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2018

DETAILED CURRICULUM VITAE

Professor John Gardner FBA


All Souls College, Oxford, OX1 4AL, UK
 +44 1865 618102 john.gardner@law.ox.ac.uk http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lawf0081

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
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Education
 Glasgow Academy, Glasgow (1970-82)
 New College, Oxford (1983-7)
 Inns of Court School of Law, London (1987-8)

Qualifications and awards


 Law Moderations, University of Oxford, with Distinction (1984)
 Exhibitioner of New College, Oxford (1984-6)
 Bachelor of Arts in the Honour School of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, First Class
(1986); converted to Master of Arts (1990)
 Honorary Senior Scholar of New College, Oxford (1986-7)
 Bachelor of Civil Law, University of Oxford, First Class (1987)
 Vinerian Scholarship, awarded for best performance in the BCL examinations (1987)
 Inns of Court Studentship (1987)
 Examination for the Bar of England and Wales, placed 12th (1988)
 Barrister of the Inner Temple (called 28 July 1988)
 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford (1994)

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)

Honours and distinctions


 Fifty Pound Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (1998-2000)
 Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (2003- )
 Fellow of the British Academy, sections S1-law and H12-philosophy (2013- )
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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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Italian as ‘Semplicemente in Quanto Esseri Umani: Titolari e Giustificazioni dei Diritti


Umani’ Ragion Pratica 29 (2007), 413
44. ‘Introduction’ in H.L.A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility (second edition, Oxford:
Oxford University Press 2008)
45. ‘Nearly Natural Law’, American Journal of Jurisprudence 52 (2007), 1; also in Polish as
‘W Strone˛ Prawa Naturalnego’, Ius et Lex 5 (2007), 7
46. ‘Moore on Complicity and Causality’, University of Pennsylvania Law Review 156 (2008), 432
at http://www.pennumbra.com/responses/04-2008/Gardner.pdf
47. ‘Hart and Feinberg on Responsibility’ in Matthew Kramer, Claire Grant, Ben Colburn and
Antony Hatzistavrou (eds), The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart (Oxford: Oxford University Press
2008)
48. ‘The Logic of Excuses and the Rationality of Emotions’, Journal of Value Inquiry 43 (2009),
315
49. ‘Ethics and Law’ in John Skorupski (ed), The Routledge Companion to Ethics (London:
Routledge 2010)
50. ‘Justification under Authority’, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 23 (2010), 71
51. ‘Hart on Legality, Justice and Morality’, Jurisprudence 1 (2010), 253
52. ‘What is Tort Law For? Part 1: The Place of Corrective Justice’, Law and Philosophy 30
(2011), 1
53. ‘Can There Be a Written Constitution?’, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law 1 (2011), 162
54. ‘Relations of Responsibility’ in Rowan Cruft, Matthew Kramer and Mark Reiff (eds),
Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff (Oxford: Oxford
University Press 2011)
55. ‘Desert and Avoidability in Self-Defense’ (co-author: François Tanguay-Renaud), Ethics 12
(2011), 111
56. ‘How Law Claims, What Law Claims’ in Matthias Klatt (ed), Institutionalized Reason: The
Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012)
57. ‘In Defence of Offences and Defences’, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 4 (2012), 110
58. ‘Ashworth on Principles’, in Lucia Zedner and Julian Roberts (eds), Principles and Values in
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Andrew Ashworth (Oxford: Oxford
University Press 2012)
59. ‘Wrongdoing by Results: Moore’s Experiential Argument’, Legal Theory 18 (2012), 459
60. ‘Punishment and Compensation: a Comment’, in Russell Christopher (ed), Fletcher’s Essays
on Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012)
61. ‘Corrective Justice, Corrected’, Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche 12 (2012), 9
62. ‘Law and Philosophy’ in Simon Halliday (ed), An Introduction to the Study of Law
(Edinburgh: W. Green 2012)
63. ‘Criminals in Uniform’, in Antony Duff, Lindsay Farmer, Sandra Marshall, Massimo Renzo
and Victor Tadros (eds), The Constitution of Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press
2012)
64. ‘Criminal Law’ (co-author James Edwards) in Hugh LaFolette (ed), The International
Encyclopedia of Ethics (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2013)
65. ‘Finnis on Justice’, in John Keown and Robert George (eds), Reason, Morality, and Law: The
Jurisprudence of John Finnis (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013)
66. ‘Reasons and Abilities: Some Preliminaries’, American Journal of Jurisprudence 58 (2013), 63
67. ‘Why Law Might Emerge: Hart’s Problematic Fable’, in Luís Duarte d'Almeida, James
Edwards and Andrea Dolcetti (eds), Reading HLA Hart’s The Concept of Law (Oxford: Hart
Publishing 2013)
68. ‘Human Disability’, King’s Law Journal 25 (2014), 60 (co-author: Timothy Macklem);
earlier draft in Italian as ‘Disibilità umane: su cosa significhi l’avere accesso a un valore’,
Ragion Pratica 36 (2011), 9
69. ‘What is Tort Law For? Part 2. The Place of Distributive Justice’, in John Oberdiek (ed),
Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014)
70. ‘Law as a Leap of Faith as Others See It’, Law and Philosophy 33 (2014), 813
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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

