Jiří Přibáň

Jiří Přibáň (born 25 August 1967 in Prague) is a Czech-British academic, author, translator, and essayist who was appointed as a justice of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic on 25 June 2024.

He attended the Dvořák High School in Kralupy nad Vltavou and then the Faculty of Law of Charles University (1985–1989).

He is a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic, Academy of Social Sciences, and Academia Europaea.

Since 1993, Přibáň regularly visited Cardiff University, where he became a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Society.

Over time, he engaged in both research and teaching at Cardiff Law School, achieving professorship there in 2006.

In 2014, he co-founded the Centre of Law and Society at Cardiff University, which he led until his appointment as a Justice of the Constitutional Court.

[3] In English, his notable works include a trilogy of monographs on constitutional semantics: Legal Symbolism (2007),[4] Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Society (2015), and Constitutional Imaginaries (2022),[5] as well as Dissidents of Law (2002),[6] which explores political dissent in communist regimes and its theoretical and philosophical significance.

As an independent expert, he has prepared various studies and reports for constitutional and international institutions, such as the House of Lords of the UK Parliament or the United Nations.

On 25 June 2024, the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, appointed him a Justice of the Constitutional Court.

Dissidents of law: on the 1989 velvet revolutions, legitimations, fictions of legality and contemporary version of the social contract.

Sociologia sistemico-autopoietica das constituicoes [A Sociology of Autopoietic Systems of Constitutions] Livraria Do Advogado Editora [in Portuguese].