Renáta Šínová primarily specialises in family law and civil procedural law. With experience in academia, guardianship judicial proceedings and legislation, she focuses mainly on matrimonial law, the regulation of relationships to children, and legal issues related to the resolution of serious family situations (child custody, emancipation, domestic violence). She also focuses on the area of enforcement and co-ownership disputes.
She graduated from Faculty of Law, Palacký University in Olomouc and subsequently achieved Ph.D. degree from Masaryk University in Brno. During her master´s studies she received financial support from French government and studied at Université Saint Martin D´Heres in Grenoble. Later, in 2008, she gained Visiting Scholar status at School of Law, Berkeley in California. She taught also at University of San Diego, Université D´Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand) or Université La Rochelle.
In addition to practising law as an attorney, she has also been an assistant professor for civil procedural law and family law at Civil Law and Civil Procedural Law Department at Palacký University´s Faculty of Law in Olomouc since 2001, when she finished her Master´s degree. From 2012 to 2013 she was a member of the Czech Ministry of Justice´s Committee for civil procedural law harmonisation with the New Civil Code, from 2012 2014 then a member of Committee for civil procedural law´s recodification in Slovakia. In 2016 she was appointed a member of Committee for civil law harmonisation in Slovakia. For a long period, she has lectured at the Judicial Academy of the Czech Republic and acted as an external consultant to the Office for International Legal Protection of Children. Since 2023 Renáta has been a member of the working committee of the Legislative Council of the Government.
Apart from many articles she is the leading author of civil procedure law textbooks (C.H.Beck, 2014 and 2015), co-author of commentaries to Civil Procedure Code (Wolters Kluwer, 2009 and C.H.Beck, 2009) and author of extensive passages in the volume IV of the Big commentary to the Civil Code (Melzer, Tégl, Leges 2016). She is a lead co-author of a series of monographs focused on family law institutes which are published by Leges (Marriage, Divorce, Family Law Proceedings, Parental Responsibility).
