Yr Athro Jiri Priban
Professor of Law
Ysgol y Gyfraith a Gwleidyddiaeth
- priban@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 6819
- 3.06b, Adeilad y Gyfraith, Rhodfa'r Amgueddfa, Caerdydd, CF10 3AX
Jiří Přibáň graduated from Charles University in Prague (1989) where he was appointed professor of legal theory, philosophy and sociology in 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, The Flemish Academy in Brussels and University of New South Wales, Sydney. Jiří Přibáň has published extensively in the areas of social theory and 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 Czech and international media.
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
| Date | Title | Event |
|---|---|---|
| January 2009 | Methodology, What Methodology? | The Province of Jurisprudence Democratised, Sheffield University |
| November 2008 | The Metaphor of Divided Sovereignty in the Post-Enlargement Czech Constitutional System | Modernization of Legal Cultures and Constitutionalization Processes in Central and Eastern Europe, European University Institute, Florence |
| November 2008 | More Representation, Less Democracy?: the Lisbon Treaty and the principle of representative democracy | Constitutional Structure of the EU after the Lisbon Treaty, Universitat Erfurt |
| October 2008 | The Prague Spring's Legacy and the Emergence of the Human Rights Discourse in Political Dissent | Light in Shadows: Czechoslovakia in 1968, Toronto, Canada |
| September 2008 | Constitutional Differentiation of the EU | I. World Sociological Forum, Barcelona, Spain |
| September 2008 | Democratic Deficits in the Lisbon Treaty | EU Public Law Summer School, Villa Vigoni, Lake Como, Italy |
| July 2008 | The EU Self-Referential Polity | Research Committee in Sociology of Law Annual Meeting, Milano, Italy |
| May 2008 | The EU and Its Borders after the Lisbon Treaty | European Visions: The Czech-French Parliamentary Colloquium, The Senate of Parliament of the Czech Republic, Prague |
| January 2008 | More Representation, Less Democracy? The Lisbon Treaty and the principle of representative democracy | Constitutional Structure of the EU after the Lisbon Treaty, University Erfurt |
| November 2003 | European Constitution-Making, Political Identity and its Central European Reflections | Implications of enlargement for the rule of law and constitutionalism in post-communist legal orders, Florence, European University Institute |
| October 2003 | Law and Political Culture of Czechoslovakia | Politics and Culture in Transition, Prague, New York University Office |
| October 2003 | European constitution-making and legal transplants in Central Europe | Law Importation and Legal Transplants, Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Science |
| May 2003 | The European Demos in Search of Itself | International Critical Theory conference |
| June 2002 | Restitutions, Reparations and Temporality of Justice | Property Restitutions and Historical Justice, Krakow |
| June 2002 | Communist Jurisprudence: an Ideologiekritik | Legal Theory in Central Europe Between 1948-89, Prague |
| May 2002 | The Rule of Law and Politics of Dissent | Law and Society Association Confernce, Vancouver |
| April 2002 | Retroactivity in Law and Historical Justice | Law, Time and Reconciliation, Edinburgh |
| February 2002 | Constitutional Symbolism and Political Discontinuity | The Rule of Law Transformations, Florence |
2018
- Priban, J. 2018. Rozpad statu. In: Chmel, R. and Stehlik, M. eds. Moje Ceskoslovensko [My Czechoslovakia]. [Moje Ceskoslovensko]. Prague: Academia, pp. 179-188.
- Priban, J. 2018. Constitutional Imaginaries and Legitimation: on potentia, potestas, and auctoritas in societal constitutionalism. Journal of Law and Society 45(S1), pp. s30-s51., article number: 3. (10.1111/jols.12118)
- Priban, J. 2018. Societal constitutions in transnational regimes: an introduction. Journal of Law and Society 45(S1), pp. s1-s4., article number: 1. (10.1111/jols.12101)
- Priban, J. 2018. Zakonnost a legitimita: nezbytna, ale nemozna [Legality and Legitimacy: indispensable, yet impossible]. In: Agha, P. ed. Lidska prava v mezikulturnich perspektivach [Human Rights in Intercultural Perspectives]. [Lidska prava v mezikulturnich perspektivach]. Prague: Academia, pp. 139-150.
