Peter Kerecman (born 16 September 1972,
Košice
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,
Czechoslovakia
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) is a Slovak lawyer and non-fiction author. He published several books and more than 90 journal articles on press freedom, history of advocacy and other law areas.
In 1995, he graduated from Faculty of Law of
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and in 1999 he obtained Doctor of Law degree. In 1995–2000 he studied Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of
University of Comenius in Bratislava (PhD.) and worked as an
associate.
Kerecman opened his own law firm in 2000 in Košice. He is currently one of seven members of Slovak Republic Press Council (since 2004), the top body of Association for the Protection of Journalists' Ethics in the Slovak Republic. He is also an external advisor to
Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
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Ta ...
(since 2007), chairman of Advocacy History Commission of the
Slovak Bar Association, a member of
Amnesty International
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and Society of Advocacy History (Czech: Společnost pro historii advokácie) in
Prague
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.
He is also editorial board vice-chair of ''
Bulletin of Slovak Advocacy'' (Slovak: ''Bulletin slovenskej advokácie''), journal for law studies.
Publications
His monographies include:
*''Eutanázia, asistovaná samovražda – právne aspekty''
uthanasia, assisted suicide – law aspects(1999)
*''Novinári a sloboda tlače v rozsudkoch Európskeho súdu pre ľudské práva''
ournalists and press freedom in European Court of Human Rights decisions(2003)
*''Kapitoly z dejín advokácie na Slovensku''
hapters from advocacy history in Slovakia(2005)
*''Sloboda prejavu novinára a ochrana pred jej zneužitím''
reedom of speech and protection from its misuse(2009)
*''História advokácie na Slovensku''
istory of advocacy in Slovakia(2011, co-author with R. Manik)
*''Advokát Janko Jesenský, spisovateľ a legionár''
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*''Advokát Ivan Horváth a advokáti v jeho diele'' [Attorney Ivan Horváth and attorneys in his works] (2014).
References
External links
Curriculum Vitae
21st-century Slovak lawyers
1972 births
Living people
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