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Culture Documents
2018
Table of contents
Education .......................................................................................................................... 2
Academic qualifications and awards .................................................................................... 2
Principal appointments ....................................................................................................... 2
Visiting appointments......................................................................................................... 2
Honours and distinctions .................................................................................................... 2
Publications ....................................................................................................................... 3
BOOKS ........................................................................................................................................ 3
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS ........................................................................................................... 3
BOOK REVIEWS ........................................................................................................................... 6
COMMENTS, NOTES, ETC. ........................................................................................................... 6
INTERVIEWS AND MEMOIRS ........................................................................................................ 7
Work in progress ............................................................................................................... 7
Editorships ......................................................................................................................... 7
Editorial boards .................................................................................................................. 7
Other advisory boards ........................................................................................................ 8
Conferences on my work ................................................................................................... 8
Major public lectures.......................................................................................................... 8
Other invited presentations ................................................................................................ 9
Research students supervised ............................................................................................ 12
Research students examined ............................................................................................. 14
Research funding ............................................................................................................. 15
Courses taught ................................................................................................................. 15
Public policy contributions ............................................................................................... 17
Administrative and management roles ............................................................................... 17
Committee service ........................................................................................................... 17
Electoral boards and appointment committees ................................................................... 18
Examination boards.......................................................................................................... 18
Personal interests .............................................................................................................. 18
JOHN GARDNER | DETAILED CV updated to 01.05.2018
Education
Glasgow Academy, Glasgow (1970-82)
New College, Oxford (1983-7)
Inns of Court School of Law, London (1987-8)
Principal appointments
Prize Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (1986-91)
CUF Lecturer in Law, University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Law, Brasenose
College, Oxford (1991-96)
Reader in Legal Philosophy, King’s College, London (1996-2000)
Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of University
College, Oxford (2000-16)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, with the title of Professor of Law and
Philosophy in the University of Oxford (2016- )
Visiting appointments
Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School, New York NY (2000)
Georges Lurcy Visiting Professor, Yale Law School, New Haven CT (2002-3, 2004-5)
Visiting Fellow, RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra ACT (2003, 2006)
Visiting Lecturer, Catholic University of Brussels (2005, 2006)
Visiting Professor, University of Texas School of Law, Austin TX (2006)
Visiting Professor, Philosophy Department, and Old Dominion Visiting Fellow, Council of
the Humanities, Princeton University, Princeton NJ (2008)
Visiting Professor, College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT (2008)
Legal Research Foundation Visiting Scholar, University of Auckland (2010)
Fresco Lecturer, Università degli studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy (2010)
J.C. Smith Visiting Scholar, University of Nottingham (2014)
Marc and Beth Goldberg Distinguished Visiting Professor, Cornell University Law School,
Ithaca NY (2015)
Guest Lecturer, Universität Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (2017)
Publications
BOOKS
1. Action and Value in Criminal Law (co-edited with Stephen Shute and Jeremy Horder),
(Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993)
2. Relating to Responsibility: Essays for Tony Honoré on his Eightieth Birthday (co-edited with
Peter Cane), (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2001)
3. Offences and Defences: Selected Essays on the Philosophy of Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford
University Press 2007)
o reviewed in Criminal Law Review, Modern Law Review, Law Quarterly Review, Oxford
Journal of Legal Studies, Ethics, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Res Publica,
Criminal Law and Philosophy, and Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies (book symposium)
o in Spanish as Ofensas y Defensas: Ensayos selectos sobre filosofía del derecho penal (trans
Manrique and Peralta, Madrid: Marcial Pons 2012)
4. Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law by H.L.A. Hart (second edition
with an introduction by John Gardner; Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008)
5. Law as a Leap of Faith: Essays on Law in General (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012)
o reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, American Journal of Jurisprudence,
Cambridge Law Journal, Modern Law Review, Ethics, Law and Philosophy (book
symposium), Jurisprudence (book symposium)
o translation into Spanish forthcoming 2018
6. Kelsen Revisited: New Essays on the Pure Theory of Law (co-edited with Luís Duarte
d’Almeida and Leslie Green), (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2013)
7. From Personal Life to Private Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018)
o reviewed in Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies (pre-publication book symposium)
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
1. ‘Concerning Permissive Sources and Gaps’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 8 (1988), 457
2. ‘Liberals and Unlawful Discrimination’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 9 (1989), 1; reprinted
in Christopher McCrudden (ed), Anti-Discrimination Law (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1991)
3. ‘The Activity Condition in Criminal Law’, in Heike Jung, Heinz Müller-Dietz and Ulfrid
Neumann (eds), Recht und Moral: Beiträge zu einer Standortbestimmung (Baden Baden: Nomos
Verlag, 1991)
4. ‘Making Sense of Mens Rea: Antony Duff’s Account’, (co-author: Heike Jung), Oxford
Journal of Legal Studies 11 (1991), 559
5. ‘Private Activities and Personal Autonomy: At the Margins of Anti-Discrimination Law’, in
Bob Hepple and Erika Szyszczak (eds), Discrimination: The Limits of Law? (London: Mansell
1992)
6. ‘Introduction: The Logic of Criminal Law’, (co-authors: Stephen Shute and Jeremy
Horder) in Shute, Gardner and Horder (eds), Action and Value in Criminal Law (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1993)
7. ‘Freedom of Expression’, in Christopher McCrudden and Gerry Chambers (eds), Human
Rights and Civil Liberties in Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993)
8. ‘Criminal Law and the Uses of Theory’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 14 (1994)
9. ‘Rationality and the Rule of Law in Offences Against the Person’, Cambridge Law Journal 53
(1994), 502
10. ‘Justifications and Reasons’, in Andrew Simester and A.T.H. Smith (eds), Harm and