2017
- Priban, J. 2017. Constitutional sovereignty in post-sovereign Europe in crisis: A Central European perspective. In: Motoc, I., Albuquerque, P. P. and Wojtyczek, K. eds. New Developments in Constitutional Law:Essays in Honour of Andras Sajo. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, pp. 355-368.
- Priban, J. 2017. Politics of public knowledge in dealing with the past: post-communist experiences and some lessons from the Czech Republic. In: Belavusau, U. and Gliszczynska-Grabias, A. eds. Law and Memory. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 195-215., (10.1017/9781316986172)
- Priban, J. 2017. A sociology of Legal Distinctions: Introducing contemporary interpretations of classic socio-legal concepts. Journal of Law and Society 44(S1), pp. 1-18., article number: 1.
- Priban, J. 2017. Pulling down walls of certainty [published in Czech: Bořit zdi samozřejmosti: k úmrtí Zygmunta Baumana). Czech Sociological Review 53(1), pp. 121-126.
2016
- Priban, J. 2016. Resisting fear: on dissent and the solidarity of the shaken in contemporary European and global society. In: Tava, F. and Meacham, D. eds. Thinking After Europe: Jan Patocka and Politics. Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 39-56.
- Priban, J. 2016. The concept of self-limiting polity in EU constitutionalism: a systems theoretical outline. In: Priban, J. ed. Self-Constitution of European Society: Beyond EU Politics, Law and Governance. Applied Legal Philosophy Routledge, pp. 37-65.
- Priban, J. 2016. Introduction: on Europe’s crises and self-constitutions. In: Priban, J. ed. Self-Constitution of European Society: Beyond EU Politics, Law and Governance. Applied Legal Philosophy Routledge, pp. 1-10.
- Priban, J. ed. 2016. Self-Constitution of European Society: Beyond EU politics, law and governance. Applied Legal Philosophy. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Priban, J. 2016. On legal symbolism in symbolic legislation: a systems theoretical perspective. In: van Klink, B., van Beers, B. and Poort, L. eds. Symbolic Legislation Theory and Developments in Biolaw. Legisprudence Library Vol. 4. Springer, pp. 105-121.
2015
- Priban, J. 2015. The concept of law in global societal constitutionalism. In: Cowan, D. and Wincott, D. eds. Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies Palgrave, pp. 57-79.
- Priban, J. ed. 2015. Lidská práva: (ne)smysl české politiky? [Human rights - (non)sense of Czech politics?]. [Lidská práva: (ne)smysl české politiky?]. Prague: Sociologické nakladatelství SLON.
- Priban, J. 2015. Constitutional sovereignty in post-sovereign jurisprudence of the Czech Constitutional Court: from the Lisbon judgments to the Landtová Ultra Vires controversy. In: Bobek, M. ed. Central European Judges Under the European Influence: The Transformative Power of the EU Revisited. EU Law in the Member States Hart, pp. 323-348.
- Priban, J. 2015. Sovereignty in post-sovereign society: A systems theory of European constitutionalism. Applied Legal Philosophy. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Priban, J. 2015. Asking the sovereignty question in global legal pluralism: from “weak” jurisprudence to “strong” socio-legal theories of constitutional power operations. Ratio Juris 28(1), pp. 31-51. (10.1111/raju.12065)
- Priban, J. 2015. The semantics of constitutional sovereignty in post-sovereign “new” Europe: A case study of the Czech Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence. International Journal of Constitutional Law 13(1), pp. 180-199. (10.1093/icon/mov008)
- Priban, J. 2015. Politika verejneho poznania a pravnej spravodlivosti pri vyrovnavani se s minulostou: postkomunisticke skusenosti a nedavne ponaucenia z Ceskej Republiky. In: Kvasničková, A. ed. Pamat v Transdisciplinarnej Perspektive. Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, pp. 30-59.
- Priban, J. and Rusnakova, K. eds. 2015. Apotheosis, Apocalypse, Apocryphon: Deified Nations, Deified Art. Walther König.
- Priban, J. 2015. Apotheosis now?!. In: Priban, J. and Rusnakova, K. eds. Apotheosis, Apocalypse, Apocryphon: Deified Nations, Deified Art. Walther König, pp. 17-24.
