Martin KRYGIER

Martin Krygier is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales. He studied philosophy, politics, and law (at Sydney University), and his doctorate is in the history of ideas. In 1995-96, he was Visiting Fellow at the Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study, where he participated in a focus group on the political psychology of post-communism. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun. He has been invited to lecture in universities in North America, Great Britain, and Europe. He recently became chairman of the editorial board of East Central Europe - L'Europe du Centre Est, a journal published in Budapest.
His work is interdisciplinary and he has published several books and some 70 papers in a number of areas: among them, politics, law and society after communism; political and legal philosophy; sociology of law; the history of legal and political thought. His work has been translated into French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish Romanian, and Spanish. Apart from academic publications, he also writes for journals of public debate. In 1997, he was invited to deliver the Boyer lectures (an annual series of six radio lectures) for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. These lectures appeared as a book, Between Fear and Hope. Hybrid Thoughts on Public Values.
He was co-editor (with Eugene Kamenka) of Bureaucracy: The Career of a Concept (Edward Arnold, London; St. Martin's Press, New York, 1979). He edited Marxism and Communism. Posthumous Reflections on Politics, Society, and Law, (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Rodopi, Amsterdam 1994). He is co-editor, (with Dr Adam Czarnota) of The Rule of Law after Communism, (Ashgate, UK, 1999), and with Robert Kagan and Kenneth Winston, of the forthcoming Legality and Community. The Intellectual Legacy of Philip Selznick, (Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).