Forthcoming and in progress


 ‘Tort Law and its Theory’, forthcoming in John Tasioulas (ed), The Cambridge Companion to
Philosophy of Law, under contract to CUP
 ‘The Contractualization of Labour Law’, forthcoming in Hugh Collins, Gillian Lester, and
Virginia Mantouvalou (eds), Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law, in press with OUP
 ‘Causation in the Law’, with Tony Honoré, a substantially rewritten version of Tony’s
classic article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
 ‘The Twilight of the Rule of Law’ destined for Stefan Sciaraffa and Wil Waluchow (eds),
Beyond the State, under review with OUP

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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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2005- )


Criminal Law and Philosophy (2006- )
Journal of International Criminal Justice (2006-2010)
Legisprudence (2007-12); Theory and Practice of Legislation (2013- )
Rivista di Filosfia del Diritto (2012- )
American Journal of Jurisprudence (2012- )
Ethics (2017- )
Philosopher’s Annual (nominating editor, 2017- )

Other advisory boards


Centre for Penal Theory, University of Cambridge (2000-7)
Philosophical Gourmet Report, http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com (2002-17)
Centre for Studies in Legal Culture, University of Copenhagen (2007- )
Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values, University of Chicago (2008- )
Hans Kelsen Werke – The Complete Works of Hans Kelsen (2010- )
European Academy of Legal Theory LLM - Academic Board (chair 2011-13, member 2014- )
Center for Theory and Philosophy of Human Rights, Łódź University (2013- )
European Research Council project on ‘The Roots of Responsibility’ (2018- )

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)

Major public lectures


 ‘The Mark of Responsibility’, Inaugural Lecture, University of Oxford, 2001
 ‘What is Tort Law for?’, The Lord Upjohn Lecture, Gray’s Inn, London, 2002
 ‘Some Types of Causal Relations’, The Leon Green Lecture, University of Texas 2004
 ‘Complicity and Causality’, The Kadish Lecture, University of California, Berkeley 2004
 ‘Common Law and Other Types of Law’, European Academy of Legal Theory Lecture,
Catholic University of Brussels 2005
 ‘How to be a Natural Lawyer’, The Natural Law Lecture, Notre Dame Law School 2007
 ‘The Normativity of Law’, The Petrozycki Lecture, University of Warsaw 2007
 ‘The Many Relations Between Law and Morality’, The ‘Or ‘Emet Lecture, York
University, Toronto 2008
 ‘H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On’, The J.A. Corry Memorial
Lecture, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario 2008
 ‘The Electrician’s Tale’, The Annual Law Lecture, University of Chester 2011
 ‘Apology and Repair’, The Annual Lecture in Law and Ethics, Rutgers Institute for Law
and Philosophy, Camden NJ 2012
 ‘From Personal Life to Private Law’ (three lectures), The Quain Lectures, University
College London, 2014
 ‘The Twilight of Legality’, The Irvine Lecture, Cornell Law School 2015
 ‘The Negligence Standard: Political Not Metaphysical’, The Chorley Lecture, London
School of Economics 2016
 ‘Discrimination, Disadvantage, Diversity’ (three lectures), The Diversa Lectures, University
of Sao Paolo, October 2016
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Other invited presentations


