After defending his doctoral thesis in 2004 on the principle of proportionality before the European human rights judge, Petr Muzny successfully completed his agrégation in law and was appointed Professor of Public Law at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc in 2006.
He was also appointed Professor of Law at the University of Geneva in 2010, where he still practices. His preferred areas of teaching and research include legal reasoning and logic, medical law and pedagogy in the teaching of law. His favourite subject is human rights.
Professor Muzny is the author of dozens of published articles and numerous other publications in both French and English.
Mr. Muzny handles numerous cases in which people have suffered violations of their fundamental rights. He has appealed to international courts and national supreme courts all over the world.
He has had the privilege given to few lawyers in Europe of pleading twice before both the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (2010, 2024) and the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2018). He has also appeared before the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden (2013/2017), the Constitutional Court of Belgium (2019), the Constitutional Court of Madagascar (2023, the Supreme Court of Cameroon (2024).
He has handled dozens of cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
He was invited for his expertise in international human rights law as Amicus Curiae in one of South Korea’s most high-profile cases concerning the right of conscientious objectors to military service (2019). More recently, he presented the results of his expertise on the scope of protection of indigenous rights before the Constitutional Court of Ecuador (2020).
He handles most of his cases in English and French. He has also worked on cases in Italian, Spanish, Czech and Arabic.
In 1993 Petr Muzny was French volleyball champion (junior). He still keeps fit by doing many sports such as marathon running, trail running and cycling.
(Translation of the legal novel by the famous Greek lawyer, defender of conscientious objectors during and after the colonial regime) Sometimes it’s simple coincidences, encounters made seemingly by chance, that turn our whole lives upside down. The one experienced by Minas Destounis, a young Greek man barely 18, radically changed
Clear, fun and original: these are the key words of this introduction to the law. CLEAR – With its three parts, 16 lessons and 26 exercises, Petr MUZNY’s “INTRODUCTION TO LAW” doesn’t just add to the long list of well-known works on the subject. It breaks new ground by addressing
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