Culpability (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1996); also in Czech as ‘Ospravedlnéní a
Odüvodnéní’, Pravnik 8 (1996), 705
11. ‘Discrimination as Injustice’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 16 (1996), 353
12. ‘The Purity and Priority of Private Law’, University of Toronto Law Journal 46 (1996), 459
13. ‘On the General Part of the Criminal Law’, in R.A. Duff (ed.), Philosophy and the Criminal
Law: Principle and Critique (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998)
14. ‘On the Ground of her Sex(uality)’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 18 (1998), 167
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15. ‘The Gist of Excuses’, Buffalo Criminal Law Journal 1 (1997), 575; reprinted in Joel Feinberg
and Jules Coleman, Philosophy of Law (8th ed, Belmont: Wadsworth 2008)
16. ‘Crime: in Proportion and in Perspective’, in A.J. Ashworth and M. Wasik (eds.),
Fundamentals of Sentencing Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998); reprinted in Aileen
Kavanagh and John Oberdiek, Arguing About Law (New York: Routledge 2009)
17. ‘Bemerkungen zu den Functionen und Rechtfertigungen von Strafrecht und Strafe’, in Nils
Jareborg, Andrew von Hirsch and Bernard Schünemann (eds), Positive Generalprävention als
letzte Auskunft oder letzte Verlegenheit det Straftheorie (Heidelberg: C.F. Müller Verlag, 1998)
18. ‘Law as a Leap of Faith’, in Peter Oliver, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott and Victor Tadros (eds),
Faith in Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2000)
19. ‘The Wrongness of Rape’ (co-author: Stephen Shute), in Jeremy Horder (ed), Oxford
Essays in Jurisprudence, Fourth Series (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000)
20. ‘The Virtue of Justice and the Character of Law’, Current Legal Problems [2000], 1
21. ‘The Virtue of Charity and its Foils’, in Charles Mitchell and Sue Moody (eds), Foundations
of Charity (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2000)
22. ‘The Mysterious Case of the Reasonable Person’, University of Toronto Law Journal 51
(2001), 273
23. ‘Compassion without Respect? Nine Fallacies in R v Smith’ (co-author: Timothy
Macklem), [2001] Criminal Law Review 623
24. ‘Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts’ in Peter Cane and John Gardner (eds),
Relating to Responsibility: Essays for Tony Honoré (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001); reprinted
in Joel Feinberg and Jules Coleman, Philosophy of Law (8th ed, Belmont: Wadsworth 2008)
25. ‘Provocation and Pluralism’ (co-author: Timothy Macklem), Modern Law Review 64 (2001),
815
26. ‘Reasons’ (co-author: Timothy Macklem) in Jules Coleman and Scott Shapiro (eds), The
Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press
2002)
27. ‘In Defence of Defences’ in Flores Juris et Legum: Festskrift till Nils Jareborg (Uppsala: Iustus
2002)
28. ‘Legal Positivism: 5½ Myths’, American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001), 199; reprinted in
Aileen Kavanagh and John Oberdiek, Arguing About Law (New York: Routledge 2009)
29. ‘Reasons for Teamwork’, Legal Theory 8 (2002), 495
30. ‘The Mark of Responsibility’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 23 (2003), 157
31. ‘No Provocation without Responsibility: A Reply to Mackay and Mitchell’ (co-author:
Timothy Macklem), [2004] Criminal Law Review 213
32. ‘The Legality of Law’, Ratio Juris 17 (2004), 168 (earlier version appeared in Associations 7
(2003), 89)
33. ‘Fletcher on Offences and Defences’, Tulsa Law Review 39 (2004)
34. ‘The Wrongdoing that Gets Results’, Philosophical Perspectives 18 (2004), 53
35. ‘Wrongs and Faults’ in A.P. Simester (ed), Appraising Strict Liability (Oxford: Oxford
University Press 2005); slighly different version in Review of Metaphysics 59 (2005)
36. ‘Backwards and Forwards with Tort Law’ in Joseph Keim-Campbell, Michael O'Rourke
and David Shier (eds) Law and Social Justice (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 2005)
37. ‘Law's Aim in Law’s Empire’ in Scott Hershovitz (ed), Exploring Law's Empire (Oxford:
Oxford University Press 2006)
38. ‘Value, Interest, and Well-Being’ (co-author:Timothy Macklem), Utilitas 18 (2006), 362
39. ‘Complicity and Causality’, Criminal Law and Philosophy 1 (2007), 127
40. ‘Prohibiting Immoralities’, Cardozo Law Review 28 (2007), 2613
41. ‘Some Types of Law’ in Douglas Edlin (ed), Common Law Theory (New York: Cambridge
