Professor Jiri Priban
Position: Professor
School: Law
Tel: +44 (0)29 208 76819
Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74097
Email: Priban@cf.ac.uk
Ext: 76819
Point of contact:
Linda Bailey
Introduction
Jirí Pribán graduated from Charles University in Prague in 1989 and joined Cardiff University as a full-time member of staff in 2001. Jirí received his LLD in 2001 and was appointed visiting professor of legal philosophy and sociology at Charles University by President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel in November 2002. He was also visiting professor or scholar at European University Institute in Florence, New York University (Prague Office), University of California in Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Pretoria, and University of New South Wales, Sydney. Jirí Pribán has published extensively in the areas of sociology of law, legal philosophy, constitutional and European comparative law, and theory of human rights. He is an editor of the Journal of Law and Society and a regular contributor to the BBC World Service, the Czech TV, newspapers and other periodicals.
Selected Publications
- Legal Symbolism: on law, time and European identity,
Priban J, Ashgate, Aldershot (2007) ISBN 07546 70732 - Dissidents of law: on the 1989 revolutions, legitimations, fictions of legality and contemporary version of the social contract,
Priban J, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot (2002) pp244 ISBN 0754622843 - Multiple Sovereignty: on Europe's Self-Constitutionalizatoin and Legal Self-Reference,
Priban J, Ratio Juris, 23 (1) (2010) 41-64 - The Juridification of European Identity, Its Limitations and the Search of EU Democratic Politics,
Priban J, Constellations, 16 (1) (2009) 44-58 - The Self-Referential European Polity, its Legal Context and Systemic Differentiation: Theoretical Reflections on the Emergence of the EU's Legal and Political Autopoiesis,
Priban J, European Law Journal, 15 (4) (2009) 442-461 - From 'Which Rule of Law?' to 'The Rule of Which Law?': Post-Communist Experiences of European Legal Integration,
Priban J, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 1 (2) (2009) 337-358
