JUDr. Marta Breichová Lapčáková, PhD. studied at the Faculty of Law at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, where she completed her undergraduate, rigorous and PhD studies. Her master thesis was focused on the development of the constitutional system in France until 1804. During her PhD. candidacy, she spent a research stay at the Department of Public Law, General and Comparative States of the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Bayreuth (Federal Republic of Germany). Her dissertation thesis on “Constitution and constitutional laws” was published in 2013 by Kalligram Publishing House. Since 2009 she has been an assistant professor at the Department of State Theory and Law (since September 2016, the Gustav Radbruch Institute of Legal Theory).
Her scientific and research activity focuses on the legal analysis of qualitative features of the government power associated with the historical analysis of the development of the constitutional state, as well as a comparison of constitutional models, the impact of the processes of Europeanization and globalization on the conceptual features of the modern state and the position of national constitutions. Particularly, she deals with an issue of unconstitutionality of the constitutional law in the legal system of the Slovak Republic, focusing on the issue of overruling the constitution and the material core of the constitution. She teaches courses on Theory of State and Law and Rhetoric for Lawyers.
She spent research stay at the Universities of Austria and Germany. lectured at the Paris London University of Salzburg and the University of Bayreuth. Marta participates in research of the Vega grant projects, was awarded by National Scholarship Program and the Scholarship Program of the SPP Foundation.
