Thomas Adams
Associate Professor of Law
Biography
Tom is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law as well as a Tutorial Fellow at St Catherine's College. He works in the philosophy of law, with special interest in questions relating to social ontology, as well as on theoretical aspects of constitutional and administrative law.
Tom read for the BA in Jurisprudence and BCL at St Peter's College, Oxford. He then went on to complete the DPhil in Law at Balliol College, Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Leslie Green. Prior to coming to St Catherine's Tom was a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He has held visiting positions at New York University School of Law and University of Chicago Law School.
Publications
Adams T, ‘Criteria of Validity’ [2024] The Modern Law Review
Adams T, ‘Coercive Law’ [2022] Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Adams T, ‘The Efficacy Condition’ [2020] Legal Theory
Green L and Adams T, ‘Legal Positivism’ [2019] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Adams T, ‘Ultra Vires Revisited’ [2018] Public Law
Adams T, ‘Law’s Umpire’ [2017] Jurisprudence
Adams T, ‘The Standard Theory of Administrative Unlawfulness’ (2017) 76(2) Cambridge Law Journal 289
Adams T, ‘Is there a Naturalistic Alternative? Realism, Replacement, and the Theory of Adjudication’ (2014) 27(2) Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 311
ADAMS T, ‘Practice and Theory in The Concept of Law’, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law (2022)
Adams T, ‘The Rule of Law and Respect for Persons’ in M Walters and G Cartier (eds.), The Promise of Legality: Critical Reflections upon the Work of TRS Allan (Bloomsbury 2022)
Adams T, ‘The Judiciary’ in M Garnett and H Pilmoor (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of British Politics and Society (Routledge 2020)
ADAMS T, ‘Legitimacy and the Authority of the State’, The Morality in Law: Themes from the Work of Leslie Green (Oxford University Press)
Adams T, ‘Social Roles and Social Construction: A Comment on Letsas’ Inherently Normative Social Roles’ in N Stavropoulos (ed.), Interpretivism and its Critics
ADAMS T, The Morality in Law: Themes from the Work of Leslie Green (Oxford University Press)
Adams T, ‘Consent to Govern’ (Verfassungsblog, 1 January 2021)
Dindjer H, Adams T and Perry A, ‘Showcase–New Directions in Administrative Law Theory’ (ICONnect: Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, 8 September 2019)
Adams T, ‘A Puzzle from Anisminic’ (Administrative Law in the Common Law World, 1 March 2017)
Adams T, ‘Is There a Mandate Here?’ (United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association, 1 July 2016)
Adams T, ‘The Politics of Judicial Power’ (United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association, 1 November 2015)
Adams T, ‘Wade’s Factortame’ (United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association, 1 February 2014)
Adams T, ‘Royal Consent and Hidden Power’ (United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association, 1 February 2013)
Adams T, ‘Lord Sumption and Judicial Responsibility’ (United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association, 1 January 2012)
Adams T, ‘Review of Legislated Rights’ [2019] Cambridge Law Journal (review)
Adams T, ‘Review of Andrei Marmor’s The Language of Law’ [2015] Law Quarterly Review (review)
Adams T, ‘Stumbling Towards the Constitution’ [2016] Cambridge Law Journal (case-note)