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 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 the University of Chicago Law School.
Publications
Adams T, “Coercive Law” [2022] Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Adams T, “The Efficacy Condition” (2020) 25 Legal Theory 225
Green L and Adams T, “Legal Positivism” [2019] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Adams T, “Review of Legislated Rights” [2019] Cambridge Law Journal
Adams T, “Ultra Vires Revisited” (2018) 2018 Public Law 31
Adams T, “Law’s Umpire” [2017] Jurisprudence
Adams T, “The Standard Theory of Administrative Unlawfulness” (2017) 76 Cambridge Law Journal 289
Adams T, “Stumbling Towards the Constitution” [2016] Cambridge Law Journal
Adams T, “Review of Andrei Marmor’s The Language of Law” [2015] Law Quarterly Review
Adams T, “Is There a Naturalistic Alternative? Realism, Replacement, and the Theory of Adjudication” (2014) 27 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 311
Adams T, “Consent to Govern”
Adams T, “A Puzzle from Anisminic”
Adams T, “Is There a Mandate Here?”
Adams T, “The Politics of Judicial Power”
Adams T, “Wade’s Factortame”
Adams T, “Royal Consent and Hidden Power”
Adams T, “Lord Sumption and Judicial Responsibility”