Kysela Jan

Prof. JUDr., Ph.D., DSc.
Born 15 September, 1974 in Prague

• Constitutional law, constitutional theory, political science
• Member of the Learned Society since 2022

Educational and professional preparation

• Law Faculty of the Charles University: 1993–1998 (Mgr.)
• Ph.D. Program „Theory, Philosophy and Sociology of Law“ – Law Faculty of the Charles University: 1998–2001 (Ph.D.)
• 2006: Associate Professor, Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University
• 2016: Doctor of Social Sciences and Humanities (DSc.)
• 2017: Professor of Constitutional Law and Theory of State     

Employment and academic positions

• Law School of the Charles University (since 2001), acting as professor of constitutuonal law and head of department of political science and sociology  
• Office of the Senate of the Czech Parliament (since 1997), acting as secretary of the Standing Commission on the Czech Constitution and Parliamentary Procedures   

Membership in selected domestic scientific bodies

• Scientific Council of Law Faculty of the Charles University
• Boards of various Ph.D. programms of Law Faculty and Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University and Law Faculty of the University of František Palacký

Notable awards

• 2015: Lawyer of the Year: Civil Rights and Constitutional Law (committee of legal professions)
• 2021: Bronze Medal of Antonín Randa (the Czech Lawyers Union)    

Selected publications

• Dělba moci v kontextu věčného hledání dobré vlády. Praha: Leges, 2019. (Division of Powers in Context of Eternal Search for Good Governance)
• Ústava mezi právem a politikou. Úvod do ústavní teorie. Praha: Leges: 2014. (Constitution between Law and Politics)
• Právo na odpor a občanskou nepolušnost. Brno: Doplněk, 2. vyd. 2006. (Right of Resistance and Civil Disobediance)  
• Zákonodárství bez parlamentů. Praha: Právnická fakulta UK, 2006. (Legislation without Parliaments)
• Dvoukomorové systémy: teorie, historie a srovnání dvoukomorových parlamentů. Praha: Eurolex Bohemia, 2004. (Bicameral Systems: Theory, History and Comparing of Bicameral Parliaments)

More information

• Personal page (Law Faculty of the Charles University)