Email: a.k.w.halpin@swansea.ac.uk  
Tel: (01792) 602410

Professor of Legal Theory

Research Interests
Professor Halpin's research interests lie broadly within legal theory, with particular interests in rights, legal reasoning, law and the philosophy of language, criminal law, and general/global jurisprudence.

Books

Definition in the Criminal Law (2004) http://www.hart.oxi.net/books/details.asp?sc=1-84113-071-0

Reasoning with Law (2001) http://www.hart.oxi.net/books/details.asp?sc=1-84113-244-6

Rights and Law – Analysis and Theory (1997) http://www.hart.oxi.net/books/details.asp?sc=1-901362-15-9

Other Recent Publications

"Disproving the Coase Theorem?" forthcoming Economics and Philosophy March 2007  http://ssrn.com/abstract=424820

"Ideology and Law" (2006) 11 Journal of Political Ideologies 153 http://ssrn.com/abstract=886065 also forthcoming  in Michael Freeden (ed), The Meaning of Ideology: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2007)

"The Methodology of Jurisprudence: Thirty Years Off the Point"  (2006) 19 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 67 http://ssrn.com/abstract=880803

"Glenn's Legal Traditions of the World: Some Broader Philosophical Issues"  (2006) 1 Journal of Comparative Law  116  http://ssrn.com/abstract=698021

"Or, Even, What the Law Can Teach the Philosophy of Language: A Response to Green's Dworkin's Fallacy" (2005) 91 Virginia Law Review 175    http://ssrn.com/abstract=683728

"Derechos, Utilitarismo y Moralidad: Observaciones preliminares" (translated by Paula Torres with an introduction by Rodolfo Arango) (Bogotá: University Externado de Colombia, 2004)

"Criminal Law Going Critical" SSRN Criminal Law & Procedure (also Law & Humanities, Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy) Abstracts, Accepted Paper Series, July 2004: http://ssrn.com/abstract=564571

"Fundamental Legal Conceptions Reconsidered" (2003) 16 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 41    http://ssrn.com/abstract=821227

"The Theoretical Controversy Concerning Judicial Review" (2001) 64 Modern Law Review 500

"Clamshells or Bedsteads?" (2000) 20 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 353    http://ssrn.com/abstract=821577

"Law, Theory and Practice: Conflicting Perspectives?" (2000) 7 International Journal of the Legal Profession 205

"Law, Autonomy, and Reason" (2000) 13 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 75