JUDr. Ľubomír Zlocha, PhD. graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where in 2012 he obtained the degree of Mgr. In 2016, he completed his internal doctoral studies and was awarded a PhD. degree in commercial, financial and economic law.
He is currently working as an independent researcher at the Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He is the author of several professional and scientific articles in the field of commercial law and civil law. In his publications he focuses mainly on unfair competition, advertising, protection of personality rights and freedom of expression. He has co-authored several collections of court decisions, namely Case Law on Unfair Competition (Iura Edition, 2013), Decisions on Advertising (Iura Edition, 2013) Case Law on Freedom of Expression and Protection of Personality (Wolters Kluwer, 2014) and, following this, in 2015, Case Law on Non-pecuniary Injury (Wolters Kluwer). He reviewed the second edition of the Commentary to the Press Law (C. H. Beck, 2021).
He edited several proceedings of domestic scientific conferences. He is the co-author of the first Slovak commentary on the Advertising Act (Wolters Kluwer, 2021). In addition to his scientific activities, he has been actively practicing law since 2012. He devotes a significant part of his law practice to providing legal services in the field of media law. He represents one of the largest publishers in Slovakia. He is a member of the Press and Digital Council of the Slovak Republic, which is the executive body of the Association for the Protection of Journalistic Ethics in the field of ethical self-regulation of journalists.