 ‘The Activity Condition in Criminal Law’, University of Warwick (seminar in the Law
Faculty, 1989)
 ‘The Activity Condition in Criminal Law’, Universität des Saarlandes (conference on
Criminal Law and Morality, 1989)
 ‘Private Activities and Personal Autonomy’, University of Southampton (seminar in the
Law Faculty, 1990)
 ‘Private Activities and Personal Autonomy’, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
(W G Hart Workshop, 1990)
 ‘Aristotle on Responsibility’, University of East Anglia (seminar in the Philosophy
Department, 1991)
 ‘Making Sense of Mens Rea’, Universität des Saarlandes (lecture in the Law School, 1991)
 ‘Freedom of Expression’, Warsaw University (Soros-funded conference, 1991)
 ‘Rationality and the Rule of Law in Offences Against the Person’, University of Cambridge
(seminar at Caius College, 1994)
 ‘The Information Society’, Masaryk University, Brno (Jan Hus-funded conference, 1994)
 ‘Justifications and Reasons’, University of Glasgow (seminar in the Law School, 1995)
 ‘Justifications and Reasons’, University of Edinburgh (seminar in the Law Faculty, 1995)
 ‘Justifications and Reasons’, University of Tel Aviv (seminar in the Law Faculty, 1995)
 ‘On Human Rights’, Masaryk University, Brno, Law Schools in Olomouc and Plsen
(lecture tour 1996)
 ‘Complicity’, Max Planck Insitute, Tegernsee (conference paper 1996)
 ‘On the Functions and Justifications of Criminal Law and Punishment’, Uppsala University
(conference paper 1996)
 ‘Rights in Conflict’, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (conference paper, 1996)
 ‘Crime – in Proportion and in Perspective’ University of Nottingham (staff seminar 1997)
 ‘The Gist of Excuses’, University of Warwick (SPTL conference 1997)
 ‘The Wrongness of Rape’, Uppsala University (King’s-Uppsala colloquium 1998)
 ‘The Wrongdoing that Gets Results’, University of San Diego (Analytical Legal Philosophy
conference 1998)
 ‘Wrongdoing on Balance’, Columbia University, New York (Legal Theory Workshop
1998)
 ‘The Virtue of Justice and the Character of Law’, University College London (Current Legal
Problems lecture 1999)
 ‘The Virtue of Justice and the Character of Law’, McGill University, Montreal (Legal
Theory Workshop 2000)
 ‘The Virtue of Justice and the Character of Law’, University of Toronto (Legal Theory
Workshop 2000)
 ‘Reasons, Reasoning, Reasonableness’, University of Toronto (Oxford-Toronto Legal
Theory Colloquium 2000)
 ‘Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts’, Columbia University in New York
(colloquium in honour of Tony Honoré 2000, and public lecture 2000)
 ‘Reasons’, University of Texas at Austin (Oxford-Texas exchange workshop 2000)
 ‘The Virtue of Justice and the Character of Law’, St Thomas’ University, Miami (public
lecture, 2000)
 ‘Wrongdoing on Balance’, University of California, Berkeley (GALA seminar 2000)
 ‘The Mysterious Case of the Reasonable Person’, Chicago-Kent Law School (public lecture
2000)
 ‘Reasons, Reasoning, Reasonableness’, Rutgers University (seminar in the philosophy
faculty 2000)
 ‘The Virtue of Charity and its Foils’, Yale Law School (Legal Theory workshop 2000)
 ‘Legal Positivism: 5½ Myths’, Notre Dame Law School (public lecture 2001)
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 ‘Reasons for Teamwork’, Yale Law School (conference paper 2001)


