Baka, Anna Eirini

Anna Irene Baka is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Her work focuses on legal and political philosophy, collective identity, constitutional theory, and comparative legal philosophy. She advances comparative legal philosophy as a distinct subfield within the philosophy of law and integrates legal philosophy, ethics, logic, philosophy of language, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and cross-cultural thought. She teaches and conducts research at the Institute for the Interregional Study of Constitutionalism and contributes to the ERC-funded project RECONCILE on identity constitutionalism. 

She previously held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at Harvard University and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, leading the EU-funded project The ‘Right’ in Human Rights, which ranked in the top one percent of proposals in 2020 and examined Aristotelian and Neo-Confucian foundations for EU–China dialogue on justice and rights.

She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Hong Kong, an LL.M. from the Free University of Brussels, and an LL.B. from the University of Athens, supported by the Hellenic National Scholarship. 

Her publications include Self-Determination Beyond Liberal Legalism: Ethics, Law and the Politics of Justice (Bloomsbury, 2025) and From Passion to Reason: Aristotle and the Foundations of Rights (contracted with Edward Elgar, forthcoming). She is co-editor of The Phenomenology of Law and Normativity (Springer, 2024) and Foundations of Justice: Chinese and Western Perspectives on Law, Ethics, and Governance (under review).

Before full-time academia, she served seven years as a senior human rights lawyer at the Greek National Commission for Human Rights. She has taught jurisprudence and human rights at several universities, has published with leading academic presses, and has presented at major international institutions. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the China: History and Civilization series (Crete University Press), co-founder of the Chinese-Greek Philosophy Forum and the Hellenic Association for Chinese Studies, and serves on multiple editorial boards. She works in Greek, English, French, and Italian, converses in Mandarin, has working competence in Ancient Greek, Latin, and Classical Chinese, and is learning Czech.

Her work promotes a philosophically grounded, ethically engaged, and globally informed approach to law and politics.