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Professor Joseph Raz FBA

Legal Philosophy with Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy, and Philosophy of Action
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1987
Year of birth
1939
Year of death
2022
Subjects
Law, Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy , Law

Last post

Professor, Columbia University Law School; Professor, King's College London

Past appointments

King's College London University of London Research Professor (part time)

2011 -

University of Oxford Research Professor, University of Oxford

2006 - 2009

Columbia University, New York Professor

1991 -

University of Oxford Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College

1985 - 2006

Nuffield College University of Oxford Research Fellow

1970 - 1972

Balliol College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor

1970 - 1985

Hebrew University, Jerusalem Law Faculty & Dept. of Philosophy

1967 - 1972

Publications

The Practice of Value 2003 Oxford: OUP

Between Authority & Interpretation 2009 Oxford: OUP

From Normativity to Responsibility 2011 OXFORD: OUP

The Concept of a Legal System 1980, 2nd ed. Oxford: OUP

Practical Reason and Norms 1999 (first edition 1975) Oxford: OUP

Value, Respect, and Attachment 2001 Cambridge: CUP

The Authority of Law 1979. Second edition 2009, Oxford: OUP

The morality of freedom 1986

Ethics in the public domain 1995

Engaging reason 2000

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Professor Gunther Teubner FBA

Social theory of law, private law theory, contract law, comparative law

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Professor Emily Jackson FBA

Medical law, especially the regulation of assisted reproduction; end of life decision-making and the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry

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Professor Dr Wolfgang Künne FBA

Metaphysics, philosophy of language and of logic; the beginnings of analytical philosophy in Prague, Jena and Cambridge, and the beginnings of phenomenology in Halle and Göttingen

Wolfgang Kunne FBA

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