Visiting Fellows

Mr. Vaclav Slavicek - Czech Republic  

Mr. Slavicek graduated with a master's degree in law from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) in 1992. He has been practising as a Czech attorney at law since 1997 and is a member of the Czech Bar Association as well as of Law Societies of New South Wales and Queensland (Australia). Mr. Slavicek is also an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic.

His professional profile contains rich general legal practice including criminal, business and civil laws within their both material and legal procedure forms. Except for mentioned general attorney practice, during the last two decades, he has been appointed as a head of legal restructuring regarding projects in various areas of business in the Czech Republic and Romania. In 2018 Mr. Slavicek has established legal cooperation between Australian and Czech law firms setting a goal to offer the most effective and affordable way to meet legal tasks of Czech minorities in Australia in both Czech and Australian issues, as well as of business subjects operating on Australia - European Union common market.

From a professional-scientific point of view, Mr. Slavicek has long devoted himself to criminal law, which is his favourite professional specialization in law practice. Since 2019 he has been a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, the Department of Criminal Law. The topic of his dissertation is aspects of the statute of limitations for ongoing and continuing crimes and the comparison of legal regulations with Anglo-Saxon law.

Read Statue of Limitations in Criminal matters – Czech Republic and Queensland

Hon Justice Minoh Kwon - Republic of South Korea  

Minoh Kwon is a visiting scholar at the TC Beirne School of Law. He has worked as a judge for ten years in Korea after six years experiences of a prosecutor. Especially he has a three-year of experience as a judicial researcher in the Supreme Court of Korea, where he contributed to many important decisions in civil and criminal cases. He is now in charge of criminal trials in Daegu District Court.

Visiting Fellows are expected to meet the following obligations:

• Pursue the research project outlined in their applications or other research in consultation with the Director;
• Participate in the Centre's activities as a member of the Centre;
• Present at least one seminar on research in progress;
• Suitably acknowledge the membership of the Centre in any publication, conference paper or research report that results from research done wholly or partly at the Centre or with the Centre's support; and
• Inform the Director of any publication, conference paper or research report that results from research done wholly or partly at the Centre or with the Centre's support

Written applications for Visiting Fellowships must be accompanied by the following:

• A Curriculum Vitae;
• A bibliography of published work;
• A research proposal outlining the research project to be pursued at the Centre; and
• Sources of funding available to the applicant (sabbatical entitlements, grants, scholarships, private funding etc.)

 Note: This is a research, not a teaching, fellowship.

Applications must be received at least 3 months before the proposed date of commencement of the Fellowship. Applications should be mailed or emailed to:

Professor Anthony Cassimatis
Director CPICL
T.C. Beirne School of Law
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Australia
a.cassimatis@law.uq.edu.au