JOHN GARDNER AT HOME

 

 

 


My publications
listed chronologically under five headings

books | articles & chapters | notes & reviews | pedagogical writings | interviews & memoirs


Books | click icon for catalogue entry / full text (access rights vary)

Action and Value in Criminal Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993), co-edited with Stephen Shute and Jeremy Horder

Relating to Responsibility: Essays in Honour of Tony Honoré on his 80th Birthday (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2001), co-edited with Peter Cane

Offences and Defences: Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007) [includes items marked # below] | Read reviews ...
In Spanish as Ofensas y defensas: Ensayos selectos sobre filosofía del derecho penal (trans Manrique and Peralta, Madrid: Marcial Pons 2012)

H.L.A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law (second edition with an introduction by John Gardner; Oxford University Press 2008)

Law as a Leap of Faith: Essays on Law in General (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012) [includes items marked + below] | Read reviews ...


Articles & chapters | click icon for full text (access rights vary)

'Concerning Permissive Sources and Gaps', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 8 (1988), 457

'Liberals and Unlawful Discrimination', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 9 (1989), 1; reprinted in Christopher McCrudden (ed), Anti-Discrimination Law (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1991)

'The Activity Condition in Criminal Law', in Heike Jung, Heinz Müller-Dietz and Ulfrid Neumann (eds), Recht und Moral: Beiträge zu einer Standortbestimmung (Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag, 1991)

'Making Sense of Mens Rea: Antony Duff's Account', (co-author: Heike Jung), Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 11 (1991), 559

'Private Activities and Personal Autonomy: At the Margins of Anti-Discrimination Law', in Bob Hepple and Erika Szyszczak (eds), Discrimination: The Limits of Law? (London: Mansell 1992)

'Introduction: The Logic of Criminal Law', (co-authors: Stephen Shute and Jeremy Horder) in Shute, Gardner and Horder (eds), Action and Value in Criminal Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)

'Freedom of Expression', in Christopher McCrudden and Gerry Chambers (eds), Human Rights and Civil Liberties in Britain  (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993)

'Criminal Law and the Uses of Theory', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 14 (1994), 217

'Rationality and the Rule of Law in Offences Against the Person', Cambridge Law Journal 53 (1994), 502 [#]

'On "The Information Society"', in Karel Schelle and Sona Skulova (eds), Workshop on Freedom of Information and Protection of Information (Brno: Masaryk University 1995)

'Justifications and Reasons', in Andrew Simester and A.T.H. Smith (eds), Harm and Culpability (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1996) translated into Czech as 'Ospravedlnéní a Odüvodnéní', Pravnik 8 (1996), 705 (with response to criticisms in English) [#]

'Discrimination as Injustice', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 16 (1996), 353

'The Purity and Priority of Private Law', University of Toronto Law Journal 46 (1996), 459

'On the General Part of the Criminal Law', in R.A. Duff (ed.), Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998)

'On the Ground of her Sex(uality)', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 18 (1998), 167

'The Gist of Excuses', Buffalo Criminal Law Journal 1 (1997), 575 [#]

'Crime: in Proportion and in Perspective', in A.J. Ashworth and M. Wasik (eds.), Fundamentals of Sentencing Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998) [#]

'Bemerkungen zu den Functionen und Rechtfertigungen von Strafrecht und Strafe', in Nils Jareborg, Andrew von Hirsch and Bernard Schünemann (eds), Positive Generalprävention als letzte Auskunft oder letzte Verlegenheit det Straftheorie (Heidelberg: C.F. Müller Verlag, 1998) [#]

'Law as a Leap of Faith',  in Peter Oliver, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott and Victor Tadros (eds), Faith in Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2000) [+]

'The Wrongness of Rape' (co-author: Stephen Shute), in Jeremy Horder (ed), Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence, Fourth Series (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000) [#]

'The Virtue of Justice and the Character of Law', Current Legal Problems 53 (2000), 1

'The Virtue of Charity and its Foils', in Charles Mitchell and Sue Moody (eds), Foundations of Charity (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2000)

'The Mysterious Case of the Reasonable Person', University of Toronto Law Journal 51 (2001), 273

'Compassion without Respect? Nine Fallacies in R v Smith' (co-author: Timothy Macklem), [2001] Criminal Law Review 623.

