Karel Beran

Karel Beran (born 1975 in Prague) is a Czech Professor of Law, a specialist in the concepts of legal personhood and juristic person.
== Life and education ==
He graduated in the Czech Republic from the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague (2000) and received the degrees of Doctor of Law in 2001 and Ph.D. dissertation in 2005. His dissertation titled “Právnické osoby veřejného práva” (Juristic Persons of Public Law) was published by Linde, Prague, in 2006. In 2011, he successfully defended his habilitation thesis titled “Pojem osoby v právním smyslu” (The Concept of Person in Law) published by Leges in 2012 and was appointed associate professor in the field of Theory of law, Philosophy of law and Sociology of law of Law. On 17 June 2020, the President of the Czech Republic appointed him full professor in the field of Theory, Philosophy and Sociology of Law, based on a proposal presented by the Scientific Board of Charles University|Charles University in Prague.
== Career ==
Charles University Faculty of Law Since 2003, he has been a member of the Department of Legal Theory and Legal Doctrines at the Faculty of Law at Charles University, where he teaches Legal Theory, Juristic persons, and Legal Information Systems. Between 2014 and 2018, he served as a vice-dean for graduate studies (Master’s) at the Faculty of Law. From 2006 to 2009, he has practiced law as an attorney in Prague and from 2016 to 2018 worked as a team leader on a project named “Legal Transactions and Legal Responsibility of Juristic Persons”, and was also the lead author of the related Monograph “Právní jednání a odpovědnost právnických osob po rekodifikaci českého soukromého práva” (Legal Transactions and Legal Responsibility of Juristic Persons after Recodification of Czech Private Law), published by Wolters Kluwer Czech Republic in Prague in 2018, and “Artificial Legal Entities: Essays on Legal Agency and Liability”, published by Wolters Kluwer in Prague, Warsaw, Bratislava and Budapest in 2019 Subsequently, as a single author, he published a monograph titled “The Concept of Juristic Person” (Wolters Kluwer: Prague, Warsaw, Bratislava and Budapest, 2020).
== Research and study stay abroad ==
As a visiting researcher, Karel Beran worked and studied at universities in Europe, the United States, and Australia. He completed a long-term study visit at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA), supported by Fulbright-Masaryk scholarship programme in the academic year 2016/2017, a two-semester scholarship stay at the Law Faculty of the University of Salzburg (Austria) within doctoral studies in 2002/2003, and medium-term study visits at Free University of Berlin, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft (Germany) in 2012, at Griffith Law School in Brisbane (Australia) in 2007 and at Cardiff Law School (UK) in 2006. He also completed many short-term study visits, e.g. at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Universität Salzburg Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät (Austria), and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Juristische Fakultät (Germany).
== Field of research ==
Karel Beran has published voluminously on issues relating to law of persons and its theoretical foundations. He has long been interested in the status of persons in law, especially that of juristic persons. In this regard, his work focuses on issues related to Legal person, legal capacity, theory of juristic persons, theory of juridical acts, and corporate liability. In the area of Legal Philosophy, Karel Beran’s research addresses Legal norm (e.g. in terms of their mandatory or non-mandatory nature) and the issues of temporal effects of legal norms, including the problem of retroactivity. He has authored or co-authored nine Monograph and over 70 Scholarly article and papers published in the Czech Republic and abroad. He has also co-authored university textbooks on legal theory, substantive Civil law (legal system), and criminal law.
== Selected Publications in English and German ==
The Concept of Juristic Person (Prague – Warsaw – Bratislava – Budapest: Wolters Kluwer, 2020)
* BERAN, Karel. The Concept of Juristic Person. 1. vyd. Prague – Warsaw – Bratislava – Budapest: Wolters Kluwer, 2020, 259 s. ISBN 978-83-8107-952-5.
* BERAN, Karel (lead author); ČECH, P., DVOŘÁK, B., ELISCHER, D., HRÁDEK, J., JANEČEK, V., KÜHN, Z., ONDŘEJEK, P. Artificial Legal Entities: Essays on Legal Agency and Liability. Prague – Warsaw – Bratislava – Budapest: Wolters Kluwer, 2019, ISBN 978-80-7598-082-3.
* BERAN, Karel; ELISCHER, David. “Has "Strict Liability" Disappeared from Czech Law Simply to Give Way to a General "Duty to Compensate Harm". Review of Central and East European Law. Vol. 44, 2019 (1). p. 58-90. ISSN: 1573-0352.
* BERAN, Karel. The Person and the Personhood from the Perspective of the U. S. American Legal Doctrine. The Lawyer quarterly, Vol.9, 2019(1), 13-24. ISSN 1805-840X.
* BERAN, Karel; GERLOCH, Aleš. Die normative Bedeutung der Interpretationsregeln in der tschechischen Rechtsordnung. In Jabloner, Clemens; Jakab, Andräs; Kirchmair, Lando; Pfersmann, Otto; Wiederin, Ewald (ed.) Scharfsinn im Recht : Liber Amicorum Michael Thaler zum 70. Geburtstag. 1. vyd. Wien: Jan Sramek Verlag KG, 2019, s. 111-127. ISBN 978-3-7097-0209-3.
* BERAN, Karel. Die Konstruktion der Person in der Reinen Rechslehre und in der tschechischen Rechtsordung. In: JABLONER, Clemens - KUKLÍK, Jan - OLECHOWSKI, Thomas. Hans Kelsen in der tschechischen und internationalen Rechtslehre. 1 vyd. Wien: MANZ, 2018, Schftenreihe des Hans Kelsen-Instituts, Band 39, s. 81-95. ISBN 978-3-214-14760-0. BERAN, Karel. How Criminal Liability of Juristic Persons Depends on the Concept of Juristic Persons in Private Law. European Criminal Law Review (EuCLR), roč. 5, 2015, č. 2. s. 161 -194. ISSN 2191-7442.
* Artificial Legal Entities: Essays on Legal Agency and Liability (Prague – Warsaw – Bratislava – Budapest: Wolters Kluwer, 2019) BERAN, Karel. The person at law from the point of view of pure legal science. The Lawyer quarterly, Vol.3, 2013(1), 29-42.
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* JELÍNEK, Jiří; BERAN, Karel. Why the Czech Republic does not yet recognize corporate criminal liability: a description of unsuccessful law reforms. In: PIETH, Mark; IVORY, Radha (ed.). Criminal Responsibility as Corporate Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Criminal Liability Laws. Ediční řada: GENTIUM: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice. ISBN-10: 9400706731, Vydavatel Springer, Dordrecht (Holandsko) 2011, str. 333-355.
Category:1975 births
Category:Czech educators
Category:People from Prague
Category:Czech law specialist