Andreas Vassiliou

Andreas Vassiliou is the Darby Fellow in Law at Lincoln College since 2024.

His research interests concern philosophy of practical reason, jurisprudence, and theory of criminal law.

He completed his DPhil in Law thesis under the supervision of Prof. Nicos Stavropoulos in 2023. His thesis From Reasons to Rules uses as a foil Joseph Raz's exclusion model to argue that the standard view of practical reason, the balance model, can offer a superior account of the normative imprint of various phenomena, from personal decisions and voluntary undertakings to authoritative directives and rules.

Prior to his doctoral research, he read for his LLB and his LLM in philosophy of law at the University of Athens and then moved to Oxford for his MJur.

Selected Publications

Andreas Vassiliou, ‘Three Balance Models’ (2026) Ethics (forthcoming)

Andreas Vassiliou, ‘Reasons, Mistakes, and Excuses’ (2026) Modern Law Review (forthcoming)

Andreas Vassiliou, ‘The Normativity of Law: Has the Dispositional Model Solved our Problem?’ (2022) 42 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 943