🚨 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...

We’re delighted to share that Leah Trueblood (DPhil, Oxon) has officially joined the School of Law, University of Surrey and is now a member of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy! | Surrey Centr...

We’re delighted to share that Leah Trueblood (DPhil, Oxon) has officially joined the School of Law, University of Surrey and is now a member of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy! 🎉 Leah brings...

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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...

Dialogue re the Worth of Philosophy Grad School

I recently read and enjoyed  this  dialogue on philosophy grad school and why we have it by Barry Lam . While I enjoyed it and learned from ...

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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!

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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....

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...

Hasan Dindjer (University of Oxford): ‘The Law’s False Promise’

Abstract coming soon. Hasan Dindjer is an Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law and the Blanesburgh Fellow and Tutor in Law at Balliol College. This event will take place in person on LS…

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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.

To Fight Authoritarianism, Libertarians Need to be More Pro-Liberty, Not Just Anti-State

Blogger Noah Smith’s praise for libertarianism comes at an odd time but offers an opportunity to clarify the side that has contributed to human freedom and flourishing

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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/...

We Won Our Tariff Case!

The US Court of International Trade just issued a unanimous ruling in the case against Trump's "liberation day" tariffs filed by Liberty Justice Center

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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

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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!

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Our Legal Theory Festival starts 3 weeks today! We've workshops on Methodology in General Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence by Experiment, Conforming Interpretation and Human Rights, Contemporary Critical Legal Theory, and Grotius' "The Rights of War and Peace", as well as a Keynote by David Dyzenhaus.

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

LPT Seminar - Registration Form (Simon Palmer)

LPT Seminar w/ Simon Palmer (Surrey) Title: Do Triggerable Reasons Explain Legal Authority? Time: Friday, 09 May 2025 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to registered participa...

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

Engaging Raz: Themes in Normative Philosophy

Abstract. Joseph Raz (1939–2022) was a towering figure in late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century analytical philosophy. His work in moral, p

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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

I owe the libertarians an apology

It turns out there are worse monsters than the market.

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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: jurisprudence-discussion-group-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk

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...

Why philosophers hate that ‘equity’ meme

If you want to annoy your favorite philosopher, one of the best ways to do it these days is to mention the “kids standing on boxes equity meme.” To call it the bane of our existence would be something...

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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....

La teoria del diritto di H.L.A Hart. Una introduzione critica

Published in Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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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

Maggie O’Brien, Standing to Blame and Standing to Praise? - PhilPapers

Praise and blame are both forms of moral assessment. Yet, the literature on standing has focussed on blame – to blame appropriately one needs standing to do so. Praise has been ...

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🗓️ 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!