Draft papers available for download

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'Interview', forthcoming in Doxa: Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho. Posted 10 May 2011.

'The Idea of Justice', a critical notice of Sen's eponymous book, forthcoming in Journal of Law, Philosophy, and Culture 5 (2011). Posted 2 April 2012.

'Reasons and Abilities: Some Preliminaries', forthcoming in the American Journal of Jurisprudence 57 (2013). This slightly revised version posted 30 January 2013.

'Why Law Might Emerge: Hart's Problematic Fable', forthcoming in Luis Duarte d'Almeida, Andrea Dolcetti, and James Edwards (eds), Reading HLA Hart's The Concept of Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2013). Heavily revised version, posted 12 February 2013.

'Some Rule-of-Law Anxieties about Strict Liability in Private Law', intended for Lisa Austin and Dennis Klimchuk (eds), The Rule of Law and Private Law (Oxford: OUP 2014). Draft. Posted 13 February 2013.

'Human Disability' with Timothy Macklem. New version posted 18 February 2013. Earlier version published in Italian as 'Disibilità umane: su cosa significhi l'avere accesso a un valore', Ragion Pratica 36 (2011), 9.

'What is Tort Law For? Part 2. The Place of Distributive Justice', intended for John Oberdiek (ed), Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law (Oxford: OUP 2014). Heavily revised draft, posted 26 April 2013.

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My friend Tony Honoré, above, at a party to celebrate his 90th birthday in 2011. In 2008, below, we celebrated his 60 years of teaching in Oxford Law.

 

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