 ‘Backwards and Forwards with Tort Law’, University of Idaho (conference paper 2002)
 ‘Value, Interest, and Well-being’, Yale Law School (seminar 2002)
 ‘Backwards and Forwards with Tort Law’, University of Pennsylvania Law School (seminar
2003)
 ‘The Legality of Law’, Lund University (public lecture at IVR congress 2003)
 ‘Wrongs and Faults’, Catholic University of America (public lecture 2003)
 ‘What is Tort Law For?’, Dartmouth College (public lecture 2003)
 ‘What is Tort Law For?’, University of East Anglia (public lecture 2003)
 ‘Just in Virtue of Being Human: the Whos and Whys of Human Rights’, UNESCO, Paris
(Philosophy Day 2004)
 ‘Wrongs and Faults’, Princeton University (faculty seminar in the Philosophy Department
2005)
 ‘Hart and Feinberg on Responsibility’, Georgia State University (conference in memory of
Joel Feinberg 2005)
 ‘Corrective Justice in Tort Law’, University of Texas (Analytical Legal Philosophy
Conference 2005)
 ‘Corrective Justice in Tort Law’, University of Glasgow (faculty seminar 2005)
 ‘Some Types of Law’, Lisbon (faculty seminar 2005)
 ‘Just in Virtue of Being Human: the Whos and Whys of Human Rights’, Portuguese
Philosophical Society, Lisbon (2005)
 ‘Causal Relations in Tort Law’, King’s College London (public lecture in the Law School
2006)
 ‘Some Types of Law’, University of Texas at Austin (faculty seminar 2006)
 ‘Reasons and Abilities’, Institute of Philosophy, London (conference in honour of Joseph
Raz, 2006)
 ‘Legal Positivism: 5½ Myths’, University of Catanzaro, Calabria (seminar in the Law School
2006)
 ‘Just in Virtue of Being Human: the Whos and Whys of Human Rights’, University of
Palermo, Sicily (seminar in the Department of Legal Philosophy, 2006)
 ‘Just in Virtue of Being Human: the Whos and Whys of Human Rights’, University of
Newcastle (seminar in the Politics Department, 2006)
 ‘Prohibiting Immoralities’, Cardozo Law School, New York (conference in honour of
George Fletcher, 2006)
 ‘Reasons and Abilities’, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National
University, Canberra (seminar in the Philosophy Programme, 2006)
 ‘Reasons and Abilities’, University of Manchester (workshop on Practical Reason, 2007)
 ‘Hart and Feinberg on Responsibility’, University of Cambridge (conference in memory of
H.L.A. Hart, 2007)
 ‘Nearly Natural Law’, University of Bristol (annual jurisprudence lecture 2007)
 ‘H.L.A. Hart's Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On’, Princeton University
(LAPA Seminar 2008)
 ‘Hart and Feinberg on Responsibility’, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario (seminar in
the Philosophy Department 2008)
 ‘Human Disability’, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario (seminar in the Politics
Department, 2008)
 ‘The Many Connections between Law and Morality’, Arizona State University (seminar in
the Law School 2008)
 ‘H.L.A. Hart's Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On’, Arizona State University
(Law and Philosophy Seminar 2008)
 ‘The Many Connections between Law and Morality’, Princeton University (Council of
Humanities Seminar, in conversation with Robert P. George, 2008)
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 ‘Can There be a Written Constitution?’, University College, Oxford (lecture celebrating


