Jiří Přibáň

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

Jiří Přibáň (born 25 August 1967 in Prague) is a Czech academic, author, translator, and essayist who has served since 2024 as a justice of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. Přibáň specialises in sociology, politology and philosophy of law, and was awarded professorship in the discipline by the Charles University in Prague in 2002.

Over his career, Přibáň published several books, and he regularly appears as a political commentator in the mainstream Czech media, such as Czech Television, Hospodářské noviny, and Právo. 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.

Přibáň graduated from Charles University in Prague in 1989 and joined Cardiff Law School 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.

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)
• In Quest of History. On Czech Statehood and Identity . Karolinum Press (2019) ISBN 978-80-246-4267-3. Originally published in Czech as Hledání dějin. O české státnosti a identitě (2018).

External links

• Jiri Priban's home page