University Press 2007) (translation into Polish forthcoming in Warsaw Law Review)
42. ‘Reply to Critics’ in John Gardner, Offences and Defences (Oxford: Oxford University Press
2007)
43. ‘“Simply in Virtue of Being Human”: the Whos and Whys of Human Rights’, Journal of
Ethics and Social Philosophy 2 (2008) at http://www.jesp.org/PDF/Gardner.pdf; also in
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71. ‘Some Rule-of-Law Anxieties about Strict Liability in Private Law’, in Lisa Austin, Dennis
Klimchuk (eds), Private Law and the Rule of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014)
72. ‘The Many Faces of the Reasonable Person’, Law Quarterly Review 131 (2015), 563
73. ‘Fifteen Themes from Law as a Leap of Faith’, Jurisprudence 6 (2015), 601
74. ‘Private Authority in Ripstein’s Private Wrongs’, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 14 (2016),
52
75. ‘The Negligence Standard: Political not Metaphysical’, Modern Law Review 80 (2017), 1
76. ‘Reasonable Reactions to the Wrongness of Rape’, Denning Law Journal 29 (2017), 3
77. ‘Dagan and Dorfman on the Value of Private Law’, Columbia Law Review Online 117
(2017), 179
78. ‘Holding On’, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 15 (2017), 182
79. ‘The Opposite of Rape’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 38 (2018), 48
80. ‘Discrimination: The Good, the Bad, and the Wrongful’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
118 (2018), 55
BOOK REVIEWS
The Development of Naturalist Legal Theory by Hilaire McCoubrey, Times Literary Supplement,
28.08.1987
Natural Law Theory edited by Robert George, Times Literary Supplement, 10.07.1992
Act and Crime by Michael Moore, Law Quarterly Review 110 (1994), 496
The Legal Theory of Ethical Positivism by Tom Campbell, King’s College Law Journal 9 (1998)
Punishment, Communication and Community by Antony Duff, Punishment and Society 4 (2002),
496
Criminal Law Theory: Problems of the General Part edited by Stephen Shute and Andrew
Simester, Law Quarterly Review 119 (2003),
Concealment and Exposure by Thomas Nagel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 11.07.2003
Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age by Christopher Kutz, Ethics 114 (2004), 827
A Life of H.L.A. Hart: the Nightmare and the Noble Dream by Nicola Lacey, Law Quarterly
Review 121 (2005), 329
Rhetoric and the Rule of Law by Neil MacCormick, London Review of Books, 09.03.2006
Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law by Douglas Husak, Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews 03.08.2008
The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham, London Review of Books, 08.07.2010
The Boundaries of the Criminal Law edited by A. Duff, L. Farmer, S. Marshall, M. Renzo and
V. Tadros, Law Quarterly Review 127 (2011), 634
Legality by Scott Shapiro, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 08.12.2011 (with Timothy
Macklem)
The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen, Journal of Law, Philosophy and Culture 6 (2011), 241
Born Free and Equal? A Philosophical Inquiry into the Nature of Discrimination by Kasper
Lippert-Rasmussen, Ethics 125 (2015)
Food Law: European, Domestic and International Frameworks by Caoimhín MacMaoláin; plus
The Philosophy of Food edited by David Kaplan, Law Quarterly Review 132 (2016), 161
Complicity and Moral Accountability by Gregory Mellema, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
12.08.2016
The Wrong of Injustice: Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy by Mari Mikkola,
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 14.02.2017
COMMENTS, NOTES, ETC.
‘Section 20 of the Race Relations Act 1976’, Modern Law Review 50 (1987), 345
‘West Midlands PTE v Singh’, Law Quarterly Review 105 (1989), 183
‘Australian Iron and Steel v. Banovic’, Law Quarterly Review 106 (1990), 361
‘On “The Information Society”’, in Karel Schelle and Sona Skulova (eds), Workshop on
Freedom of Information and Protection of Information (Brno: Masaryk University 1995)
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‘Overtaking on the Right’, New Law Journal, 13 October 1995 (with A. Ashworth, R.
Morgan, A.T.H. Smith, A. von Hirsch and M. Wasik)
‘Hurley v Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bi-Sexual Group of Boston’, International Journal of
Discrimination and the Law 1 (1996), 283
‘Neighbouring on the Oppressive’, Criminal Justice 16 (1998), 7 (with A. Ashworth, R.
