Dr Barbara Havelková of the University of Oxford gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Women on Company Boards: the Value of Equality Meets the Principle of Subsidiarity" on 22 November 2017 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). Barbara Havelková is the Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. She teaches EU Law, public law, human rights, comparative equality law and feminist jurisprudence. Her research concentrates on legal regulation of gender during State Socialism and in post-communist transition in Central Europe and on comparative and European anti-discrimination law. Barbara completed her first degree in law at the Charles University in Prague, and also holds an LL.M. from Europa-Institut of Saarland University and a DPhil from Oxford. She was previously a lecturer and fellow at the University of Cambridge and visited several law schools as a guest researcher, including Harvard University and University of Michigan as a Fulbright scholar and the NYU as an Emile Noël Fellow. Barbara acts as an advisor to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on issues of gender and law. For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/