Constitutional Imaginaries

Jiří Přibáň is Professor of Law, Cardiff University, UK. He 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.

• Part I: Constitutional Imaginaries and Transvaluation of ValuesChapter 1: Constitutional Imaginaries: on potentia, potestas and auctoritasChapter 2: Transcendental Apparatus of Constitutional ValuesPart II: Out of the Topos-Ethnos-Nomos Unity Chapter 3: Out of Topos: The Nation State Imaginary in Post-National Society Chapter 4: Out of Ethnos: Imagined Nations and Post-National Rights CultureChapter 5: Out of Nomos: The Circularity of Moral Universalism and Legal Particularism Part III: European Constitutional ImaginariesChapter 6: The Imaginary of Legal PluralismChapter 7: The Imaginary of Administrative CalculemusChapter 8: The Imaginary of Prosperous ImperiumChapter 9: The Imaginary of Mobilised Communitas

'It is an important merit of this book to show that legal and political orders are not the resultof one or more dominating political forces, but of multiple societal forces. This holds true forthe EU legal and political order, too.'Massimo Fichera, book review in Common Market Law Review'Přibáň first investigates the imaginary unity of society and its legal system within the framework of the nation state and then debunks it by offering a way out of this unity of topos (space), ethnos (people), and nomos (the legal order). It is precisely the inquiry into this unity, its problems, and possible alternatives to it that constitutes the main contribution of Pribáň’s thinking as expressed in Constitutional Imaginaries.'Lukáš Lev Červinka, book review in Journal of Law and Society