Morgan, A.T.H. Smith, A. von Hirsch and M. Wasik)
‘Clause 1 - The Hybrid Law from Hell’, Criminal Justice Matters, Spring 1998 (with
Ashworth, Morgan, Smith, von Hirsch and Wasik)
‘Aid, Abet, Counsel, Procure’, in Albin Eser, Barbara Huber, Karin Cornils (eds),
Einzelverantwortung und Mitverantwortung im Strafrecht (Freiburg: Iuscrim 1998)
‘Charitable Status: Back to Basics with a Purpose’, NGO Finance Charity Law Annual
Review 1998, 10
‘Introduction: Can Europe have a Constitution?', King's College Law Journal 12 (2001), 1
(with Mads Andenas)
‘Introduction to Geoffrey Bindman’ in N.Owen (ed), Human Rights, Human Wrongs: the
Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2001 (Oxford:Oxford University Press 2003)
‘Justification, Excuse, and Mitigation in Criminal Law’ in P. Cane and J. Conaghan (eds),
The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008)
‘Introduction’ (co-authors Luìs Duarte d'Almeida and Leslie Green) in Duarte d'Almeida,
Gardner and Green (eds), Kelsen Revisited: New Essays on the Pure Theory of Law (Oxford:
Hart Publishing 2013)
‘Hart, HLA (1907-92)’ in T Gibbons (ed), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Chichester:
Wiley-Blackwell 2014), 1608
INTERVIEWS AND MEMOIRS
Interview in Richard Susskind (ed), The Susskind Interviews: Legal Experts in Changing Times
(London 2005)
Interview in Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen (ed), Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions (New York 2007)
‘Tony Honoré as Teacher and Mentor: a Personal Memoir’ in Boudewijn Sirks (ed) Aspects
of Law in Late Antiquity (Oxford: privately published 2008)
Interview: ‘Putting Legal Philosophy in its Place’, Rivista di Filosofia del Dirrito 1 (2012), 253
Editorships
Legal Theory Today (Hart Publishing book series, general editor 1998-2004)
King’s College Law Journal (general editor 1999-2002)
Oxford Legal Philosophy (OUP book series, editor with L Green and T Endicott 2010- )
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law (annual volume, editor with B Leiter and L Green, 2014- )
Editorial boards
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (1995- )
Legal Theory (1999-2012)
Law and Philosophy (2002- )
Journal of Moral Philosophy (2005- )
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Conferences on my work
Philosophy Programme, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National
University, December 2003 (on selected work about responsibility)
Law School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 2011 (on Offences and Defences)
Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, May 2013 (on Law as a Leap of Faith)
Law School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2016 (on my Private Law book draft)
Wadham College, Oxford, March 2018 (on my work as Oxford Professor of Jurisprudence)
Jonathan Garton, The Regulation of Charities (PhD 2002, University of London, co-
supervisor Charles Mitchell). Jonathan is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick.
Brendan McGurk, The Rule of Law and the Regulatory State (DPhil 2005). Brendan is now a
Barrister at Monckton Chambers.
Shlomit Wallerstein, Permissible Self-Defence, Democratic States and Anti-Democratic Ideologies
(DPhil 2005, co-supervisor Andrew Ashworth). Shlomit became Fellow and Tutor in Law
at St Peter’s College, Oxford, but has now moved into legal practice in Tel Aviv.
Amir Paz-Fuchs, Conditional Welfare (DPhil 2006, co-supervisor Mark Freedland). Amir is
now a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex.
Dan Priel, Law and Intuition (MPhil 2003). Danny is now an Associate Professor at Osgoode
Hall Law School, Toronto.
Michelle Madden Dempsey, Prosecution, Reason and Value: Considering Domestic Violence
(DPhil 2007, co-supervisor Carolyn Hoyle). Michelle is now Professor of Law at Villanova
University School of Law in Villanova, Pennsylvania.
Elisa Holmes, Anti-discrimination Rights Without Equality (MPhil 2003, co-supervisor Joseph
Raz). Elisa is now a Barrister at Eleven Wentworth in Sydney.
Maris Köpcke Tinture, Questions Concerning Legal Validity (MSt 2004, DPhil 2009, co-
supervisor John Finnis). Maris became a fixed-term Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester
College, Oxford, and now teaches at the University of Barcelona.
Prince Saprai, Defending Unjust Enrichment (MPhil 2004, DPhil 2009, co-supervisor Mindy
Chen-Wishart). Prince is now a Senior Lecturer in Laws at University College London.
François Tanguay-Renaud, Emergencies and Criminal Law (MPhil 2006, DPhil 2008).
François is now an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto.
Sameer Singh, Justifying the Duty of Repair in Tort Law (MPhil 2006). Sameer now works as a
consultant at Eden McCallum.
Kate Hofmeyr, Understanding Constitutional Remedial Power (MPhil 2006). Kate is now a
Barrister at Thulamela Chambers in Johannesburg.
Joachim Tan, Liberal Neutrality (DPhil 2007). Destination not known.
Amit Pundik, Statistical Evidence: In Search of a Principle (DPhil 2008, co-supervisor Adrian
Zuckerman). Amit is now a Lecturer in Law at Tel Aviv University.
