Professor Jiri Priban

2025

• Přibáň, J. 2025. European constitutional imaginaries: a socio-legal perspective. European Law Open 4 (2), pp.387-401. (10.1017/elo.2025.3)
• Přibáň, J. 2025. European constitutional imaginaries: rejoinder. European Law Open 4 (2), pp.420-423. (10.1017/elo.2025.7)
• Priban, J. and Thomas, P. 2025. The Journal of Law and Society at 50 / The Centre of Law and Society at 10: an introduction to the series of academic events at Cardiff University in the 2023/24 academic year. Journal of Law and Society 52 (S1), pp.S3-S6. 14676478. (10.1111/jols.70001)

2024

• Priban, J. 2024. At the garden party of moths and butterflies: a Foreword to Havel's Keywords and I3.maginaries. In: Danaher, D. and Williams, K. eds. Václav Havel’s Meanings: His Key Words and Their Legacy. Václav Havel Series Prague: Karolinum. , pp.16-28.
• Priban, J. 2024. European constitutional imaginaries: On pluralism, calculemus, imperium and communitas. In: Komárek, J. ed. European Constitutional Imaginaries: Between Ideology and Utopia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.22-43. (10.1093/oso/9780192855480.003.0002)
• Priban, J. 2024. From state politics to global societal constitutions: A review note on Scamardella’s Etsi Constitutio non daretur. [Le costituzioni civili nel mondo transnazionale Dalla politica statale alle costituzioni sociali globali: una nota sul libro di Scamardella Etsi Constitutio non daretur] Le costituzioni civili nel mondo transnazionale. Sociologia Del Diritto 50 (2), pp.199-206. (10.54103/1972-5760/22501)
• Přibáň, J. 2024. Les libertés académiques dans les sociétés démocratiques. In: Hertaux, J. ed. Pensées Captives: Répression et défense des Libertés Académiques en Europe Centrale et Orientale (et au-dela) Suivi de Trente Ans de Recherches au CEFRES de Prague. Prague: CODEX85. , pp.43-52.
• Priban, J. 2024. Postnational constitutionalism: Europe and the time of law. Jurisprudence 15 (1), pp.441-446. (10.1080/20403313.2023.2296815)
• Priban, J. 2024. Sázka na svobodu [A gamble of liberty]. Prague: Karolinum.

2023

• Priban, J. 2023. Constitutional democracy’s civic and social dimensions. On the Czech presidential election. [Online].Vienna: CEU. Available at: https://revdem.ceu.edu/2023/02/01/constitutional-democracys-civic-and-social-dimensions-on-the-czech-presidential-election/.
• Priban, J. 2023. Constitutional Imaginaries: a socio-legal perspective of political and societal constitutions. In: Hyden, H. et al., Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law: An Homage to Reza Banakar. Oxford: Bloomsbury Hart Publishing. , pp.417-428. (10.5040/9781509959419.ch-031)
• Priban, J. 2023. Constitutionalism, populism, and the imaginary of the authentic polity: a socio‐legal analysis of European public spheres and constitutional demoicratization. Journal of Law and Society 50 (S1), pp.S26-S44. (10.1111/jols.12434)
• Priban, J. 2023. Imaginary of the imperium of prosperity and economic constitutionalism in the EU: A socio-legal perspective of spontaneity of the common market and its limits. In: Skordas, A. , Halmai, G. and Mardikian, L. eds. Economic Constitutionalism in a Turbulent World. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. , pp.38-63.
• Priban, J. 2023. Introduction: Political constitutions in transnational society: introducing socio‐legal and interdisciplinary perspectives. Journal of Law and Society 50 (Supp 1), pp.S1-S6. (10.1111/jols.12440)
• Priban, J. 2023. The eternal return to Central Europe. In: Kubicek, T. ed. A Kidnapped West: The Laboratory of Twilight. Brno: Moravian Library. , pp.91-109.
• Priban, J. 2023. The Liberation of Illiberal Democracy: On Limits of Democratization after the Authoritarian Backlash. In: Bobek, M. et al., Transition 2.0: Re-establishing Constitutional Democracy in EU Member States. Baden-Baden: Nomos. , pp.33-58. (doi.org/10.5771/9783748914938)
• Priban, J. et al. 2023. Diggers of theoretical principles and healers of constitutional value pluralism: on the particular function of university legal education. In: Jirsa, J. ed. On Liberal Education and the Autopoiesis of Universities. Prague: Karolinum. , pp.109-128.
• Priban, J. and Hvížďala, K. 2023. Hledání smyslu [In Quest of Meaning]. Prague: Karolinum.