'Obligations and Outcomes in the Law of Torts' in Peter Cane and John Gardner (eds), Relating to Responsibility: Essays for Tony Honoré (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001) with a reply by Tony Honoré

'Provocation and Pluralism' (co-author Timothy Macklem), Modern Law Review 64 (2001), 815 [#]

'Reasons' (co-author: Timothy Macklem) in Jules Coleman and Scott Shapiro (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002).

'In Defence of Defences' in Flores Juris et Legum: Festskrift till Nils Jareborg  (Uppsala: Iustus Forlag 2002) [#]

'Legal Positivism: 5½ Myths', American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001), 199 [+]

'Reasons for Teamwork', Legal Theory 8 (2002), 495

'The Mark of Responsibility', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 23 (2003), 157 [#]

'No Provocation without Responsibility: A Reply to Mackay and Mitchell' (co-author: Timothy Macklem), [2004] Criminal Law Review 213

'The Legality of Law', Ratio Juris 17 (2004), 168; earlier draft in Associations 7 (2003), 89 [+]

'Fletcher on Offences and Defences', Tulsa Law Review 39 (2004), 817 [#]

'The Wrongdoing that Gets Results', Philosophical Perspectives 18 (2004), 53

'Wrongs and Faults' in A.P. Simester (ed), Appraising Strict Liability (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005); slighly different version in Review of Metaphysics 59 (2005), 95

'Backwards and Forwards with Tort Law' in Joseph Keim-Campbell, Michael O'Rourke and David Shier (eds) Law and Social Justice (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 2005) with a reply by Jules Coleman

'Law's Aim in Law's Empire' in Scott Hershovitz (ed), Exploring Law's Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006) with a reply by Ronald Dworkin


'Value, Interest, and Well-Being' (co-author:Timothy Macklem), Utilitas 18 (2006), 362

'Complicity and Causality',
Criminal Law and Philosophy 1 (2007), 127 [#]

'Prohibiting Immoralities', Cardozo Law Review 28 (2007), 2613

'Some Types of Law' in Douglas Edlin (ed), Common Law Theory (New York: Cambridge University Press 2007)
[+]

'Reply to Critics' in John Gardner, Offences and Defences (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007) [#]

'"
Semplicemente in Quanto Esseri Umani": Titolari e Giustificazioni dei Diritti Umani', Ragion Pratica 29 (2007), 413 (in Italian). English version published as '"Simply in Virtue of Being Human": the Whos and Whys of Human Rights', Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 2 (2008) at http://www.jesp.org/PDF/Gardner.pdf

'Nearly Natural Law', American Journal of Jurisprudence 52 (2007), 1 [+]

'Moore on Complicity and Causality', University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 156 (2008), 432

'Hart and Feinberg on Responsibility' in Matthew Kramer, Claire Grant, Ben Colburn and Antony Hatzistavrou (eds), The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008)

'The Logic of Excuses and the Rationality of Emotions', Journal of Value Inquiry 43 (2009), 315 [I am unhappy with the editing and recommend the very different version on SSRN ]

'
Ethics and Law' in John Skorupski (ed), The Routledge Companion to Ethics (London: Routledge 2010)

'Justification under Authority', Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 23 (2010), 71

'Hart on Legality, Justice, and Morality', Jurisprudence 1 (2010), 253
[+]

'What is Tort Law For? Part 1: The Place of Corrective Justice', Law and Philosophy 30 (2011), 1

'Disibilità umane: su cosa significhi l'avere accesso a un valore' (co-author: Timothy Macklem), Ragion Pratica 36 (2011), 9 [English version here ]

 'Can There Be a Written Constitution?', Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law 1 (2011), 162
[+]

'Relations of Responsibility' in Rowan Cruft, Matthew Kramer and Mark Reiff (eds), Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011).

'Desert and Avoidability in Self-Defense' (co-author: François Tanguay-Renaud), Ethics 12 (2011), 111 (the subject of extended comment and debate on the PEA soup blog)

'Torts and Other Wrongs', Florida State University Law Review 39 (2011), 43

'How Law Claims, What Law Claims' in Matthias Klatt (ed), Institutionalized Reason: The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012)
[+]

'In Defence of Offences and Defences', Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 4 (2012), 110

'Ashworth on Principles', in Lucia Zedner and Julian Roberts (eds), Principles and Values in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Andrew Ashworth (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012)

'Wrongdoing by Results: Moore's Experiential Argument', Legal Theory 18 (2012), 459

'Punishment and Compensation: a Comment', in Russell Christopher (ed), Fletcher's Essays on Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012)

'Corrective Justice, Corrected', Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche 12 (2012), 9

'Criminals in Uniform', in Duff, Farmer, Marshall, Renzo and Tadros (eds), The Constitution of Criminal Law
(Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012).

