Michal Zalesak, Legal Consultant (Slovakia)

20 February 2018

Michal holds a Masters of Law (Mgr.) degree from the University of Matej Bel in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia and a Master of Law in Human Rights with a specialisation in EU Law (LL.M) degree from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He was an intern at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic in 2008 and at the ERRC in 2010. He worked as a legal trainee in a law office and for Ludia proti rasizmu (People Against Racism) as a project manager. He joined the ERRC in October 2012 as a legal fellow dealing with litigation and research in relation to the Czech Republic and Slovakia and was promoted to the position of Lawyer on 1 January 2015. In September 2014, Michal successfully passed bar exams to become attorney-in-law and has been working with the ERRC since February 2019 as a legal consultant.