John Gardner
Professor of Jurisprudence*
John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence and a Fellow of University College. He was formerly Reader in Legal Philosophy at King's College London (1996-2000), Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford (1991-6) and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (1986-91). He has also held visiting positions at Columbia University, Yale University, the University of Texas, Princeton University, the Australian National University and the University of Auckland. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, and The Journal of Moral Philosophy. Called to the Bar in 1988, he has been a Bencher of the Inner Temple since 2002 (although he does not practice).
Publications
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2013
J Gardner and James Edwards, 'Criminal Law' in Hugh LaFollette (ed), International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell 2013)
J Gardner, 'Criminals in Uniform' in R.A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, S.E. Marshall, Massimo Renzo, and Victor Tadros (eds), The Constitution of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2013)
2012
J Gardner, 'Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice' (2012) 6 Journal of Law, Philosophy, and Culture (forthcoming) [...]
An extended critical notice of Amartya Sen's book The Idea of Justice.
ISBN: 1939-7917
J Gardner, 'Ashworth on Principles' in Julian Roberts and Lucia Zedner (eds), Principles and Values in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Andrew Ashworth (Oxford University Press 2012)
J Gardner, 'Corrective Justice, Corrected' (2012) 12 Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche 9
Interests
Teaching: Criminal Law; Human Rights Law; Philosophy of Law
Research:
Philosophy of Law (including philosophy of criminal law, private law, and public law); moral and political philosophy more generally.
