Thomas Adams

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, as well as on theoretical aspects of constitutional and administrative law. Tom has written on foundational issues in jurisprudence including the rule of law, the relevance of coercion to law, legal positivism, and the nature of legal systems. In public law, he has written on the nature of human rights, parliamentary sovereignty, the ontology of unlawful acts and decisions, and courts' power to strike down legislation. Most recently, he has been working on a project on the nature of constitutional 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.