Binesh Hass

Binesh Hass (BA Toronto, LLB London, MSt DPhil Oxf) is a Departmental Lecturer in Law at the University of Oxford. He teaches broadly in jurisprudence, constitutional law, tort law, contract law, medical ethics and law, and criminal law.

Binesh’s research encompasses a number of topics in law and philosophy, including (i) capacity and rationality; (ii) authority and rules; and (iii) intention in both public and private law.

Prior to rejoining the Faculty of Law, Binesh was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy’s Uehiro Centre, where he founded and continues to convene the Ethics and Law Lectures, which brings together philosophers and lawyers in a speaker–respondent format on questions of common interest.

Book

Hass, B. Mind and Reason in Capacity Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) (abstract)

Selected Articles

Hass, B. ‘Reasonableness in Capacity Law’ (2023) 86 Modern Law Review 1447 (Open Access)

Hass, B. ‘The Opaqueness of Rules’ (2021) 41 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 407

Other Articles and Chapters

Hass, B. ‘AI and Discriminatory Intent’ in D Edmonds (ed), AI Morality (Oxford University Press 2024)

Hass, B and Wilkinson, D. ‘Disentangling Normativity and Ethics’(2023) 23 American Journal of Bioethics 29

Hass, B. ‘Reasoning and Reversibility in Capacity Law’ (2023) 49 Journal of Medical Ethics 439

Hass, B. ‘The Values and Rules of Capacity Assessments’ (2022) 48 Journal of Medical Ethics 816

Hass, B. ‘The Methods of Normativity’ (2017) 30 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 159