Researcher, Lecturer, and Vice Dean, Faculty of Law, Trnava University

Michaela Moravčíková is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Trnava University. She studied theology and law in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic. Her work focuses primarily on issues of freedom of conscience and religion, issues of conscientious objection, relations between the state and churches, the legal status of religious minorities, and religion and politics (with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe in a historical context). In 1997 she began working as a researcher at the Institute for State-Church Relations in Bratislava, and she served as its director from 1999 to 2011. Since 2011, she has been engaged in research and teaching at Trnava University, where she has been director of the Institute for Legal Issues of Religious Freedom since 2012. Dr. Moravčíková also lectures regularly in Poland. She was previously a member of the expert working group that devised a new model for financing churches and religious societies in the Slovak Republic, and she now serves as a member of the expert working group on agreements between the Slovak Republic and the Holy See.