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Professor John Finnis FBA

Law

Elected 1990

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990
Honours
QC (Hon.)
Sections
Philosophy, Law
Website
http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/profile/john.finnis

Current post

Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus, University of Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy

1989 -

University of Oxford Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford

1970 -

University of Oxford Lecturer in Law

1970 -

University of Oxford Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus, University of Oxford

1970 -

University of Notre Dame, Indiana Professor of Law

1970 -

University College University of Oxford Fellow

1970 -

Other Foreign Institutions

1970 -

Publications

Reason in Action: Collected Essays of John Finnis vol. 1 2011

Intention and Identity: Collected Essays of John Finnis vol. 2 2011

Human Rights and Common Good: Collected Essays of John Finnis, vol. 3 2011

Philosophy of Law: Collected Essays of John Finnis vol. 4 2011

Religion and Public Reasons: Collected Essays of John Finnis vol. 5 2011, pb 2013

Natural law and natural rights 1980; 2nd ed with Postscript 2011

Fundamentals of ethics 1983

Aquinas: moral, political and legal theory 1998

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Terence Irwin FBA

Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. Kant. Moral philosophy, especially its history

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Professor Richard Holton FBA

Philosophy of mind and action; moral psychology; ethics; philosophy of law; philosophy of language

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Professor Kenneth Reid FBA

The law of property, both in Scotland and as part of European private law; doctrinal legal history, especially of the 18th and 19th centuries; law reform; mixed jurisdictions

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