Jakub Míšek

Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University

data governance, open data, privacy and personal data protection

Jakub Míšek graduated from the Faculty of Music and Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he studied Music Theory, and from the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University. In 2019, he completed his rigorous thesis there on the topic Legal Aspects of Open Data. In 2020, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, which was subsequently published as Modern Regulatory Methods of Personal Data Protection (2020). He currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, and is also involved in teaching at foreign universities, including Georg August University of Göttingen and the University of Haifa.

His research focuses primarily on data governance, the right to information, open data, privacy and personal data protection, eGovernment, and the regulation of artificial intelligence. Since 2015, he has been cooperating with the Chief eGovernment Architect’s Department (Ministry of the Interior and the Digital and Information Agency) on legal issues related to data governance in the public sector, including the preparation of legislative proposals concerning open data and data governance. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Appeals Commission of the Office for Personal Data Protection. In his free time, he plays the piano and guitar and enjoys reflecting on the similarities between legal and musical interpretation.