twenty years of the Southern Methodist University Oxford Program, 2008)
 ‘The Logic of Excuses and the Rationality of Emotions’, Australian National University
(seminar in the College of Law, 2008)
 ‘The Logic of Excuses and the Rationality of Emotions’, University of Sheffield (workshop
on Emotions and Values, 2009)
 ‘Can There be a Written Constitution?’, University of Palermo (seminar in the Legal
Philosophy Department, 2009)
 ‘Punishment and Self-Defence’, Rutgers University - Newark (conference on Philosophical
Foundations of Criminal Law 2009)
 ‘McMahan on Desert and Liability in Self-Defence’, University of Oxford (workshop on
Jeff McMahan’s Killing in War, 2009)
 ‘Can There be a Written Constitution?’ University of Girona (Oxford-Girona legal
philosophy workshop 2009)
 ‘What is Tort Law For? Part 1. The Place of Corrective Justice’, American Philosophical
Assosciation Eastern Division, New York (2009)
 ‘The Supposed Formality of the Rule of Law’, New Zealand Society for Legal and Social
Philosophy, Auckland (seminar 2010)
 ‘The Electrician’s Tale’, University of Auckland (public lecture in the Faculty of Law 2010)
 ‘The Electrician’s Tale’, University College Cork (Criminal Justice and Human Rights
Conference 2010 – keynote)
 ‘What is Tort Law For? Part 2. The Place of Distributive Justice’, University of Oxford
(Obligations Conference 2010 – plenary)
 ‘Complicity and Causality’, Stockholm University (seminar in the Law Faculty, 2010)
 ‘Hart on Legality, Justice, and Morality’, Stockholm University (seminar in the Law
Faculty, 2010)
 ‘Relations of Responsibility’, Uppsala University (seminar in the Law Faculty, 2010)
 ‘Criminals in Uniform’, University of Stirling (criminalization workshop 2010)
 ‘Can There be a Written Constitution?’ University of Genoa (Fresco workshop 2010)
 ‘What is Tort Law For? Part 1. The Place of Corrective Justice’, University of Genoa
(Fresco workshop 2010)
 ‘Torts and other Wrongs’, Florida State University (conference on civil recourse 2011)
 ‘Criminals in Uniform’, University of Warwick (criminalization workshop 2011)
 ‘Law and Morality’, University of Western Ontario (Public Law and Legal Philosophy
Scholars lecture 2011)
 ‘Torts and Other Wrongs’, University of Leicester (UK Analytical Legal Philosophy
Conference 2011)
 ‘What is Legal Pluralism?’, McGill University (‘Stateless Law?’ conference 2012, keynote)
 ‘What is Tort Law For? Part 2. The Place of Distributive Justice’, Harvard University (law
and philosophy seminar 2013)
 ‘The Many Faces of the Reasonable Person’, Georgetown University (Ethics workshop,
2013)
 ‘On the Harm Principle’, Institut Villey, Université de Paris II (conference marking 50
years of H.L.A. Hart’s Law, Liberty, and Morality, 2013)
 ‘What is Legal Pluralism?’, Osgoode Hall Law School (Ontario Legal Theory Partnership
Graduate Legal Theory Conference 2013, keynote)
 ‘Apology and Repair’, Unversity of Reading (seminar in the Philosophy Dept 2013)
 ‘Emotions in Practical Life’, Tel Aviv University (Edmond J. Safra Center seminar, 2013)
 ‘The Many Faces of the Reasonable Person’, University of Nottingham (staff seminar in the
Law School 2014)
 ‘Excusatory Emotion’, University of Richmond, Virginia (PPEL conference 2014)
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 ‘Breach of Contract as a Special Case of Tort’, University of Amsterdam (ARILS seminar