'Criminal Law' (co-author James Edwards) in Hugh LaFolette (ed), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics  (Chicester: Wiley-Blackewell 2013)

'Finnis on Justice', in John Keown and Robert George (eds), Reason, Morality, and Law: The Jurisprudence of John Finnis (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013) 


Notes & reviews | click icon for full text (access rights vary)

Review: H. McCoubrey, The Development of Naturalist Legal Theory, Times Literary Supplement, 28.08.87, 920

'Section 20 of the Race Relations Act 1976: "Facilities" and "Services"', Modern Law Review 50 (1987), 345

Note: West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive v Singh, Law Quarterly Review 105 (1989), 183

Note: Australian Iron and Steel v. Banovic, Law Quarterly Review 106 (1990), 361

Review: R. George (ed), Natural Law Theory, Times Literary Supplement, 10.07.92, 27

Review: M. Moore, Act and Crime, Law Quarterly Review 110 (1994), 496

'Overtaking on the Right', New Law Journal, 13.10.95 (with A. Ashworth, R. Morgan, A.T.H. Smith, A. von Hirsch and M. Wasik)

Note: Hurley v Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bi-Sexual Group of Boston, International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 1 (1996), 283

'Neighbouring on the Oppressive', Criminal Justice 16 (1998), 7 (with A. Ashworth, R. Morgan, A.T.H. Smith, A. von Hirsch and M. Wasik)

'Clause 1 - The Hybrid Law from Hell', Criminal Justice Matters 31 (1998), 21 (with Ashworth, Morgan, Smith, von Hirsch and Wasik)

'Aid, Abet, Counsel, Procure: an English view of Complicity', in Albin Eser, Barbara Huber, Karin Cornils (eds.), Einzelverantwortung und Mitverantwortung im Strafrecht (Freiburg: Iuscrim 1998)

Review: T. Campbell, The Legal Theory of Ethical Positivism, King's College Law Journal 9 (1998), 180

'Charitable Status: Back to Basics with a Purpose', NGO Finance Charity Law Annual Review 1998

'Introduction: Can Europe have a Constitution?', King's College Law Journal 12 (2001), 1 (with Mads Andenas)

Review: Antony Duff Punishment, Communication and Community, Punishment and Society 4 (2002), 496

'Introduction to Geoffrey Bindman' in N.Owen (ed), Human Rights, Human Wrongs: the Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2001 (Oxford:Oxford University Press 2003)

Review: S. Shute and A.P. Simester, Criminal Law Theory: Problems of the General Part, Law Quarterly Review 119 (2003), 161

Review: Thomas Nagel, Concealment and Exposure, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 11.07.2003

Review: Christopher Kutz, Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age, Ethics 114 (2004), 827

Review: Nicola Lacey, A Life of H.L.A. Hart: the Nightmare and the Noble Dream, Law Quarterly Review 121 (2005), 329

Review: Neil MacCormick, Rhetoric and the Rule of Law, London Review of Books, 09.03.06

'Justification, Excuse, and Mitigation in Criminal Law' in P. Cane and J. Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008)

Review: Douglas Husak, Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 03.08.2008

Review: Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law, London Review of Books, 08.07.10

Review: Antony Duff et al, The Boundaries of the Criminal Law, Law Quarterly Review 127 (2011), 634.

Review: Scott Shapiro, Legality (co-author: Timothy Macklem), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 08.12.2011


Pedagogical writings | click icon for full text

'Why Study Jurisprudence?' in The Inner Temple Yearbook 2006-7 (London 2006) 

'Law and Philosophy' in Simon Halliday (ed), An Introduction to the Study of Law (Edinburgh: W Green 2012).


Interviews and memoirs | click icon for full text (access rights vary)

Interview with John Gardner in Richard Susskind (ed), The Susskind Interviews: Legal Experts in Changing Times (London: Sweet & Maxwell 2005)

Interview with John Gardner in Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen (ed), Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions (New York: Automatic Press 2007)

'Tony Honoré as Teacher and Mentor: a Personal Memoir' in Boudewijn Sirks (ed) Aspects of Law in Late Antiquity (Oxford: privately published 2008)

Interview: 'Putting Legal Philosophy in its Place', Rivista di Filosofia del Dirrito 1 (2012), 253
 

 

 



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