James Edwards, The Uses and Misuses of Criminal Law (MSt 2009, DPhil 2011, co-supervisor
Andrew Ashworth). James is now Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford.
Luis Duarte D’Almeida, Defences and Defeaters (DPhil 2011). Luis is now Professor in
Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh.
David Winterton, Remedial Issues in Private Law (MPhil 2007, DPhil 2011, co-supervisor
James Edelman). David is a Lecturer in Law at the University of New South Wales.
Matthew Shapiro, The Legitimacy of Anti-Discrimination Law (MPhil 2007, DPhil 2012, co-
supervisor Daniel Butt). Matthew went on to Clerk for Chief Justice John G Roberts in the
US Supreme Court, and is now working as an Associate at Columbia Law School.
Shivprasad Swaminathan, Making Law Matter: Projectivism and Hart’s Normativity (DPhil
2013). Shiv is now an Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School, NCR Delhi.
Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry, Can Social Contract Theory Fully Account for the Moral Status of
Profoundly Mentally Disabled People? (DPhil 2013). Jonas is an Assistant Professor in Law at
the University of British Columbia and will move to a similar position at McGill in 2018.
Raquel Barradas de Freitas, Explaining Meaning: Towards a Minimalist Account of Legal
Interpretation (MSt 2009, DPhil 2014). Raquel is currently a Max Weber Fellow at the
European University Institute.
Joseph Carlsmith, Hypocrisy and Accountability (BPhil 2014). Joseph is now working towards
a PhD in Philosophy at New York University.
Margreet Luth-Morgan, Emotions in Court (DPhil 2015). Margreet is an Assistant Professor
at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Abdallah Salam, Perfect and Imperfect Rights, Duties and Obligations (DPhil 2015, co-
supervisor Alison Hills). Abdallah has just completed his JD at Columbia Law School.
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Alberto Pino-Emhart, Apologies and Damages: The Moral Demands of Tort Law as a Reparative
Mechanism (DPhil 2015). Alberto is now Assistant Professor in Law at the Universidad
Alberto Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile.
Peter Chau, Social Deprivation and Criminal Punishment (DPhil 2015, co-supervisor Dan
McDermott). Peter is now an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong.
Lars Christie, Harming One to Save Another (PhD 2016, University of Oslo, supervised 2015-
16). Lars is now an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oslo and a
Postdoctoral Researcher in Oxford’s Department of Politics.
Sylvia Rich, The Moral Agency of Corporations and its Implications for Criminal Law Theory
(DPhil 2016, co-supervisor Julian Roberts). Sylvia is currently working in policy analysis for
the Government of Canada (first Environment, now Transport).
Margaret O’Brien, Charter Interpretation and a Community’s Constitutional Morality (PhD
2016, McMaster University, supervised 2014-15). Maggie is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in
the Philosophy Department at the University of Edinburgh.
Robert Mullins, Relational Norms (DPhil 2017). Rob is now a Lecturer in Law at the
University of Queensland.
Guy Sela, Torts as Self-defence (DPhil 2017).
