🚨 Just out in Jurisprudence: a special issue, edited by D. Dyzenhaus and G.B. Ratti, devoted to the close relationship between HLA Hart and Norberto Bobbio. It comprises a.o. the translations into English of five essays by Bobbio, substantial excerpts from the Hart-Bobbio correspondence... 1/2

Academics are supposed to find counterintuitive, nonobvious truths. But much of my work consists of defending intuitive, seemingly obvious ideas, against experts and elites who reject them: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Are you interested in the Joint Session but not able to attend in person? This year, we will be live-streaming the Joint Session symposia so that people who are not at the conference but are interested in hearing those talks can join via Zoom. www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy continues to grow - welcome Leah! And more news to follow... www.linkedin.com/posts/surrey...

This Thursday (3 July), Jed Lewinsohn (Pitt) will be presenting his draft paper 'The Artificial Character of Preempetive Obligation' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be an exciting discussion! Register here: t.co/xRvvJjuPB4

I recently read and enjoyed a dialogue on why it is we have philosophy grad school and what it achieves. So I thought I would shamelessly copy the format and theme for my own blog! So, here's some imaginary people discussing why have philosophy grad school. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/dial...

Back from a social media break to share a new piece on the Raz-Hart debate. Thank you to so many who helped with this project, especially @glexareen.bsky.social and @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social. I'm working on a follow up, there's much more to say on all this. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Terrific paper. Download it while it's hot!

Join our Law, Ethics & Justice seminar next week! Hasan Dindjer (University of Oxford): ‘The Law’s False Promise’ 🗓️ 10 June - 4:00pm (London time) - hybrid! Zoom link: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

From @mattzwolinski.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net, on the libertarians who hate the state more than they love liberty and how they've failed to stand against (rather, they've often cheered for) authoritarianism.

My initial comments on today's big ruling in our case against Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, with key excerpts from the decision: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

This Friday (23 May), Linda Eggert (Oxford) will be presenting her paper 'Differences Wrongdoing Makes' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be an exciting discussion! Register here: bit.ly/448hFJW

Looks like a fabulous set of events for this year's Legal Theory Festival. The programme is available here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/.... Please repost and share widely!

The problem of constitutional law, in a nutshell:

Simon Palmer (Surrey) is presenting his "Do Triggerable Reasons Explain Legal Authority?" this Friday (09/05) at the Legal Philosophy Trident Seminar Series. This promises to be excellent. Registration and more info here: forms.gle/5GmRvPW7aepj... w/ @ezemonti.bsky.social

Very impressive collection, in honour of Joseph Raz, now published in electronic form. academic.oup.com/book/59879?s...

Next Friday (9 May), Simon Palmer will be presenting his paper 'Do Triggerable Reasons Explain Legal Authority?' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be an exciting discussion! Register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w

www.noahpinion.blog/p/i-owe-the-... Can I print this out and send it back to approximately 10,000 people in a time machine? @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev

The Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group Term Card for Trinity Term 2025 is out! 🎉 Seminars will take place at Balliol College's Massey Room unless otherwise indicated ☝🏻 To join the mailing list📨, email us at: [email protected]

This is great fun from Joe Heath, and explains why political philosophers (me included) get so annoyed by this weirdly ubiquitous and misleading meme, and all this mystifying and imprecise talk of 'equity'. A great public service. Please read it! josephheath.substack.com/p/why-philos...

I'm delighted that my review of Bruno Celano's semi-posthumous book on Hart is now published (online) in Jurisprudence. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nice try everyone thinks they can get out with "just be pragmatist then the issue goes away!" but, of course, about 12 of the views in the debate are various people trying to spell that out and it turns out they all have their own difficulties. There is no escape nothing will work this is hell.

On 28 March, Daniel Wodak will be presenting his paper 'Malapportionment: A Murder Mystery' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion! Register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w

Remember folks. The only truly safe investment is training yourself to find joy in art, literature, music, history, philosophy, conversation and so on.

KCL Law is hiring a YTL Early Career Research Fellow! 📚⚖️ It's a 1-year, research-only position at the YTL Centre for Philosophy, Politics, & Law. If you work in legal and/or political philosophy, consider applying! 📅Deadline: March 30 Details here: shorturl.at/fH0Zy.

