Dr Pavlos Eleftheriadis

University Lecturer in Law
Pavlos Eleftheriadis is University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Mansfield College. He teaches and publishes in the philosophy of law, constitutional law and European Union law. He is also a barrister in England Wales and practises in EU law from Francis Taylor Building in the Temple.
Before joining Oxford he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics. He has been a visiting professor of European Law at Columbia University and a visiting fellow in Hellenic Studies at Princeton. He was awarded the Bodossaki Prize for Law in 2005. .
His book Legal Rights was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Reviews have appeared in 121 Ethics (2011) 652-657 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/659366) , in 30 Law and Philosophy (2011) (http://www.springerlink.com/content/05u1314j76v15242/fulltext.pdf) and in 55 American Journal of Jurisprudence (2010) 201.
He is the co-editor (with Julie Dickson) of the collection of essays The Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law (Oxford University Press, 2012) and the managing editor of the looseleaf encyclopedia D. Vaughan and A. Robertson (eds.), The Law of the EU, vols. 1-6 (Oxford University Press, 2007-2013).
He has been an active commentator on the Eurozone crisis in the press. His article on the Greek crisis, 'Only a New Political Order Can Rescue Greece', was published by the Financial Times on 28 May 2012 (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a02f585a-a5bd-11e1-b77a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1z5cL7XUl). His article on 'Greece's Anticapitalist Turn' was published in the Wall Street Journal on 21 January 2013 (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324624404578255452954037808.html)
You can follow him on twitter at @PEleftheriadis
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P Eleftheriadis, 'A Right to Health Care' (2012) 40 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 268
P Eleftheriadis, 'Citizenship and Obligation' in Julie Dickson and Pavlos Eleftheriadis (eds), Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law (Oxford University Press 2012)
P Eleftheriadis, 'Global Rights and the Sanctity of Life' in Glenn Cohen (ed), The Globalization of Health Care (Oxford University Press 2013) (forthcoming)
P Eleftheriadis, 'Law and Sovereignty' (2010) 29 Law and Philosophy 535 [...]
How is it possible that the idea of sovereignty still features in law and legal philosophy? Sovereignty is normally taken to refer to absolute power. Yet modern law assumes that power is exercised by officials constrained by legal rules and the rule of law. This essay argues that a closer look at sovereignty and law shows that the first impression is correct: law and sovereignty are mutually exclusive. Philosophically speaking, sovereignty is and has always been incompatible with the rule of law and with constitutional law itself. Sovereignty and constitutional government are mutually exclusive.
ISBN: 0167-5249
P Eleftheriadis, Legal Rights (Oxford University Press 2008)
P Eleftheriadis, 'Pluralism and Integrity' (2010) Ratio Juris 365 [...]
One of the theoretical developments associated with the law of the European Union has been the flourishing of legal and constitutional theories that extol the virtues of pluralism. Pluralism in constitutional theory is offered in particular as a novel argument for the denial of unity within a framework of constitutional government. This essay argues that pluralism fails to respect the value of integrity. It also shows that at least one pluralist theory seeks to overcome the incoherence of pluralism by implicitly endorsing monism. The coherence of European legal reasoning will be best preserved, if we consider that both the national legal order and the international (or European) such order endorse a sophisticated view of their own limits.
ISBN: 0952-1917
Interests
Teaching: Constitutional and Administrative Law; European Union Law; Philosophy of Law
Research:
Legal and Political Philosophy, Constitutional Law, EU Law