2022

• Belov, M. et al., 2022. Imaginary of the rule of law as a force of societal transition: Central and East European lessons from European (dis)integration. In: Belov, M. ed. Rule of Law in Crisis: Constitutionalism in a State of Flux. Routledge Research in Public Law London: Routledge. , pp.67-88. (10.4324/9781003349501-6)
• Priban, J. 2022. Od sociologie práva k ústavnímu pluralismu: Eugen Ehrlich a teorie společenského konstitucionalismu [From the sociology of law to the constitutional pluralism: Eugen Ehrlich and theory of societal constitutionalism]. Pravnik [The Lawyer] 161 (5), pp.396-410.
• Priban, J. 2022. Věčný návrat do střední Evropy [The eternal return to Central Europe]. In: Kubíček, T. ed. The Tragedy of the West: A Laboratory of the Twilight. [Únos Západu aneb laboratoř soumraku]. Brno: Moravská zemská knihovna. , pp.105-122.

2021

• Priban, J. 2021. Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism.  [Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism]. London: Routledge.
• Priban, J. 2021. Constitutional theory and the imaginary of human rights. In: Urbanik, J. and Bodnár, A. eds. Law in a Time of Constitutional Crisis. Warsaw: C.H. Beck. , pp.555-566.
• Priban, J. 2021. How to handbook the Sociology of Law as a borderland science. [Online].Oxford: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Available at: https://frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/borderland-science/.
• Priban, J. 2021. Learning and living legal pluralism. [Online].Oxford: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Available at: https://frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/learning-and-living-legal-pluralism/.
• Priban, J. 2021. The paradoxical value of sovereignty in post-sovereign society. In: Santos Campos, A. and Cadilha, S. eds. Sovereignty as Value. London: Rowman & Littlefield. , pp.91-108.
• Priban, J. and Hvížďala, K. 2021. Hledání odpovědnosti [In Quest of Responsibility].  [Hledání odpovědnosti]. Prague: Karolinum.

2020

• Priban, J. 2020. A social theory of constitutional imaginaries: beyond the unity of topos-ethnos-nomos and its European context. In: Belavusau, U. and Gliszczynska-Grabias, A. eds. Constitutionalism under Stress: Essays in Honour of Wojciech Sadurski. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.175-190.
• Priban, J. 2020. Introduction to research handbook on the sociology of law. In: Priban, J. ed. Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law. [Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law]. Research Handbooks in Law and Society Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. , pp.1-5. (10.4337/9781789905182.00006)
• Priban, J. 2020. Normativity at large: on moral absolutism, legal relativism and social systems anti-normativism. In: Bezemek, C. , Potacs, M. and Somek, A. eds. Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 2: Normativism and Anti-Normativism in Law. Vol. 2, Oxford: Hart Publishing. , pp.91-112. (10.5040/9781509935932.ch-004)
• Priban, J. 2020. Sociology of the rule of law: power, legality and legitimacy. In: Priban, J. ed. Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law. [Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law]. Research Handbooks in Law and Society Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. , pp.110-123. (10.4337/9781789905182.00017)
• Priban, J. and Hvizdala, K. 2020. In quest of democratic values and identities in central European constitutionalism: on the post-1989 histories and politics in the Czech Republic. In: Mercescu, A. ed. Constitutional Identities in Central and Eastern Europe. Berlin: Peter Lang. , pp.37-57. (10.3726/b16593)

2019

• Priban, J. 2019. Collective memory, constitutional polity and differentiation of modern society. In: Corrias, L. and Francot, L. eds. Temporal Boundaries of Law and Politics: Time Out of Joint. London: Routledge. , pp.149-169.
• Přibáň, J. 2019. Constitutional values as the normalisation of societal power: from a moral transvaluation to a systemic self-valuation. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 11 (2-3), pp.451–459. (10.1007/s40803-019-00111-4)
• Priban, J. 2019. Justiz als gesellschaftliches Über-Ich. Zur Position der Rechtsprechung in der Demokratie (The Judiciary as the Super-Ego of Society: On the Position of Legal Discourse in Democracy) [Book Review]. Kantian Review 24 (3)(10.1017/S1369415419000232)
• Priban, J. 2019. The nation state's legitimation in post-national society: a social systems perspective of values in legality and power. In: Sadurski, W. , Sevel, M. and Walton, K. eds. Legitimacy: The State and Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.137-157.
• Priban, J. and Hvizdala, K. 2019. In quest of history: on Czech statehood and identity. Vaclav Havel Series Prague/Chicago: Karolinum Press/University of Chicago Press.

