David KOSAR is EU & Foreign Law Specialist at the Department of Research and Documentation of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic and external lecturer of Refugee Law and Public International Law at Masaryk University Brno. He is a member of American Society of International Law, European Society of International Law, International Association of Refugee Law Judges and a founding member of Czech Society of European and Comparative Law.

His main research areas are Refugee Law, Immigration Law, Human Rights Law, Freedom of Speech, Comparative Constitutional Law and Transitional Justice.

His most recent and important publications include:

• Migration Law in the Czech Republic, International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Migration Law, Kluwer Law International, 2011, forthcoming (co-authored with Hana Lupacova).
• Transitional Justice and Judicial Accountability: Institutional Design of Administration of Justice in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In CZARNOTA, A., PARMENTIER, S. (eds.): Transitional Justice, Rule of Law and Institutional Design. Antwerp, Intersentia Publishers, 2010, forthcoming.
• Soudni dvur – Bolbol: K vylouceni tzv. „palestinskych uprchliku” z Umluvy o pravnim postaveni uprchlíku [Court of Justice – Bolbol: On Exclusion of the so-called “Palestinian Refugees” from the 1951 Geneva Convention]. Soudni rozhledy, No. 10/2010, pp. 382-388.
• Zakon o azylu: komentar [Czech Asylum Act: Commentary], Praha: WOLTERS KLUWER CZ, 2010 (co-authored with Pavel Molek, Vera Honuskova, Hana Lupacova and Miroslav Jurman).
• National judges and supranational laws on the effective application of the EU law and the ECHR: Report on the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In MARTINICO G., POLLICINO, O. (eds.): National Judges and Supranational Laws. A comparative overview on the national treatment of EU Law and the ECHR, Groningen: Europa Law Publishing, 2010, pp. 157-189 (co-authored with Michal Bobek), published also as Eric Stein Working Paper No. 2/2010.
• Soudni dvur Evropskych spolecenstvi – Elgafaji:  K doplnkove ochrane poskytovane obetem ozbrojenych konfliktu [ECJ – Elgafaji: Subsidiary Protection and Art. 15(c) QD]. Soudni rozhledy, No. 6/2009, pp. 232-237.
• KOSAR, D.: Lustration and ‘Lapse of Time’: Dealing with the Past in the Czech Republic. European Constitutional Law Review, 2008, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 460-487 (published also as Eric Stein Working Paper No. 3/2008).
• Transpozice vybranych ustanoveni kvalifikacni smernice: legislativni minimalismus [Transposition of the Qualification Directive in the Czech Republic: Legislative Minimalism], in: JILEK, D. (ed.): Spolecny evropsky azylovy system: transpozice smernic, KVOP, Brno, 2008, pp. 63-74.
• Conflicts between Fundamental Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Czech Constitutional Court, in: BREMS, E. (ed.): Conflicts Between Fundamental Rights, Intersentia, 2008, pp. 347-378.
• Rozdily mezi azylem a doplnkovou ochranou [Asylum vs. Subsidiary Protection: Common and Distinctive Features], in: JILEK, D. (ed.): Spolecny evropsky azylovy system: doplnkova ochrana, Doplnek, Brno, 2007, pp. 9-37.
• Zjevne neduvodne zadosti o azyl (mezinarodni ochranu) a jejich soudni prezkum [Judicial Review of 'Manifestly Unfounded' Asylum Claims in the Czech Republic], in: JILEK, D., KLECKOVÁ, R. (eds.): Spolecny evropsky azylovy system: proceduralni smernice, Doplnek, Brno, 2006, pp. 167-186.).
• Said proti Nizozemi: Vyhosteni (ne)uspesnych zadatelu o azyl [Said v. Netherlands: Expulsion of Asylum Seekers and Art. 3 of ECHR], Prehled rozsudku Evropskeho soudu pro lidska prava, No. 1 (2006), pp. 57-65.
• Replika: Diskusni prispevek k aplikaci prekazek vycestovani pri rozhodovani dle ustanoveni § 15 zakona o azylu [Expulsion of Asylum Seekers and the Exclusion Clauses of the 1951 Geneva Convention], Spravni pravo, No. 1 (2006), pp. 55-64.
• Co si mysli strasbursky soud o lucemburskych institucich? [What Does the ECtHR Think About the Luxembourg Institutions?], Pravni rozhledy, No. 3 (2006), pp. 135-141.
• Nestatni puvodci pronasledovani [Non-state Agents of Persecution], in: JILEK, D. (ed.): Spolecny evropsky azylovy system: pojem pronasledovani, Doplnek, Brno, 2005, pp. 125-148.
• Pojem „pronasledovani“ v Zenevske umluve o uprchlicich z roku 1951 [The Meaning of ‘Persecution’ Within The 1951 Convention and The 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees], Pravnik, No. 5 (2005), pp. 467-495.
• Pronasledovani z duvodu prislusnosti k urcite socialni skupine: Vnitrni charakteristika nebo socialni percepce [Persecution on the Grounds of Membership of a Particular Social Group: Social Perception vs. Protected Characteristic], Casopis pro pravni vedu a praxi, No. 2 (2004), pp. 166-173.