Helena Válková
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Helena Válková MP |
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| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 29 January 2014 – 1 March 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Bohuslav Sobotka |
| Preceded by | Marie Benešová |
| Succeeded by | Robert Pelikán |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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Assumed office 26 October 2013 |
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| Personal details | |
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7 January 1951 Chlumec nad Cidlinou, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Alma mater | Charles University |
Helena Válková (born 7 January 1951) is a Czech politician, university professor, and lawyer, specialising in criminal law and criminology. From January 2014 until March 2015 she was the Czech Minister of Justice in the government of Bohuslav Sobotka. She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for ANO 2011, though she is now non-partisan. On 10 February 2015, Andrej Babiš, the leader of ANO 2011, announced that Válková will be replaced in the function by the lawyer Robert Pelikán. Válková's tenure ended on 1 March.
Válková attended the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, where she received her Candidate of Sciences in the field of criminal law. Between 1975 and 1988 she worked as a scientist at the Criminological Research Institute, and then until 1993 at the Institute of State and Law of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. She also taught from 1991 at the Charles University Faculty of Philosophy, where she laid the foundations for her social work in criminal justice, and from 1993 in the Faculty of Law at the University of West Bohemia in Plzen, where she became Head of the Criminal Law Department in 1998. She was temporarily suspended from this office in 2009 following her criticism of the faculty management. Further disagreements finally led her to leave the faculty in 2011. She gained a doctorate in Criminal Law in 2006 from the University of Trnava.
She is also a member of the Department of Public Law and Public Justice at the CEVRO Institute in Prague. In 1993 she founded the Czech branch of C. H. Beck, where she became director of publishing. She later became chief editor of the publishing schedule and of specialist magazines. She organised and took part in an international conference on criminal law and criminology, and took part in several study trips to the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. She was involved in writing the Juvenile Justice Law (č. 218/2003 Sb.).
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