Research Professor   

Publications

Books

Theorising the Global Legal Order (2009) 

Definition in the Criminal Law (2004)

Reasoning with Law (2001)

Rights and Law – Analysis and Theory (1997)

Other Recent Publications   

"Conceptual Collisions” forthcoming (2011) 2 Jurisprudence

Review of Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Legal Rights (2011) 121 Ethics 652

"Austin’s Methodology? His Bequest to Jurisprudence" (2011) 70 Cambridge Law Journal 175  

"Coase's World and Coase's Blackboard" (2011), 31 European Journal of Law and Economics 91 

"Contesting the Province of Jurisprudence" (2010) 23 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 515      

"Methodology" in Dennis Patterson (ed), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, 2nd ed (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

"Methodology and the Articulation of Insight: Some Lessons from MacCormick's Institutions of Law" in Maksymilian Del Mar and Zenon Bankowski (eds), Law as Institutional Normative Order (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009)

"Disproving the Coase Theorem?" (2007) 23 Economics and Philosophy 321

"A Rejoinder to Glenn" (2007) 2 Journal of Comparative Law 88

"Rights, Duties, Liabilities, and Hohfeld" (2007) 13 Legal Theory 23  

"Ideology and Law" in Michael Freeden (ed), The Meaning of Ideology: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2007)

"Ideology and Law" (2006) 11 Journal of Political Ideologies 153

"The Methodology of Jurisprudence: Thirty Years Off the Point"  (2006) 19 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence  67

"Glenn's Legal Traditions of the World: Some Broader Philosophical Issues"  (2006) 1 Journal of Comparative Law 116

"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

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

"Fundamental Legal Conceptions Reconsidered" (2003) 16 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 41

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

"Clamshells or Bedsteads?" (2000) 20 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 353   

 "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

Recent PhD Supervisions

Have covered theoretical models of criminal justice, human rights, and conceptual analysis within constitutional theory.

Proposals are welcomed on any theoretical inquiry related to law, and in particular those concerning rights, legal reasoning, the judicial role, or jurisprudence in the context of globalisation.