Jirí Pribán, visiting faculty member from Cardiff Law School, UK, graduated from Charles University in Prague in 1989 and joined Cardiff University law faculty in 2001. Pribán received his LLD in 2001 and was appointed visiting professor of legal philosophy and sociology at Charles University by President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel in November 2002. He has also served as a visiting professor or scholar at European University Institute in Florence, New York University (Prague Office), UC Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Pretoria, and University of New South Wales, Sydney. Pribán has published extensively in the areas of sociology of law, legal philosophy, constitutional and European comparative law, and human rights theory. He is an editor of the Journal of Law and Society and a regular contributor to the BBC World Service, the Czech TV, newspapers, and other periodicals. At USF, he teaches Constitutionalism in the European Union.