Law and Sport - My Passion

Autor*innen

• Gerhardt Bubník

Parameter

• Biografien
• Wahre Geschichten

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“A gentleman of British schooling with a biography that would suffice for several lives”. This quote from the book Patriarchs of Czech Advocacy aptly captures the life-story of Gerhardt Bubník. It is good that this exceptional man decided to write his memories and share them with others. Czech journalist Magdalena Sodomkova “I read his war story on the tram, straight from my cell phone and almost forgot to get out. His story could make a Hollywood film.” The Author, Gerhardt Bubnik is a prominent Czech lawyer, and lifetime resident of Prague. He is also a recognized international sport official and organizer. In both areas he has received the highest possible recognitions and awards. He has been inducted into the Czech Law Hall of Fame and received the Golden Badge of Merit from the Czech Bar Association. He has received the Olympic Order and the Prize for the Fight against Doping in Sport from the International Olympic Committee, and he was elected as an ISU Honorary Member by the Congress of the International Skating Union. As a sport official, he attended nine Olympic Winter Games starting with Innsbruck 1976 through Sochi 2014. A law graduate from Charles University in Prague, Gerhardt Bubník was the first Czechoslovak lawyer to earn and be awarded a Master of Laws (LL.M.) Degree from the Harvard Law School in the USA. This unique 1968 achievement is described in detail in the Book, along with the anguish of the Author over the 1968 concurrent Russian military invasion of Czech territory to curtail the Prague Spring reforms instituted under the Alexander Dubcek regime. He has written an autobiography filled with human interest stories detailing successively - his youth under Nazi occupation during WWII, and how the holocaust affected him and his family; - revelations of brave, compassionate acts of assistance to his family by individual Germans – acts that were later reciprocated in-kind; - his education and work as a lawyer in Communist Czechoslovakia and during the Cold War, and, in general, daily life behind the Iron Curtain; - study and life in the USA, first at a US legal-system familiarization course at Princeton, and then at Harvard; his perceptions thereof and his impressions at that time of the U.S.A.; - his professional work as an international commercial lawyer in the free Czech society and the world after 1989; - 30 years of judging top international competitions in Figure Skating; - his dedicated fight against doping in sport on both national and international levels; - his role in the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan scandal at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer; - his work as an ISU Official Investigator of the judging scandal involving French and Russian Figure Skating Judges at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City; - the work and problems of the International Skating Union during the period 1996 – 2010; - exceptional and exciting experiences from his travels around the globe; - meeting Royalty, Heads of State and Prime Ministers; and - interesting legal and doping cases narrated often with great humor. Readers in the U.S. will find many of the above features of specific interest. Readers of the Czech language version have declared the Book is so interesting – and exciting - that they could not part with it until they finished reading it. The graphic and captivating storytelling is accompanied by more than 160 unique photographs, some depicting contemporary documents sent from Nazi concentration camps.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Einband: Paperback