Paul Cowie

Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at St Hilda's College

Paul Linton Cowie is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

He studied Law with European Law at Lincoln College, Oxford and Leiden University. He then studied philosophy and economics at a postgraduate level at both New York University and Harvard, and has been a visiting research student at both the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge and the Northern Institute of Philosophy, Aberdeen. He returned to Oxford in 2010 to conduct a doctorate in legal philosophy.

His research focuses on the theoretical relationship between legal philosophy (primarily human rights) and economic philosophy (primarily welfare economics). He has also worked in moral philosophy on the relation between reasons, rationality and morality.

He teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Jurisprudence for St Hilda?s College. He also teaches Moral and Political Philosophy for the Law Faculty.