Jiří Přibáň

Jiří Přibáň (born 25 August 1967 in Prague) is a Czech academic, author, translator and essayist specializing in the areas of philosophy of law, sociology and politology. He was promoted to a professorship at the Charles University in Prague in 2002. During his career, he published several books.[1] He regularly appears as a political commentator in the mainstream Czech media, such as Czech Television,[2] Hospodářské noviny,[3][4] and Právo.[5][6] He also contributed to Journal of Law and Society and to the BBC World Service. He was a member of the Program Council of the Forum 2000 conference.[7]

Jiří Přibáň at A Night of Philosophy in Prague (2016)

Přibáň graduated from Charles University in Prague in 1989 and joined Cardiff Law School[8] staff in 2001. He is noted for applying ideas of Niklas Luhmann's system theory on philosophy of law.

In February, 2013, he refused the offer of the President Miloš Zeman to become a constitutional judge.[9]

Selected publications
  • Sociologie práva (1996, 2001), SLON (Sociologické nakladatelství), ISBN 80-85850-18-4 (in Czech)
  • Hranice práva a tolerance (1997), SLON, ISBN 9788085850284 (in Czech)
  • Rule of Law in Central Europe: the reconstruction of legality, constitutionalism and civil society in the post-Communist countries (1999), Ashgate/Dartmouth, ISBN 9781840147193
  • Disidenti práva (2001), SLON, ISBN 9788086429007 (in Czech)
  • Právo a politika konverzace (2001), G plus G, ISBN 9788086103365 (in Czech)
  • Systems of Justice in Transition: Central European Experiences Since 1989 (2003), Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754623175
  • Dissidents of law: on the 1989 revolutions, legitimations, fictions of legality and contemporary version of the social contract, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot (2002) p. 244 ISBN 0754622843
  • Legal Symbolism: on law, time and European identity. Ashgate/Aldershot (2007) ISBN 0754670732
  • The Self-Referential European Polity, its legal context and systemic differentiation: theoretical reflections on the emergence of the EU's political and legal autopoiesis. European Law Journal, 15 (4) (2009) pp. 442–461
  • The Juridification of European Identity, Its Limitations and the Search of EU Democratic Politics. Constellations, 16 (1) (2009) pp. 44–58
  • From 'Which Rule of Law?' to 'The Rule of Which Law?': Post-Communist Experiences of European Legal Integration. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 1 (2) (2009) pp. 337–358
  • Multiple Sovereignty: on Europe's Self-Constitutionalization and Legal Self-Reference. Ratio Juris, 23 (1) (2010) pp. 41–64
  • Obrana ústavnosti (2014), SLON, ISBN 9788074191756 (in Czech)

References
  1. "Jiří Přibáň" (in Czech). Portál české literatury. Archived from the original on 6 July 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  2. "Jiří Přibáň teoretik práva, Cardiff Law School" (in Czech). Czech Television. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  3. "Jiří Přibáň: Klaus není velezrádce, ale ústavu porušil" (in Czech). Hospodářské noviny. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  4. "Okamurovi a Bobošíkové nepřikládám žádnou váhu, tvrdí právní filozof Přibáň" (in Czech). Hospodářské noviny. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  5. "Jiří Přibáň: O státu aneb Úvaha povolební" (in Czech). Novinky.cz. 7 February 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  6. "Jiří Přibáň: Dítě války, oběť míru?" (in Czech). novinky.cz. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  7. "Jiří Přibáň". Forum 2000. Archived from the original on 13 July 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  8. Hekrdla, Martin (11 June 2012). "České ticho po pěšině" (in Czech). Týden. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  9. Třeček, Čeněk (13 February 2013). "Zeman už vybírá nové ústavní soudce. Přibáň nabídku odmítl". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). iDNES. Retrieved 5 April 2013.


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