Forthcoming in Thought! Continuing to push scepticism about standing to blame, this time by thinking about standing to praise. Here’s the penultimate version of ‘Standing to Blame and Standing to Praise?’ philpapers.org/rec/OBRSTB

🗓️ This Thursday 13, Feb., Frances Kamm (Harvard) will present her paper 'Health Policy and Innocent Threats: Abortion and Time Limits, Pandemics and Harm Prevention'. 🌎 Where? ONLINE at 5:00pm (check email for link) 👉 More information: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even... See you there!

On 21 February, Nina Varsava will be presenting her paper 'Stare Decisis and Egregiously Erroneous Precedents' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. As usual, Nina's paper is rigourous and thought-provoking. Looking forward to the discussion! Register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w

After last year's excellent presentations, this semester we will host four seminar sessions! 📢 Subscribe to our mailing list to receive updates: mailchi.mp/56f8c80f5514... Our website: aequitasfurg.com

We are now here too! 🥳 Follow us for events on Jurisprudence in Oxford. Here is our termcard, in case you haven't seen it:

My review of Scott Hershovitz's (shershovitz.bsky.social) “Law Is a Moral Practice” just published! You can read the review for my critique of the book. I'll highlight here something that I think the book gets right. It concerns lawyers’ moral expertise.🧵 journals.library.wustl.edu/jurisprudenc...

📰 #LSEPhilosophy Assistant Professor Lewis Ross has published his new paper on ‘Reintegrative Retributivism’ in the Modern Law Review. 🔓 Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The whole American mood atm is yeah having unprecedented prosperity and security painstakingly built up over 100+ years is great and all but what if we just burned it all down

Andre Santos Campos (NOVA Lisbon), Iñigo González-Ricoy (UB) and I are coordinating a special issue on Axel Gosseries' book "What Is Intergenerational Justice?" The first two papers are already out in Res Publica. Huge thanks to the authors (and to the reviewers!). Papers below (more to come)👇

Mini-thread with five reasons why I think the contrast between epistemic bubbles and echo chambers is overdrawn (from a conversation with @michaelhannon.bsky.social and @rbnmckenna.bsky.social)

Leah Trueblood has a v. good paper just out in the MLR on whether & when UK political parties should be regarded as performing public functions, and thus be subject to judicial review. I've always thought this was a really knotty & fascinating legal question.. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Epistemic democrats say the legitimacy of democracy depends on its ability to make good decisions. If voters are incompetent, we should abandon democracy. Critics say this is a problem. I say: let's gamble democracy on epistemology! Now forthcoming in Episteme! philpapers.org/rec/HANBDO-4

Wrote a post abt the diff btw punishment for individual culpability and based on fair notice. Should the law ever pretend you have traits we know you lack just because you were warned this would happen? Is that fair? Is it retributive justice? criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/c...

In our next post, @should-b-workin.bsky.social argues that, to a limited extent, the criminal law can fairly take D’s actions to manifest traits/attitudes even when we know that D does not actually possess them! Under what conditions? Find out this Friday on criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com!

Bulygin should be taught as part of the canon of 20th century legal philosophy, especially now we can read him in English

Me entrevistaron youtu.be/BfmjyofosoM?...

When we talk about great really short articles, we hear about Gettier's "I justified true belief knowledge?", Evans' "can there be vague objects?", Anscombe's "A note on mr Bennett." Not enough credit goes to Salmon's "The fact that x = y". If you haven't read it, do it. It's very short.

"I used GenAI to research this topic" The research:

The Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2025 is now accepting applications! To submit an abstract, visit the website: oxgradconference.wixsite.com/oxfordgradco...

Me entrevistaron un RATO: youtu.be/fvJPpfVoHmg?...

This Tuesday (10 Dec) we will have the huge pleasure of welcoming Liam Murphy (NYU) at Di Tella, who will be presenting his paper 'Against Moral Powers'. Join us for what promises to be a great discussion! The format will be hybrid. You can register here: bit.ly/3CYtdYh