- Priban, J. and Rusnakova, K. 2015. Introduction. In: Priban, J. and Rusnakova, K. eds. Apotheosis, Apocalypse, Apocryphon: Deified Nations, Deified Art. Walther König, pp. 11-16.
- Priban, J. 2015. The concept of reflexive justice in liquid society. Sociologia del Diritto 42(3), pp. 15-33. (10.3280/SD2015-003002)
- Schwartz, G., Priban, J. and Severo Rocha, L. 2015. Sociologia sistemico-autopoietica das constituicoes. Livraria Do Advogado Editora.
2014
- Priban, J. 2014. Obrana ústavnosti aneb česká otázka v postnacionální Evropě (In defense of constitutionalism: on the "Czech Question" in post-national Europe). [Obrana ústavnosti aneb česká otázka v postnacionální Evropě]. Sociologické aktuality. Prague: Sociologické nakladatelství SLON.
- Priban, J. 2014. Polity as constitutional law's community: on the expressive function and symbolism of national and transnational constitutions. In: Nobles, R. and Schiff, D. eds. Law, Society and Community: Socio-Legal Essays in Honour of Roger Cotterrell. Ashgate, pp. 95-112.
2013
- Priban, J. 2013. Book Review/Response: Paul Blokker, Jiri Priban and Bogusia Puchalska on civic constitutionalism. [Online]. Oxford University Press. Available at: http://www.iconnectblog.com/2013/09/book-reviewresponse-paul-blokker-jiri-priban-and-bogusia-puchalska-on-civic-constitutionalism.
- Priban, J. 2013. The self-referential semantics of sovereignty: a systems theoretical response to (post)sovereignty studies. Constellations 20(3), pp. 406-421. (10.1111/1467-8675.12046)
- Priban, J. 2013. Pictures of Czech Postmodernism. KANT Publishing.
- Priban, J. 2013. Lid versus ústava: systémová kritika pojmu ústavní odpovědnosti. In: Aleš, G. and Pavel, ?. eds. Odpovědnost V Demokratickém Právním Státě. Prague: Univerzita Karlova, pp. 33-42.
- Priban, J. 2013. A Sociological Critique of ‘Socialist Jurisprudence’: on Podgorecki’s contribution to the study of totalitarian law and society. Societas/Communitas 15(1), pp. 183-192.
2012
- Priban, J. 2012. Constitutionalism as Fear of the Political? A comparative analysis of Teubner’s Constitutional Fragments and Thornhill’s A Sociology of Constitutions. Journal of Law and Society 39(3), pp. 441-471. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2012.00592.x)
- Priban, J. 2012. On the social theory of restorative justice. In: Miers, D. and Aertsen, I. eds. Regulating Restorative Justice: A Comparative Study of Legislative Provision in European Countries. Studies in Criminology and Forensic Sciences Vol. 2. Verlag fuer Polizeiwissenschaft, pp. 14-28.
- Priban, J. 2012. Desiring a Democratic European Polity: The European Union Between the Constitutional Failure and the Lisbon Treaty. In: Blanke, H. and Mangiameli, S. eds. The European Union After Lisbon: Constituitonal Basis, Economic Order and External Action. Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp. 71-91., (10.1007/978-3-642-19507-5_4)
- Priban, J. 2012. Medzi pravnou a politickou sebareferenciouo: o semantickej diferenciacii suverenity v debate medzi Kelsenom a Schmittom [Between Legal and Political Self-Reference: on the semantic differentiation of sovereignty in the Kelsen-Schmitt Debate]. In: Procházka, R. and Káčer, M. eds. De arte boni et aequi: pocta k životnému jubileu Alexandry Krskovej. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, pp. 117-139.
- Priban, J. 2012. Sebareferencna semantika a genealogia suverenity: europske skusenosti, globalne zmeny [The Self-Referential Semantics and Genealogy of Sovereignty: European Experiences, Global Changes]. In: Procházka, R. and Káčer, M. eds. Exemplo Ducti. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, pp. 117-132.
2011
- Priban, J. 2011. Self-reference of the constitutional state: a systems theory interpretation of the Kelsen-Schmitt debate. Jurisprudence 2(2), pp. 309-328. (10.5235/204033211798716853)
- Priban, J. 2011. Obrazy české postmoderny [Pictures of Czech Postmodernity]. [Obrazy ceske postmoderny]. Prague: KANT.