2018

• 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. 3. (10.1111/jols.12118)
• Priban, J. 2018. Constitutional sovereignty in post-sovereign Europe in crisis: A Central European perspective. In: Motoc, I. , Albuquerque de, 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. 2018. Rozpad statu. In: Chmel, R. and Stehlik, M. eds. Moje Ceskoslovensko [My Czechoslovakia]. [Moje Ceskoslovensko]. Prague: Academia. , pp.179-188.
• Priban, J. 2018. Societal constitutions in transnational regimes: an introduction. Journal of Law and Society 45 (S1), pp.s1-s4. 1. (10.1111/jols.12101)
• Priban, J. 2018. Sociological jurisprudence: juristic thought and social inquiry [Book Review]. Journal of Law and Society 45 (2), pp.330-337. (10.1111/jols.12097)
• Priban, J. 2018. The defence of constitutionalism: the Czech question in post-national Europe. Vaclav Havel Series Prague/Chicago: Karolinum Press/University of Chicago Press.
• Priban, J. 2018. The European Union under transnational law: a pluralist appraisal [Book Review]. European Law Review 43 (5), pp.795-797.
• Priban, J. 2018. The sociological concept of EU constitutional pluralism. In: Davies, G. and Avbelj, M. eds. Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. , pp.154-177.
• 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]. Prague: Academia. , pp.139-150.
• Priban, J. and Hvížďala, K. 2018. Hledání dějin: o české státnosti a identitě [In Quest of History: on Czech statehood and identity].  [Hledání dějin: o české státnosti a identitě]. Prague: Karolinum.

2017

• 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. 1.
• Priban, J. 2017. Anything to appreciate? a sociological view of the margin of rights and the persuasive force of their doctrines. In: Agha, P. ed. Human Rights Between Law and Politics: The Margin of Appreciation in Post-national Contexts. Oxford: Hart Publishing. , pp.89-110.
• Priban, J. 2017. Philip Selznick (1919-2010). In: Kritzer, G. ed. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Wiley(10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos0900)
• 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. 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. 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. 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.
• 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.

2015

• 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. 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. 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. 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. 2015. Sovereignty in post-sovereign society: A systems theory of European constitutionalism. Applied Legal Philosophy Farnham: Taylor and Francis. (10.4324/9781315610085)
• 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. 2015. The concept of reflexive justice in liquid society. Sociologia del Diritto 42 (3), pp.15-33. (10.3280/SD2015-003002)
• 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. and Rusnakova, K. 2015. Introduction. In: Priban, J. and Rusnakova, K. eds. Apotheosis, Apocalypse, Apocryphon: Deified Nations, Deified Art. Walther König. , pp.11-16.
• 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. 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.
• 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. Lid versus ústava: systémová kritika pojmu ústavní odpovědnosti. In: Aleš, G. and Pavel, Š. eds. Odpovědnost V Demokratickém Právním Státě. Prague: Univerzita Karlova. , pp.33-42.
• Priban, J. 2013. Pictures of Czech Postmodernism. KANT Publishing.
• 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)

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
• Priban, J. 2011. Obrazy české postmoderny [Pictures of Czech Postmodernity].  [Obrazy ceske postmoderny]. Prague: KANT.
• 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)

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. 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. Mathieu Deflem: Sociology of Law: Visions of a Scholarly Tradition [Book Review]. Czech Sociological Review 46 (3), pp.478-480.
• 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. '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)

2009

• 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.
• 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. On the social theory of restorative justice. International Journal of Restorative Justice 15 (1), pp.33-54.
• 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. 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. 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)

2007

• Priban, J. 2007. Legal symbolism: on law, time and European identity. Applied Legal Philosophy Farnham: Ashgate Publishing.

2005

• 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)
• 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)

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. 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. 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. 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

• 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. 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.
• 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.
• Priban, J. 2002. Sociologie prava: vyvoj a trendy po roce 1989. Sociologicky Casopis 38 (1-2), pp.79-87.
• Priban, J. 2002. The legacy of political dissent. Socio-Legal Newsletter (37), pp.7-7.

2001

• Priban, J. 2001. Disidenti práva: o revolucích roku 1989, fikcích legality a soudobé verzi spolecenské smlouvy spolecenské smlouvy. Edicní rada Post Vol. 5Prague: Sociologicke Naklacdedatelstvi.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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. Published in: Priban, J. and Nelken, D. eds. Law's New Boundaries: The Consequences of Legal Autopoiesis. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. , pp.104-122.
• 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. Právo a politika konverzace: texty o postmoderních nejistotách, spravedlnosti v právu a politické pameti. Prague: GplusG.

1998

• 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.
• Priban, J. 1998. Suverenita, právo a legitimita v kontextu moderní filosofie a sociologie práva. Prague: Karolinum.

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)