Barbara completed her first degree in law at the Charles University in Prague and holds an LL.M. from Europa-Institut, Saarland University. She obtained a DPhil from Oxford for her research on “Gender in law under and after State Socialism: the example of the Czech Republic”.Barbara was previously the Herchel Smith Lecturer and Fellow in Law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the CSET Teaching Fellow in EU Law at the Oxford Faculty of Law. She worked for Clifford Chance Prague, trained at the Legal Service of the European Commission and in the Chambers of AG Poiares Maduro at the Court of Justice of the European Union. She was an academic visitor at several law schools, including Harvard University and University of Michigan as a Fulbright scholar.