- Priban, J. and Holländer, P. eds. 2011. Právo a dobro v ústavní demokracii: Polemické a kritické úvahy [The Right and Good in Constitutional Democracy]. Sociologicke aktuality. Prague: SLON-Sociologicke nakladatelstvi.
- Priban, J. 2011. Lesk a bída právního pozitivismu [We are all positivists, now]. In: Priban, J. and Holländer, P. eds. Právo a dobro v ústavní demokracii: Polemické a kritické úvahy. Sociologicke aktuality Prague: SLON-Sociologicke nakladatelstvi, pp. 27-34.
- Priban, J. 2011. O dobru a spravedlnosti: odpověď Pavlu Holländerovi [On Good and Justice: a reply to Pavel Holländer]. In: Priban, J. and Holländer, P. eds. Právo a dobro v ústavní demokracii: Polemické a kritické úvahy. Sociologicke aktuality Prague: SLON-Sociologicke nakladatelstvi, pp. 42-47.
2010
- Priban, J. 2010. Constituting the heterarchy of European constitutionalism in the EU’s new member states. In: Febbrajo, A. and Sadurski, W. eds. Central and Eastern Europe After Transition: Towards a New Socio-legal Semantics. Studies in Modern Law and Policy Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 13-34.
- Priban, J. 2010. 'Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society' by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos [Book Review]. Modern Law Review 73(5), pp. 893-897. (10.1111/j.1468-2230.2010.00823_2.x)
- Priban, J. 2010. Legal flexibility, governance and differentiated integration: on functional differentiation of EU law and politics. In: Dyson, K. H. F. and Sepos, A. eds. Which Europe? The Politics of Differentiated Integration. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 24-38.
- Priban, J. 2010. Multiple sovereignty: on Europe's self-constitutionalization and legal self-reference. Ratio Juris 23(1), pp. 41-64. (10.1111/j.1467-9337.2009.00443.x)
- Priban, J. 2010. Mathieu Deflem: Sociology of Law: Visions of a Scholarly Tradition [Book Review]. Czech Sociological Review 46(3), pp. 478-480.
2009
- Priban, J. 2009. 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), pp. 337-358. (10.1017/S1876404509003376)
- Priban, J. 2009. 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), pp. 442-461. (10.1111/j.1468-0386.2009.00472.x)
- Priban, J. 2009. The juridification of European identity, its limitations and the search of EU democratic politics. Constellations 16(1), pp. 44-58. (10.1111/j.1467-8675.2009.00520.x)
- Priban, J. 2009. Symbolism of the spirit of the laws: a genealogical excursus to legal and political semiotics. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique 22(2), pp. 179-195. (10.1007/s11196-009-9101-0)
- Priban, J. 2009. On the social theory of restorative justice. International Journal of Restorative Justice 15(1), pp. 33-54.
- Finkielkraut, A.et al. 2009. The EU: with or without borders?. In: Rupnik, J. and Berthon, J. eds. Dialogues sur l’Europe. Prague: Centre Français de Recherche en Sciences Sociales (CEFRES), pp. 95-100.
2007
- Breda, V. 2007. Constitutional identities in a liquid society. In: Priban, J. ed. Liquid Society and Its Law. Applied Legal Philosophy Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 153-170.
- Priban, J. 2007. Legal symbolism: on law, time and European identity. Applied Legal Philosophy. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing.
2005
- Priban, J. 2005. The European Constitution-Making, Political Identity and Its Central European Reflections. European Law Journal 11(2), pp. 135-153. (10.1111/j.1468-0386.2005.00254.x)
- Priban, J. 2005. European Union constitution-making, political identity and Central European reflections. European Law Journal 11(2), pp. 135-153. (10.1111/j.1468-0386.2005.00254.x)
2004
- Priban, J. 2004. Reconstituting Paradise Lost: Temporality, Civility and Ethnicity in Post-Communist Constitution-Making. Law & Society Review 38(3), pp. 407-432. (10.1111/j.0023-9216.2004.00052.x)
2003
- Priban, J. 2003. Legalist fictions and the problem of scientific legitimation. Ratio Juris 16(1), pp. 14-36. (10.1111/1467-9337.00222)
- Priban, J. 2003. Stealing the natural language: the fiction of the social contract and legality in the light of Nietzsche's philosophy. Cardozo Law Review 24(2), pp. 663-682.
