Prof. JUDr. Alexander Bröstl, Csc is an alumni of the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (1976). He defended his rigorous thesis (JUDr.) on topic: G. W. F. Hegel – On State and Law, at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava (1977). As an external researcher (1979-1984), he continued his studies at the Institute of the State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (supervisor: Ján Bakič), where he defended his dissertation thesis On the Contexts of Hegel’s Philosophy of Law. After the proposal at the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, in 1987 he was appointed as an assitant professor in the field of theory of state and law. After receiving a scholarship from the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Socialist Republic, he studied Chinese language and Chinese law at Fu-tan University in Shanghai in 1987-1989. From December 1989 to March 1990 he worked as a researcher at the Institute of the State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Since 1 April 1990 he has been working at the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. As a scholar of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), he spent the academic year 1990/1991 at the University of Nuremberg-Erlangen, focusing on state and legal philosophy under supervision of Professor. Dr. Reinhold Zippelius. After presenting a habilitation thesis in 1997, he became a habilitated assistant professor in the field of theory of state and law. Meanwhile, he spent a research stay at Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg under Prof. Dr. Jochen Frowein as a scholarship awardee. In 2001, he successfully graduated an inaugural lecture at the Faculty of Law of the Trnava University of Trnava and in March 2002 he was appointed as a professor of state theory and law. He worked as a Vice-Dean for Scientific Research (1991), Dean of the Law Faculty (1994-1997) and Vice-President for Foreign Affairs and Legislation (2007 – 2011) at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice.
Prof. JUDr. Alexander Bröstl, Csc. is the author of important monographs, articles and studies in the field of theory of law, legal philosophy and constitutional law in national and international press and journals. He has attended many research stays at universities in and scientific institutions abroad (Germany, USA, China, Ireland, Austria, Sweden, Poland, Iceland). Recently, he is a president of the Slovak section of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR), member of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages for the Slovak Republic in Strasbourg, a member of International Association of Legislation, a member of the editorial board of a journal – Právny obzor, the editorial board of a journal Justičná revue, the editorial board of Slovenian Law Review. At present, he is in the position of Director of the Institute of the Legal Theory of Gustav Radbruch at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, a chairman of the study program in Theory and History of Law., chairman of the commission for defense of dissertation, habilitation and inauguration thesis in Theory and History of Law. Previously, he served as a justice of the Constitutional Court in the years 2000- 2007, member of the World Executive Committee of IVR, a commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, member of the editorial boards of international professional journal Ratio Juris – An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, international law journal ARSP (Archiv für Rechts- and Sozialphilosophie (Stuttgart). He speaks German, Russian, English, Chinese and French.
Currently, he is dealing with a theory of state, a theory of law, a history of political and legal thinking, a constitutional law, a rhetoric for lawyers, basics of the methodology of scientific work, jurisprudence (in English for candidates and foreign students). In the field of research he also deals with topics of democracy, rule of law and a theory of legal argumentation.
