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Mgr. Petr Stejskal, LL.M., PhD.

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  • Mgr. Petr Stejskal, LL. M., Ph.D. is lecturer and researcher in public international law.

  • At the Faculty of Law of the Palacký University Olomouc, Petr teaches the courses of Public International Law and the Law or EU External Relations.

  • E-mail: petr.stejskal@upol.cz

Academic and
Professional experience

Main focus of Petr´s research interest is protection of foreign investments during the armed conflict, where multiple fields of international law overlap (law of foreign investments, law of armed conflict, human rights law, law of international treaties – applicability to occupied territories, conflict of norms). He also focuses on the law of transboundary water resources and its link with international security. Petr focuses also on foreign investment screening (experience from Czech national practice).

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Petr obtained his master’s degree in law at the Palacký University in Olomouc and graduated with honours in 2016. He wrote a thesis on the topic of “Coercion in International Law in the Background of Ukrainian Crisis”. Petr’s thesis was awarded the Rector’s prize as the best student scientific work in 2016. Petr also holds LL.M. degree in International and European law from the University of Amsterdam. Finally, Petr has completed his PhD degree at the Faculty of Law of the Palacký University in Olomouc. The topic of his dissertation was the protection of foreign investments during the armed conflict.


Petr has conducted several research and working stays abroad. He conducted internships at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in The Hague, the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations at Geneva and the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the United Nations in New York. He was also a visiting researcher at the South African Research Chair in International Law, University of Johannesburg, Department of European, International and Comparative Law of the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, or the IREDIES Centre of the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

Selected publications

  • Stejskal, P. The EU Anti-coercion Mechanism A Tool for Development or Fragmentation of International Law. In Kassoti, E. et al. (eds). The European Union and Regionalism. Concept and Contextual Perspectives. Brill, 2025, p. 170-198. DOI: 10.1163/9789004700659_009. Available here.

  • STEJSKAL, Petr. The Application of Foreign Investment Protection in Times of Armed Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. Available here.

  • STEJSKAL, Petr, ECKSTEIN, Gabriel. The Role of International Law in Water Security: A Focus on Transboundary Groundwater. In: Eckstein, G. (ed.). World Scientific Handbook of Transboundary Water Management. Volume 1: Cooperating Over Shared Freshwater Resources Using International Law. World Scientific, 2025, pp. 127-158. DOI: 10.1142/9789811291364_0006. Available here.

  • STEJSKAL, Petr, FAIX, Martin. Sanctions from the Perspective of the Right to Property – Confiscation of Assets. In Šturma, P. (ed), International Sanctions and Human Rights. Cham: Springer, 2024, p. 155-175. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-69019-8_9. Available here.

  • STEJSKAL, Petr. The Principle of Solidarity in International Water Law. In: Kassoti, Eva, Idriz, Narin (eds.). The Principle of Solidarity. International and EU Law Perspectives. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2023, p. 55-74. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6265-575-1. Available here.

  • STEJSKAL, Petr, FAIX, Martin. Legal Aspects of Misattribution Caused by Cyber Deception. In: Jančárková T. and others (eds.). 14th International Conference on Cyber Conflict: Keep Moving. Tallinn: NATO CCDCOE, 2022. Available here.

  • FAIX, Martin, STEJSKAL, Petr. Scenario 21: Misattribution caused by deception (2021, September 18). International cyber law: interactive toolkit, available online from https://cyberlaw.ccdcoe.org/w/index.php?title=Scenario_21:_Misattribution_caused_by_deception&oldid=2846

  • STEJSKAL. Petr. The Interplay of Fields of International Law in Case of Foreign Investments Affected by Armed Conflict. Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law. Prague: Czech Society of International Law, 2019, Vol. 10, pp. 396-409. Available here.

  • STEJSKAL, Petr. Potential effect of the law of belligerent occupation on the applicability of investment treaties in occupied territories. International and Comparative Law Review. 2018, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 152-196. Available here.

  • STEJSKAL, Petr. Mezinárodně-právní postavení zahraničních investorů v případě okupace státního území (International Legal Position of Foreign Investors during Belligerent Occupation). In: Šturma, P., Trávníčková, Z. (eds.). Jednotlivec v mezinárodním právu na počátku třetího tisíciletí. 2018, pp. 175-188.

  • STEJSKAL, Petr. War: Foreign Investments in Danger: Can International Humanitarian Law or Full Protection and Security Clause Always Save It? Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law. 2017, Vol. 8, pp. 529-549. Available here.

  • Stejskal, Petr. Ukrajinská krize a institut donucení v mezinárodním právu (Ukrainian Crisis and Coercion in International Law). In: Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava. Míľníky práva v stredoeurópskom priestore. 2017, p. 225-233.

Membership

  • International Association for Water Law

  • Multidisciplinary International Network on Sanctions (MINOS)

  • European Society of International Law

  • Czech Society of International Law

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