- Priban, J., Roberts, P. I. and Young, J. R. eds. 2003. Systems of justice in transition: Central European experiences since 1989. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.
- Priban, J., Young, J. R. and Kerner, A. eds. 2003. Current legal issues in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom: collection of papers: workshop 2002. Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze.
- Priban, J. 2003. Constitutional justice and retroactivity of laws in postcommunist central Europe. In: Priban, J., Roberts, P. I. and Young, J. R. eds. Systems of Justice in Transition: Central European Experiences Since 1989. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 29-49.
- Priban, J. and Roberts, P. I. 2003. The central European systems of justice in transition: introductory remarks. In: Priban, J., Roberts, P. I. and Young, J. Y. eds. Systems of Justice in Transition: Central European Experiences Since 1989. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 1-10.
2002
- Priban, J. 2002. Sharing the paradigms? Critical legal studies and the sociology of law. In: Banakar, R. and Travers, M. eds. An Introduction to Law and Social Theory. Oxford: Hart, pp. 119-133.
- Pribán, 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.
- Priban, J. 2002. Judicial power vs. democratic representation: the culture of constitutionalism and human rights in the Czech legal system. In: Sadurski, W. ed. Constitutional Justice, East and West: Democratic Legitimacy and Constitutional Courts in Post-Communist Europe in a Comparative Perspective. Law and Philosophy Library Vol. 62. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, pp. 373-394.
- Priban, J. 2002. The legacy of political dissent. Socio-Legal Newsletter(37), pp. 7-7.
- Priban, J. 2002. Sociologie prava: vyvoj a trendy po roce 1989. Sociologicky Casopis 38(1-2), pp. 79-87.
- Priban, J. 2002. Opening the gaps in legality: a comparative study of the politics of dissent in postcommunist Europe and South Africa. De Iure(2), pp. 253-270.
2001
- Priban, J. 2001. La législation entre révolution et État de droit: le cas des lustrations [Legislation between revolution and rule of law: the case of lustration]. In: Mink, G. ed. Mémoires du Communisme en Europe Centrale [Remembering Communism in Central Europe]. Cahiers du CEFRES Vol. 26. Prague: CEFRES, pp. 41-69.
- Nelken, D. and Priban, J. eds. 2001. Law's new boundaries: the consequences of legal autopoiesis. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Priban, J. 2001. Legitimation between the noise of politics and the order of law. Presented at: Consequences of the Autopoietic Law Theory, Cardiff, UK, March 2000 Presented at Priban, J. and Nelken, D. eds.Law's New Boundaries: The Consequences of Legal Autopoiesis. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing pp. 104-122.
- Priban, J. 2001. Právo a politika konverzace: texty o postmoderních nejistotách, spravedlnosti v právu a politické pameti. Prague: GplusG.
- Priban, J. 2001. Disidenti práva: o revolucích roku 1989, fikcích legality a soudobé verzi spolecenské smlouvy spolecenské smlouvy. Edicní rada Post Vol. 5. Prague: Sociologicke Naklacdedatelstvi.
- Priban, J. 2001. Moral and political legislation in constitutional justice: a case study of the Czech Constitutional Court. The Journal of East European Law 8(1), pp. 15-34.
- Priban, J. 2001. Legalism with a human face: developments in the Czech legal system and theory after 1989. East Central Europe 28(1), pp. 35-50. (10.1163/187633001X00038)
1998
- Priban, J. 1998. Suverenita, právo a legitimita v kontextu moderní filosofie a sociologie práva. Prague: Karolinum.
- Priban, J. 1998. Doing what comes naturally, or a walk on the wild side?: Remarks on Stanley Fish's anti-foundationalist concept of law, its closure and force. Law and Critique 9(2), pp. 249-270.
1997
- Priban, J. 1997. Beyond procedural legitimation: legality and its ‘infictions’. Journal of Law and Society 24(3), pp. 331-349. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.1997.tb00001.x)