2014)
 ‘The Evil of Privatization’, Warwick University (workshop on Alon Harel’s Why Law
Matters, 2014)
 ‘The Electrician’s Tale (Revisited)’, University of York (public lecture, 2015)
 ‘The Way Things Used to Be’, University of Southern California (Analytical Legal
Philosophy Conference 2015)
 ‘Good Sex’, University of Nottingham (conference on rape law, 2015)
 ‘The Many Faces of the Reasonable Person’, New York University (legal theory
colloquium 2015)
 ‘Relationality and Rights’, Queen’s University, Kingston (workshop on Jean Thomas’s
Public Rights, Private Relations 2015)
 ‘That’s the Story of my Life’, Cornell University (workshop on private law theory, 2015)
 ‘The Negligence Standard - Political Not Metaphysical’, University of Edinburgh
(Foundations of Normativity conference 2016)
 ‘Bread and Roses’, University College London (Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law
conference 2016)
 ‘The Opposite of Rape’, University of Oslo (seminar in the Philosophy Department 2016)
 ‘The Negligence Standard - Political Not Metaphysical’, University of Oxford (keynote at
the SLS conference 2016)
 ‘Discrimination Law: What is it Good For?’, University of Lucerne (public lecture 2017)
 ‘Doubts about “Democratic Legitimacy”’, Queen Mary University of London (keynote at
Democracy, Legitimacy, and Hate Speech conference 2017)
 ‘Punishment v Self-defence’, University of Oslo (paper presented at Ethics and Law of
Armed Conflict annual conference 2017)
 ‘Discrimination: the Good, the Bad, and the Wrongful’, University of Toronto (workshop
in the Law Faculty 2017)
 ‘The Twilight of Legality’, Ontario Legal Theory Partnership (keynote at Beyond the State
conference, Burlington Ontario 2017)
 ‘Discrimination: the Good, the Bad, and the Wrongful’, Aristotelian Society (paper
presented to the Society at the Senate House, University of London 2017)
 ‘Justice in Punishment and Self-Defence’, University of Cambridge (meeting of the Moral
Sciences Club, 2018)
 ‘Justice in Punishment and Self-Defence’, Dartmouth College (Ethics Institute Workshop
on Moral and Political Philosophy, 2018)

Research students supervised


 Grant Lamond, Commitments and Practical Reason (DPhil 1996, co-supervisor Joseph Raz).
Grant is now Fellow and Tutor in Law at Balliol College, Oxford.
 Anthony Norton, To What Extent does the English Common Law protect Privacy Interests?
(MLitt 1996). Anthony is now Head of Competition Law at Webber Wentzel Bowens.
 Cécile Fabre, Constitutional Social Rights (DPhil 1997, supervised 1995-6). Cécile is now a
Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
 Alison Young (née Hale), Fact, Opinion and Freedom of Expression (DPhil 1999, co-supervisor
Timothy Endicott). Alison is now Fellow and Tutor in Law at Hertford College, Oxford.
 Eric Metcalfe, The Consequences of Cultural Diversity for the Content and Application of Human
Rights in Liberal Theory (DPhil 2000, co-supervisor David Miller). Eric became Director of
Human Rights Law at Justice, and is now a barrister at Monckton Chambers.
 Stephen Gough, Intoxication and Criminal Law (DPhil 2001, co-supervisor Jeremy Horder).
Steve became a Lecturer at Southampton University (but has now left the profession).
 Scott Hershovitz, Judging Interpretations (DPhil 2001, supervised 1999-2001). Scott is now
Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.
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 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).

Research students examined


 Raphael Cohen-Almagor, The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (DPhil 1991)
 John Stanton-Ife, Health Care Allocation in Ethics and Law: A Defence of the Need Principle
(PhD 1996, European University Institute)
 Anton Fagan, Constitutional Adjudication in South Africa (DPhil 1997)
 Timothy Endicott, The Use of Vague Language in Law and Adjudication (DPhil 1998)
 Andres Rosler, The Authority of the State and the Political Obligation of the Citizen in Aristotle
(DPhil 1999)
 Dori Kimel, Contract as a Substitute for Promise (DPhil 1999)
 Julie Dickson, Evaluation and Legal Theory (DPhil 2000)
 Paul Markwick, Normativity and Law (PhD 2000, University of St Andrews)
 Daniel McDermott, Retribution and the Legitimate State (DPhil 2001)
 Michelle Yue-Wei Ng, ‘Eludication’ and ‘Rule’ in The Concept of Law (MSt 2001)
 Amanda Perreau-Saussine, Natural Law with Gloves Off (PhD 2002, University of
Cambridge)
 Bebhinn Donnelly, Human Nature and Natural Law (PhD 2002, University of Birmingham)
 Douglas Edlin, Judges and Unjust Laws (DPhil 2002)
 Dale Smith, Relative Judgments: a Relativist Theory of Adjudication (DPhil 2003)
 Jeremy Watkins, Equality, Responsibility, and Wrongdoing (DPhil 2003)
 Tarek Hayfa, Pluralism and the Problem of Public Justification in Contemporary Political Philosophy
(DPhil 2003)
 Oran Doyle, Constitutional Equality in Ireland: a Critical Account (PhD 2003, Trinity College
Dublin)
 Dimitrios Kyritsis, Divided Authority: Separation of Powers and Legal Theory (DPhil 2005)
 Dwight Newman, Community and Collective Rights (DPhil 2005)
 Keren Murray, Anti-Social Behaviour Orders: a Third Way for Human Rights (MPhil 2005)
 Irit Samet-Porat, Evildoing (DPhil 2005)
 Jonathan Crowe, Existentialism, Liberty, and the Ethical Foundations of Law (PhD 2006,
University of Queensland)
 Keith Hyams, Consent (DPhil 2006)
 Kimberley Brownlee, The Moral Justification of Civil Disobedience (DPhil 2007)
 Matthew Harding, Trust and the Fiduciary: Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law (DPhil
2007)
 Rodrigo Sanchez Brigido, Groups, Rules, and Legal Practice (DPhil 2007)
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 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)
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 (International) Legal Positivism, Oxford Law Faculty 2015 (with A Tzanakopoulos, J


