Přibáň Jiří

Prof. JUDr., DrSc.
Born August 25, 1967 in Prague

• Philosophy, theory and sociology of law
• Member of the Learned Society since 2022

Educational and professional preparation

• 1985–1989 – Law Studies, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague
• 1989 – Ph.D. in law, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague
• 2001 – LL.D. (Drsc.) in Philosophy, Theory and Sociology of Law, Charles University, Prague
• 2002 – Professor of Philosophy, Theory and Sociology of Law, Charles University, Prague
• 2006 – Professor of Law, Cardiff University

Employment and academic positions

• 1990 – Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague
• 1992 – Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague
• 1997 – Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague
• 2002 – Professor of Philosophy, Theory, and Sociology of Law, Charles University 
• 2006 – Professor, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University 

Membership in selected domestic scientific bodies

• Member of the Academic Board of the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno

Membership and positions in selected international organizations and societies

• Socio-Legal Studies Association
• Research Committee on Sociology of Law
• The International Society of Public Law
• International Academy of Comparative Law 

Notable awards

• The Socio-Legal Theory and History Book Prize by the Socio-Legal Studies Association, 2016, for the book Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Society: A Systems Theory of European Constitutionalism (Ashgate, 2015)
• The Dominik Tatarka Prize for the best book of 2013, Slovakia, (member of the team of authors included in the awarded book Odkial a Kam)
• The Hart Socio-Legal Article Prize by the Socio-Legal Studies Association, 2005, for the article ‘Reconstituting paradise lost: temporality, civility and ethnicity in post-communist constitution-making’ (2004) Law and Society Review 38(3), pp. 407–31
• The Josef Hlávka Prize for early career scholars, Prague, the Czech Republic

Selected publications

Monographs:

• Přibáň, J. 2021. Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism. London: Routledge
• Přibáň, J. 2019. In Quest of History: on Czech Statehood and Identity. Rozhovory s K. Hvizdalou]. Prague/Chicago: Karolinum Press/University of Chicago Press 
• Přibáň, J. 2017. The Defence of Constitutionalism. Prague/Chicago: Karolinum Press/University of Chicago Press
• Přibáň, J. 2015. Sovereignty in post-sovereign society: A systems theory of European constitutionalism. Applied Legal Philosophy. London: Routledge
• Přibáň, J., Schwartz, G. and Severo Rocha, L. 2015. Sociologia sistemico-autopoietica das constituicoes [A Sociology of Autopoietic Systems of Constitutions] Livraria Do Advogado Editora [in Portuguese]
• Přibáň, J. 2007. Legal symbolism: on law, time and European identity. Applied Legal Philosophy. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing
• Přibáň, J. 2002. Dissidents of law: on the 1989 velvet revolutions, legitimations, fictions of legality and contemporary version of the social contract. Law, Justice and Power. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing

Edited volumes:

• Přibáň, J. 2020. Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
• Přibáň, J. 2018. Societal Constitutions in Transnational Regimes. Special Supplement of Journal of Law and Society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
• Přibáň, J. ed. 2016. Self-Constitution of European Society: Beyond EU politics, law and governance. Applied Legal Philosophy. Abingdon: Routledge

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