Leslie Green
Professor of the Philosophy of Law*
Les Green is the Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College. He also holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Law and Distinguished University Fellow at Queen's University in Canada. After beginning his teaching career as a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, he moved to Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He has also been a visiting professor at many other law faculties, including Berkeley, NYU, Chicago and, for some years, at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Green writes and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional theory, and moral and political philosophy. He serves on the board of several journals and is co-editor of the annual Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law and of the book series Oxford Legal Philosophy.
Publications
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2013
L Green, 'Sex-Neutral Marriage' in J Feinberg, J Coleman, and C Kutz (eds), Philosophy of Law (Cengage Learning 2013) (forthcoming)
2012
L Green, 'Introduction to the Concept of Law' in The Concept of Law, 3rd Edition (Oxford University Press 2012)
L Green, 'Jurisprudence for Foxes' (2012) Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper [...]
This paper contests Brian Simpson's claim that HLA Hart's book, The Concept of Law, is that of a 'hedgehog,' that is, a monistic thinker. It is not. Hart's work is pluralist both in its explanatory concepts and in its evaluative background. Some conjectures are offered as to why Simpson so misunderstood Hart, and as to why analytic legal philosophy is misunderstood, or distrusted, more generally.
L Green, 'Jurisprudence for Foxes' (2012) 3 Transnational Legal Theory 150 [...]
This paper contests Brian Simpson's claim that HLA Hart's book, The Concept of Law, is that of a 'hedgehog,' that is, a procrustean and monistic thinker. It is not. Hart's work is pluralist both in its explanatory concepts and in its evaluative background. It is, of course, a philosophical book; but that is not enough to make it monistic. Some conjectures are offered as to why Simpson so badly misunderstood Hart, and as to why analytic legal philosophy is misunderstood, or distrusted, more generally.
L Green, 'Obscenity without Borders' in F Tanguay-Renaud and J Stribopolous (eds), Rethinking Criminal Law Theory ( 2012)
News
Celebration of H L A Hart's The Concept of Law
On Monday, February 25, Professor Leslie Green attended a celebration at Queens University, Canada to mark the recent publication of the third edition of H L A Hart's The Concept of Law (OUP 2012) [more…]
Interests
Teaching: Philosophy of Law; Human Rights Law
Research: Legal Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Theory, Human Rights
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Balliol College
Oxford OX1 3BJ
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