Zoë Sinel, An Enquiry into the Philosophical Foundations of the Defendant’s Duty of Restitution in
Unjust Enrichment (MPhil 2008)
James Goudkamp, A Taxonomy of Tort Law Defences (MPhil 2008)
Richard Ekins, The Nature of Legislative Intention (DPhil 2009)
Basil Salman, An Essay on Negative Liberty (MSt 2009); An Analysis of Negative Liberty (DPhil
2016)
Adam Tucker, The Limits of Parliamentary Sovereignty: Constitutional Review and the Unwritten
Constitution (PhD 2009, University of Manchester)
Richard Danbury, The ‘Full Liberty of Public Writers’: Special Treatment of Institutional
Journalistic Speech in English Law (MSt 2009)
James Goudkamp, Tort Law Defences (DPhil 2011)
Benjamin Eidelson, What is Discrimination and When is it Wrong? (DPhil 2011)
Konstantinos Kalliris, Autonomy, Well-Being and the Law (DPhil 2012)
Adam Perry, Rules, Reasons and Acceptance (DPhil 2012)
Paul Brady, Toward a Theory of Adjudication: Some Issues of Method and Principle (DPhil 2013)
Frederick Wilmot-Smith, Failure of Condition (DPhil 2013)
Adam Slavny, Tort from Scratch: The Philosophical Foundations of Harm, Actionability, and
Corrective Duties (PhD 2014, University of Warwick)
Gautam Bhatia, Communication and Constraint: Assessing Two Important Critiques of the
Interpretivist Account of Law (MPhil 2014)
Mikołaj Barczentewicz, Unconstitutional Constitutional Change (MPhil 2014)
George Mason, What is the Virtuous Emotional Response to our Wrongdoing? (PhD 2015,
University of Reading)
Research funding
British Academy Research Leave Award (1995)
Goethe Institut funding (£5K) for conference and workshops on Civil Liberties in The
United Kingdom and Germany (1997)
Economic and Social Research Council funding (£12K) for the Foundations of Charity
project (1998)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funding (£109K) for the Theory and Politics of Civil Society
project (2002, collaborator Jane Lewis)
Anonymous donor funding for the Oxford Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Law
(£110K over five years from 2004, 118K for five years from 2009)
Numerous small conference grants (British Academy, Modern Law Review, Society of
Legal Scholars, etc.)
Courses taught
Causation in the Law (with A M Honoré, Oxford 1987-96, 2000-15; with S Steel, Oxford
2016 and 2017)
Crime and Responsibility (with S Shute and J Horder, Oxford 1988-91, 1993, 1995)
Introducing Moral and Political Ideas (Oxford 1988, 1989)
The Enforcement of Morals (Oxford 1989)
Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law (with N Lacey, Oxford 1990, with J C McCrudden,
Oxford 1991)
Freedom of Speech (with S Shute, Oxford 1992 and J C McCrudden, Oxford 1995)
Introduction to the Philosophical Foundations of the Common Law (Oxford 1992)
Law and Morality (with A M Honoré, Oxford 1993-2001)
Freedom of Expression – the Conflict Cases (Oxford 1994, 1995)
Moral Philosophy (with T Macklem and J Glover, KCL 1997-2000)
Central Concepts in Legal and Political Philosophy (with J Raz and J Waldron, Columbia 2000)
Philosophy of Criminal Law (with G Fletcher, Columbia 2000)
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Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts (with A M Honoré, Oxford 2000-2010, with D
Réaume, Oxford 2011, 2012, with D Réaume & J Goudkamp, Oxford 2013, 2014)
Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Contract (with D Kimel & M Chen-Wishart, Oxford
2000-13)
Philosophical Issues in European Community Law (with S Weatherill, O Pfersmann and J
Bengoetxea, Oxford 2001)
Rawls, Habermas and Public Justification (with K Guenther, Oxford 2001)
Oxford-UCL Jurisprudence Workshop (with R M Dworkin, Oxford 2002)
Law and the State (with A M Honoré, Oxford 2002- )
Problems in Jurisprudence and Political Theory (with N Stavropoulos, Oxford 2003)
Constitutional Theory (with N Barber and others, Oxford 2003-8)
Advanced Jurisprudence (with J Coleman, Yale 2002, 2005)
Comparative Criminal Law (Yale 2005, Texas 2006)
Criminal Responsibility (KUB 2005, 2006)
Legality and the Rule of Law (with L Green, Texas 2006 and Oxford 2007-10)
Problems of Philosophy: Philosophy of Law (Princeton 2008)
