Pavel Holländer graduated in law in 1976. Since then he worked at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava at the Department of Theory of State and Law as an Internal Candidate, since 1979 as Assistant Professor and from 1988 to February 1993 as Associate Professor ( except of September – December 1989, when he worked in the Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences). In 1992 and 1993, he was awarded by the Humboldt Foundation’s scholarship at the Law School of the University of Kiel. In May 1995, he was appointed to teh position of a professor at the Charles University in Prague, in a field of Theory and Philosophy of Law. He has been a member of the Learned Society in Czech Republic (since 2003) and has been a member of the Scientific Councils of the Universities and their Faculties of Law, editorial boards of both domestic and foreign scientific journals.
From 1993 to 2013, he served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, of which from 2003 to 2013 as Vice-Chairman of the Constitutional Court. From 2013 to 2016, he worked as a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Pan-European University in Bratislava.
In his professional work he focuses mainly on the issues of legal theory and philosophy of law, legal logic, theory of state and constitutional law, the relation of art and law as well as medical law. He has lectured at conferences on various aspects of these fields, lectured at foreign universities (eg at the universities of Kiel, Cologne, Regensburg, Dresden, Heidelberg, Zurich, Vienna, Salzburg, Graz, Frankfurt, Budapest); has published a number of professional publications – books, studies and articles (a large part of which in Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Russia, the United Kingdom, Spain, the USA and Argentina). Moreover, he translates the legal-philosophical literature of the most prominent authors. Through many years of judicial practice, he was the author of many influential judgments issued by the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic.
