Filipa Paes

Filipa is a DPhil Candidate at Hertford College, supervised by Professor Timothy Endicott.

Filipa’s research focuses on law and language (legal interpretation and drafting), the rule of law, and legal epistemology, paying particular attention to arbitrariness in judicial decision-making and ambiguity in language. In particular, Filipa is interested in questions of degree that arise in law and legal contexts.

Her wider research interests fall within analytic jurisprudence, philosophy of language, epistemology and private law theory. Filipa is a founding and executive member of The Collective of Women in Legal Philosophy, a group created to promote and support women in legal philosophy and legal theory, and currently co-convenes the Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group (2023-2025).

In the 2024-2025 academic year, Filipa will be tutoring in Jurisprudence at St. Hilda's College, Jesus College and Hertford College.