philosophy-of-law

…in May 2026 (not January 2027 as the website still says), with new essays by Hasan Dindjer (Oxford), Amanda Greene (UC Santa Barbara), Gabe Mendlow (Michigan), Sophia Moreau (NYU), James Penner (NUS), Ralf Poscher (Freiburg), Sabine Tsuruda (Toronto), and Daniel Viehoff (Berkeley), and covering a wide range of topics in general and normative (or specific) […]

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Abstract Coherentism, in philosophy generally, is of either an epistemological or a metaphysical type. The epistemological type responds to worries about foundationalism that have no serious counterpart within the philosophy of law. The metaphysical type is implausible generally, but has been put to use within the philosophy of law - by Ronald Dworkin in particular - to close up "gaps" in the law…

Linda Radzik, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Binghamton University (SUNY). Radzik works mainly in ethics and philosophy of law, writing about “moral issues that arise in the aftermath of wrongdoing, including the ethics of forgiveness, reconciliation, criminal punishment, tort law, collective moral responsibility, and the roles third parties play in enforcing a…

Linda Radzik (ethics, philosophy of law), Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Tony Reeves, the Chair at Binghamton, tells me that their “Philosophy, Politics and Law” program has 564 majors currently, which is remarkable! (There are […]

I list all those with at least 1,500 citations (rounded to nearest 100 as usual), since numbers drop off more quickly here (philosophy of law is a lower citation field than political philosophy).

Philosophy of law explores some of the most basic and far-reaching questions about law, authority, and justice. It asks what law actually is, why it has power over us, and how it relates to morality, political authority, and social order. Whenever we obey a law, challenge an unjust system, or appeal to ideas such as rights and justice, we are already engaging with philosophical questions about th…

This will only interest my legal philosophy readers, but I do want to commend to their attention this paper by Richard Stillman, who trained as a philosopher of language with Stephen Neale before coming to Chicago to study law (and jurisprudence). He has identified something important about at least one subset of theoretical disagreements in […]

This research paper explores the relationship between law and morality through the critical analysis of various jurisprudential theories used to explain how legal systems behave including Natural Law, Legal Positivism, Legal Interpretivism, Legal Realism, Critical Legal Studies and Law and Economics.