Michal Lipták studied law and philosophy at the University of Trnava, where he also received a doctorate in philosophy in 2013. He works as a lawyer focusing on intellectual property law and industrial rights. At the same time, since 2016, he has been working at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where he works on phenomenology, philosophy of art and political philosophy. In addition, he writes opinions in SME, Denník N and Kapitál.