Moral and Political Philosophy (with L Green & G Lamond, Oxford 2008-10; with T
Macklem KCL 1998-2000 and 2008-10, with T Macklem Oxford 2011-12, also on my
own 2013-16)
Law, Politics and Morality in Kieślowski’s Dekalog (with C Skach, Oxford 2008)
Legal and Political Philosophy (Oxford BPhil class, 2009, 2010, with C Fabre 2011, with T
Sinclair, 2014)
Recent work in Philosophy of Law (with L Green, Oxford 2011-2015)
Jurisprudence in Case Law (Oxford 2013, 2014)
Philosophical Foundations of Anti-Discrimination Law (with D Réaume & T Khaitan, Oxford
2013)
From Personal Life to Private Law (Oxford 2014, 2015)
Method in Legal Theory (with K Langenbucher, Frankfurt 2014, 2015, 2017)
Four Themes from The Concept of Law (Oxford 2015)
Statutory and Constitutional Interpretation (with A Marmor, Cornell 2015)
Theoretical Issues in Anti-Discrimination Law (Cornell 2015, Lucerne 2016, Oxford 2017)
Criminal Law and Political Philosophy (with J Edwards, Oxford 2016, 2017, 2018)
Conferences organised
Constitutional Civil Liberties: Germany and the United Kingdom, King’s College London, 1997
(with C Gearty)
Foundations of Charity, King’s College London, 1998 (with M Bolton)
Can Europe Have a Constitution? King’s College London, 2000 (with M Andenas)
The Theory and Politics of Civil Society (series), Rothermere Institute, Oxford, 2002-3 (with J
Lewis)
Eighth Annual Analytical Legal Philosophy Conference, All Souls College, Oxford, 2003
Complicity in Law and Morality, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 2004 (with M Köpcke
Tinturé)
The Justification of Political Violence, University College, Oxford, 2006 (with F Tanguay-
Renaud)
First Annual UK Analytical Legal & Political Philosophy Conference, University College,
Oxford, 2008 (with M Kramer, L Green, and C Grant)
Legal Science and Legal Theory, Oxford Law Faculty, 2010 (with L Duarte D’Almeida)
Shared Responsibility, Oxford Law Faculty, 2012 (with J Goudkamp)
Nineteenth Annual Analytical Legal Philosophy Conference, Oxford Law Faculty 2014
Apology and Reparation, Nottingham University 2014 (with C Rotherham)
JOHN GARDNER | DETAILED CV updated to 01.05.2018
Committee service
Trustee of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures (1991-7, 2000-2)
General Purposes Committee, Finance Committee, Admissions Committee, Brasenose
College, Oxford (at various times 1991-6)
Chair of Central and Eastern European Liaison Committee, Oxford Law Faculty (1994-6)
Academic Board of King’s College, London (1997-2000)
Board of KCL Enterprises Ltd (research funding intermediary) (1997-2000)
Graduate Studies Committee, Undergraduate Studies Committee and Examinations
Committee of Oxford Law Faculty (2001-6)
Finance Committee, Remuneration Committee, IT Committee, Strategy Committee, Ad
Hoc Communications Committee, University College, Oxford (at various times 2001- )
Committee to allocate ORS funds, University of Oxford (2002-4)
Member of Review Panel, Department of Politics, University of Oxford (2004-5)
Executive director with responsibility for communications, LNAT Consortium Ltd (spin-
out company running National Admissions Test for Law) (2003-10)
Steering Committee for Online Graduate Admissions, University of Oxford (2007-8)
Chair of Divisional Committee to allocate Clarendon funds, University of Oxford (2007)
Board of the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (2001-6 and 2010-12)
JOHN GARDNER | DETAILED CV updated to 01.05.2018
Examination boards
Prize Fellowship, All Souls College, Oxford (1989, 1990, 1999, 2017)
BCL/MJur examiner, University of Oxford (1992-5)
LLB (as chief examiner in jurisprudence), King’s College London (1996-2000)
LLB (as external examiner), University College London (1997-2000)
LLB (as external examiner), University of Limerick (2003-7)
Honour School of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford (2005-7 and 2012-14, chair 2014)
Personal interests
Cooking, allotmenteering, hiking, home improvements, playing bass guitar, graphic design and
typography, website development, film, literature, language, and languages. Now retired from
running after several half marathons.