Biografisk notat

JirA PribA!n, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic and Lecturer, Cardiff Law School, University of Wales, UK and David Nelken, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Legal Institutions and Social Change, University of Macerata, Italy. Jiri Priban is associate professor of legal philosophy and sociology at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, and lectures at the Cardiff Law School, University of Wales. He is author of the book 'Dissidents of Law'(Ashgate, 2001) and co- edited 'The Rule of Law in Central Europe' (Ashgate, 1999, with James Young). He also published numerous articles in the field of sociology of law, legal philosophy, constitutionalism, human rights and post-totalitarian societies. David Nelken is Distinguished Research Professor of Law in the Department of Law at the University of Wales at Cardiff. He previously taught legal and social theory at the University of Edinburgh and at University College, London. David Nelken has published widely in the fields of legal and social theory, sociology of law and criminology. Recently his main focus has been on comparative sociology of law (with Dartmouth he published Comparing Legal Cultures in 1997, and Contrasting Criminal Justice in 2000) He is a distinguished scholar of the American Sociological Association, Trustee of the Law and Society Association, Vice President of the RCSL (International Sociological Association), on the editorial board of 14 scientific journals in Italy, UK, USA and elsewhere. Dr Nelken is the recipient of the ISA-RCSL Adam PodgA(3)recki Prize 2011, for outstanding achievements in socio-legal research, in the form of distinguished and outstanding lifetime achievement.