d’Aspremont and J Kammerhofer)

Public policy contributions


 Provided expert evidence on the moral limits of censorship to the Indecent Publications
Tribunal of New Zealand (1990), relied upon by the tribunal
 Drafted amendments to the Crime and Disorder Bill 1998 for use by the Howard League
for Penal Reform and undertook extensive media work in support of the proposals. Widely
cited in parliament during debates.
 Member of National Council for Voluntary Organisations working group on the reform of
the law relating to charitable status (part of the impetus for the Charities Act 2006)
 Numerous BBC Radio interviews and panel discussions (anti-social behaviour orders, anti-
terrorism legislation, the political role of judges, the execution of Saddam Hussain, the
decline of the rule of law in the UK ...)
 Work for various Oxford colleges on constitutional and statutory affairs, most recently as
consultant to Harris Manchester College on its relationship with its Chapel Society.
 Regular speaker in the John Smith Memorial Trust’s Fellowship Programme (2012-15)

Administrative and management roles


 Senior Member of JCR and Assessor, Brasenose College (1993-6)
 Module leader for Jurisprudence and allied subjects, King’s College London (1996-2000)
 Chair of TAG (curricular reform project), School of Law, King’s College London (1997-9)
 Convenor of the Philosophy of Law subject group, Oxford Law Faculty (2000- )
 Quality Assurance Co-ordinator, Oxford Law Faculty (2001-5)
 Co-director, Oxford Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Law (2003- )
 Founder of LNAT, the National Admissions Test for Law (2003)
 Quality Assurance consultant to University of Birmingham School of Law (2004)
 Director of Graduate Studies (Taught Programmes), Oxford Law Faculty (2005-7)
 Acting Director of Graduate Studies (Research Students), Oxford Law Faculty (2005, 2006)
 Research Co-ordinator, Oxford Law Faculty (2008-11)
 IT Fellow, University College, Oxford (2009-11)
 Keeper of Statutes and Regulations, University College, Oxford (2011- )

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

 Outreach Committee, The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (2010-15)


 Committee to allocate UCPH2016 research funding, University of Copenhagen (2012-13,
reconvened 2016 for assessment of ongoing projects)
 Innovation Fund Committee, IT Services, University of Oxford (2014-15)
 Computing Sub-committee, All Souls College (2017- )
 Strategic Research Review, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2018)

Electoral boards and appointment committees


 Quain Professorship of Jurisprudence at University College, London (2004, 2015)
 Professorship of the Philosophy of Law, University of Oxford (2006)
 Recognition of Distinction panel, Oxford Social Sciences Division (2006)
 Downing Professorship of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge (2011)
 Vinerian Professorship of English Law, University of Oxford (2012)
 Numerous appointment committees at lecturer and JRF level in law, philosophy, politics

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.

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