Role
Adela is a lecturer at Nottingham Law School. Adela is the deputy course leader for Law with Psychology course for the LLB. Adela is a module leader on the range of undergraduate modules including commercial law and insurance law. She is also a module leader for the law of contract on the PGDL full time and distance learning course as well as a module leader for the LLM module of International Dispute Resolution. Adela teaches on all of the modules she leads.
Career overview
Prior to joining NTU as a lecturer, Adela worked in various law firms in Czech Republic as a legal assistant as well as legal advisor. She has worked as a legal assistant in the UK and as an hourly paid lecturer at NTU while finishing her PhD sponsored by the AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership titled ‘Effective enforcement of international commercial transactions by UK businesses in a fragmenting transnational institutional environment.’
Research areas
Adela’s research focuses on the enforcement of international commercial transactions by UK businesses in a fragmenting transnational environment. Her research is looking into socio-legal strategy for ensuring an effective enforcement of transactional deals in global trading networks in the context of the UK’s uncertain future relationship with the EU legal order. Adela has presented at many conferences including international conference in Prague.
Publications
Kratenova A, 'Does Britain Want The Best And The Brightest? A Brexit Question' (2019) 53 The Law Teacher