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Timothy Endicott has been Dean of the Faculty of Law since October 2007. He is a Fellow in Law at Balliol College, and has been a Professor of Legal Philosophy since 2006. Professor Endicott writes on Jurisprudence and Constitutional and Administrative Law, with special interests in law and language and interpretation.
He is the author of Vagueness in Law (OUP 2000), and Administrative Law (OUP 2009). After graduating with the AB in Classics and English, summa cum laude, from Harvard, he completed the MPhil in Comparative Philology in Oxford, studied Law at the University of Toronto, and practised as a litigation lawyer in Toronto. He completed the DPhil in legal philosophy in Oxford in 1998.
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TAO Endicott, 'Adjudication and the Law' (2007) 27 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 311
TAO Endicott, Administrative Law (2nd edn, OUP 2011)
TAO Endicott, 'Are There Any Rules?' (2001) 5 Journal of Ethics 199 [...]
Responds to Ronald Dworkin's claim that what he calls the "model of rules" cannot account for controversy over legal rights and duties. I give an account of social rules that explains why such controversy is common, and can be deep. So controversy gives no reason to reject the model of rules. [there is a reply by Ronald Dworkin at p.263 of the issue].
ISBN: 1382-4554
TAO Endicott, 'Constitutional Logic' (2003) 53 University of Toronto Law Journal 201 [Review] [...]
Review article on Mark Elliott, The Constitutional Foundations of Judicial Review (Hart 2001).
ISBN: 0042-0220
TAO Endicott, 'Form and substance in the rule of law' (2010) Per Incuriam (the Cambridge University law students’ magazine) 23 [...]
A contribution to a debate with Professor T.R.S.Allan about the rule of law.
On 15-17 May 2013 Professor Timothy Endicott attended the St Petersburg International Legal Forum and took part in the Plenary Session 'Competition and Cooperation between Legal Systems', and in a roundtable discussion on legal education [more…]
Teaching: Constitutional and Administrative Law; Philosophy of Law
Research: Jurisprudence, Public Law, Law and Language
Chair of the Law Board, ex officio
Chair of the Faculty, ex officio
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Oxford OX1 3BJ
