Jaroslav Fenyk is one of the Czech Republic's foremost authorities on criminal law and procedure, white collar crime and international judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

From 1999 to 2006, he held the No. 2 position in the Czech public prosecutor administration, First Deputy Supreme Public Prosecutor of the Czech Republic. In this role, Mr. Fenyk directed the formation and establishment of relationships with EC institutions and adopted a new organizational structure for the public prosecutor administration. His duties included the supervision of the Department of International Judicial Co-operation and the Department of Serious Economic and Financial Crime.

Mr. Fenyk lectures extensively on criminal law and procedure (corruption, ethics, economic and financial crime, trial advocacy, international co-operation in criminal matters, money laundering, freezing of assets) at the Council of Europe, the Justice Academy of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Supreme Audit Office, the US Embassy in Prague and the Department of Justice in Washington D.C.

He has been an active member of various international research teams, including the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, the University of London, the Academy of European Law and the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Law. Among the topics of his research were the fight against corruption in the public and private sphere, economic and financial crime, money laundering, white collar crime, cross-border crime, and whistleblowing.

Currently, in addition to serving as counsel for White & Case, Mr. Fenyk is an Associated Professor of Law for both Charles University, Prague and Masaryk University, Brno; and Vice-dean of Bratislava's Law School. He is also a University Private Professor at Miskolc University, Budapest, and an external lecturer for the John Marshall Law School, Chicago.

Mr. Fenyk has co-authored a number of university textbooks and is the author of numerous scholarly works and articles in Czech and European legal publications. He has also spoken at more than 50 international conferences, seminars, roundtables, and colloquia.

Bars and Courts
Czech Bar Association

Education
Prof., Criminal law, Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, Brno, Czech Republic, 2009
DSc, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Prague, 2008
DSc, Police Academy in Bratislava, 2002
PhD, Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Law, Brno, Czech Republic, 2001
JUDr, Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague, Czech Republic, 1987

Professional Associations and Memberships
National coordinator of the Anti-Fraud Coordinating Structure (AFCOS) for Protection of Financial Funds in EC Budgets (Prague) – Head of the team which created National Strategy against EC Fraud
International Association for Criminal Law AIDP, Paris

Awards and Recognition
Saint Yvo award in the field of criminal law, Czech Lawyer 2010 competition

Publications
Grounds for Criminal Liability under New Criminal Code of CR, Act No. 40/2009, Coll., Criminal Law 3/2009
Europeanization of Criminal Law, Linde, Prague, 2009
Study on Impact of Anti-Corruption Measures in Slovak Republic – Legal and Comparative Analysis of Existing Anti-Corruption Legislation in SR (2008)
European Criminal Record in Czech Republic in Towards a European Criminal Record, Cambridge University Press, 2008
Criminal Law Etiology in European Union, Protection of Financial Interests of EC, Fraud within Member States of EC, Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms when Protecting Financial Interests of EC, European Public Prosecutor Project (New Form of International Judicial Cooperation in EU Member States?)
(Acta Universitatis Carolinae 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)

Languages
Czech
English
French
German
Russian

Citizenship
Czech Republic