A mathematician client wanted a probability rather than "it depends" — but nobody had the data. With Adam Jareš on what can be read out of the open data of the Czech judiciary: how panels at the High Court in Prague differ in how often they quash and vary decisions, why running a language model over a hundred thousand judgments makes no sense, and why an honest prediction costs a lawyer the cases that would have dragged on for years.
Lawyers have ever more capable AI tools but use them as little more than an expensive chatbot. On the Legální kód podcast, on what AI in law can actually do today: legal and case-law research, working with a firm's internal know-how, playbooks and tabular review, due diligence — and how general models differ from specialised legal AI platforms.
I contributed to a documentary film about the phenomenon of "forgotten shares". Hundreds of thousands of people in the Czech Republic are sitting on billions in shares they have forgotten about.
The book deals with identifying the beneficial owner of legal persons and other legal arrangements — trusts in particular — from the perspective of the bodies active in criminal proceedings.
An overview of the changes to the beneficial ownership register, written with Thomas Rechberger, Ph.D. Published in EPRAVO.CZ magazine 1/2020 (p. 87 et seq.).
The paper examines the development of new, more environmentally sound technologies. It documents the overwhelming financial support the state gives to their development and asks whether the traditional conception of patent law is still justified in that setting.
The new Public Procurement Act also seeks to stimulate innovation through public contracts. The article traces the wider development of that provision in European Union debates and in the European Commission's statements.
