelů za výkon funkce v praxi aneb co může být po volbách jinak [Reimbursements for the Municipal Representatives in Practice]’ (2014) 22(9) Právní rádce 64
Janecek V and Brodec J, ‘Podstatná změna smlouvy jakožto privativní novace [Material Amendment to a Contract as Privative Novation]’ (2014) 23(5) Jurisprudence 3
Janecek V and Brodec J, ‘Veřejné zakázky na stavební práce vs. nová legislativa EU [Works Contracts vs New EU Legislation]’ (2014) 2(1) Veřejné zakázky V Praxi 16
Janecek V, ‘Sankční náhrada škody’ (2013) 152(10) Právník 989
Janecek V, ‘K přípustnosti sankční náhrady škody’ (2013) 21(5) Právní Rozhledy 153
Janecek V and Williams R, ‘LawTech Education: A View from Oxford’ Teaching Law Ina Digital Age
‘K přípustnosti sankční náhrady škody (On the Acceptability of Exemplary Damages)’ [2013] Právní Rozhledy
Janecek V, ‘Ownership of personal data in the Internet of Things’ Computer Law and Security Review
‘Sankční náhrada škody (Punitive Damages)’ [2013] Právník
Beran K and others, Artificial Legal Entities: Essays on Legal Agency and Liability (Wolters Kluwer 2019)
Beran K and others, Právní jednání a odpovědnost právnických osob [Legal Transactions and Legal Responsibility of Juristic Persons] (Wolters Kluwer 2018)
Janecek V, Kritika právní odpovědnosti (Wolters Kluwer 2018)
Janecek V, Kritika právní odpovědnosti [Critique of Legal Responsibility] (Wolters Kluwer 2018)
Gerloch A and others, Praktikum teorie práva [Coursebook on Legal Theory] (Ales Cenek 2017)
JANECEK V and WILLIAMS R, ‘LawTech Education: A View from Oxford’ in Thanaraj and Gledhill (eds.), Teaching Law in a Digital Age (Routledge 2022)
JANECEK V, ‘Three problematic assumptions about public interests in law’ in L Tichý and M Potacs (eds.) (Intersentia 2021)
JANECEK V, ‘Digitalised Legal Information: Towards a New Publication Model’ in C Ohman and D Watson (eds.), The 2018 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab (Spriner 2019)
JANECEK V, ‘Personalised Dissemination of Legal Information’ in G Peruginelli and S Faro (eds.), Knowledge of the Law in the Big Data Age (IOS Press 2019)
JANECEK V, ‘Vicarious Liability of Juristic Persons: A Historical, Comparative and Philosophical Study’, Artificial Legal Entities: Essays on Legal Agency and Liability (Wolters Kluwer 2019)
Janecek V, ‘Shrnutí [Conclusion]’ in A Gerloch and K Beran (eds.), Funkce a místo právní odpovědnosti v recentním právním řádu [Function and Position of Legal Liability in the Recent Legal Order] (Leges 2014)
Janecek V, ‘Funkce náhrady škody [Functions of Damages]’ in A Gerloch and K Beran (eds.), Funkce a místo právní odpovědnosti v recentním právním řádu [Function and Position of Legal Liability in the Recent Legal Order] (Leges 2014)
Janecek V, ‘Fikcionalismus v právu [Fictionalism in Law]’ in P Šturma (ed.), IV. Konference studentské vědecké odborné činnosti: sborník vítězných prací [IV. Student Scientific Conference] (Charles University 2011)
Janecek V and Williams R, ‘LawTech Education: A View from Oxford’ in Thanaraj and Gledhill (eds.), Teaching Law in a Digital Age (Routledge)
Janecek V and Williams R, ‘LawTech Education: A View from Oxford’ in Thanaraj and Gledhill (eds.), Teaching Law in a Digital Age (Routledge)
Janecek V, ‘Damages for Violations of Public Interests’ (Oxford Business Law Blog, 1 August 2020)
Janecek V and Malgieri G, ‘When Data Cannot Be Traded’ (Oxford Business Law Blog, 1 June 2019)
Janecek V, ‘Trade in Data: Constructive Limits of Personal Data Ownership’ (Oxford Business Law Blog, 1 May 2018)
Janecek V, ‘Ownership of Personal Data in the Internet of Things’ (SSRN, 1 December 2017)
Janecek V, ‘Five Misconceptions about Public Interests in Law’ (’Public Interest in Law’ Conference, Prague, 17-18 October 2019 2019)
Janecek V, ‘Methods of Distinguishing Between Private and Public Law’ (the 110th Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars (Comparative Law section), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 3–6 September 2019 2019)
Janecek V, ‘Damages and the Distinctive Threshold for Legally Protected Public Interests’ (the 110th Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars (Tort Law section), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 3–6 September 2019 2019)
Janecek V, ‘The (In)Alienable Data Subject: The seductions of data ownership, control and trade in data protection law’ (Inaugural Summer School Opening event (4th European Data Protection Law Summer School, Brussels Privacy Hub) 2019)
Janecek V, ‘A Theory of Public Damages’ (the Obligations IX Conference, Melbourne (17-20 July 2018) 2018)
Janecek V, ‘A Theory of Public Damages’ (the Obligations Discussion Group, Oxford (10 May 2018) 2018)
Janecek V, ‘Personal Data Ownership: Ethical and Normative Implications’ (Living in the Internet of Things: Cybersecurity of the IoT - A PETRAS, IoTUK & IET Event (Savoy Place, London, 28 - 29 March) 2018)
Janecek V, ‘Data ownership in IoT: ethical and regulatory implications’ (2018)
Janecek V, ‘Politika v právních normách [Politics in Legal Norms]’ (Weyr’s Days of Legal Theory 2017 (International conference), Brno (CZE) 2017)
Janecek V, ‘A Theoretical Conception of Delictual Liability under the New Czech Civil Code – Doctrinal Limits on Punitive Awards’ (Juristenrunde, Institute for European Tort Law, Vienna, 3. 8. 2016 2016)
Janecek V, ‘Theoretical Conception of Civil Liability – A Cold War in Legal Theory’ (Aktuelle Stunde, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg, 17. 3. 2016 2016)
Janecek V, ‘Podstatná změna smlouvy ve světle přechodných ustanovení [Material Amendment to a Contract in the Light of Transitional Provisions]’ (8th Olomouc Days of Law (An International Scientific Conference), Olomouc, 15. - 16. 5. 2014 2014)
Janeček V and Malgieri G, ‘Commerce in Data and the Dynamically Limited Alienability Rule’ (2020) 21(5) German Law Journal 924 (review)
Janecek V, ‘A Book Review: Humans as a Service (OUP 2018) by Jeremias Prassl’ (2018) 3(Nov) Oxford Business Law Blog (review)
Janecek V, ‘TICHÝ, Luboš a Jiří HRÁDEK. Deliktní právo’ (2017) 25(3) Časopis Pro právní vědu a Praxi 571 (review)
Janecek V, ‘L Tichy and J Hradek, The Law of Delict [Deliktní právo] (CH Beck 2017)’ (2017) 25(3) ÄŒasopis Pro právní vědu a Praxi 571 (review)
Janecek V, ‘Mass Compensation Claims for Illegal Online Tracking’ (2022) 138(2) Law Quarterly Review (case-note)
Janecek V, ‘CPR Pt 36—Enhanced Interest Should Not Function as Punitive Damages for Malicious Defence’ (2019) 38(2) Civil Justice Quarterly 168 (case-note)
Janecek V, ‘Strogovic and Kelsen: A Theory of a Norm Structure’