🚨 Just out in Jurisprudence: a special issue, edited by D. Dyzenhaus and G.B. Ratti, devoted to the close relationship between HLA Hart and Norberto Bobbio.

It comprises a.o. the translations into English of five essays by Bobbio, substantial excerpts from the Hart-Bobbio correspondence...

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Academics are supposed to find counterintuitive, nonobvious truths. But much of my work consists of defending intuitive, seemingly obvious ideas, against experts and elites who reject them: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Are you interested in the Joint Session but not able to attend in person? This year, we will be live-streaming the Joint Session symposia so that people who are not at the conference but are interested in hearing those talks can join via Zoom.
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The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy continues to grow - welcome Leah! And more news to follow...

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This Thursday (3 July), Jed Lewinsohn (Pitt) will be presenting his draft paper 'The Artificial Character of Preempetive Obligation' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be an exciting discussion! Register here: t.co/xRvvJjuPB4

I recently read and enjoyed a dialogue on why it is we have philosophy grad school and what it achieves. So I thought I would shamelessly copy the format and theme for my own blog! So, here's some imaginary people discussing why have philosophy grad school.

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Back from a social media break to share a new piece on the Raz-Hart debate. Thank you to so many who helped with this project, especially @glexareen.bsky.social and @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social. I'm working on a follow up, there's much more to say on all this.

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Terrific paper. Download it while it's hot!

Join our Law, Ethics & Justice seminar next week!

Hasan Dindjer (University of Oxford): ‘The Law’s False Promise’

🗓️ 10 June - 4:00pm (London time) - hybrid!

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From @mattzwolinski.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net, on the libertarians who hate the state more than they love liberty and how they've failed to stand against (rather, they've often cheered for) authoritarianism.

My initial comments on today's big ruling in our case against Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, with key excerpts from the decision: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

This Friday (23 May), Linda Eggert (Oxford) will be presenting her paper 'Differences Wrongdoing Makes' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be an exciting discussion! Register here: bit.ly/448hFJW

Looks like a fabulous set of events for this year's Legal Theory Festival. The programme is available here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/.... Please repost and share widely!

The problem of constitutional law, in a nutshell:

Simon Palmer (Surrey) is presenting his "Do Triggerable Reasons Explain Legal Authority?" this Friday (09/05) at the Legal Philosophy Trident Seminar Series. This promises to be excellent. Registration and more info here: forms.gle/5GmRvPW7aepj...

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Very impressive collection, in honour of Joseph Raz, now published in electronic form.

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Next Friday (9 May), Simon Palmer will be presenting his paper 'Do Triggerable Reasons Explain Legal Authority?' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be an exciting discussion!

Register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w

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Can I print this out and send it back to approximately 10,000 people in a time machine?

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The Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group Term Card for Trinity Term 2025 is out! 🎉

Seminars will take place at Balliol College's Massey Room unless otherwise indicated ☝🏻

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This is great fun from Joe Heath, and explains why political philosophers (me included) get so annoyed by this weirdly ubiquitous and misleading meme, and all this mystifying and imprecise talk of 'equity'.
A great public service. Please read it!

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I'm delighted that my review of Bruno Celano's semi-posthumous book on Hart is now published (online) in Jurisprudence.

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Nice try everyone thinks they can get out with "just be pragmatist then the issue goes away!" but, of course, about 12 of the views in the debate are various people trying to spell that out and it turns out they all have their own difficulties. There is no escape nothing will work this is hell.

On 28 March, Daniel Wodak will be presenting his paper 'Malapportionment: A Murder Mystery' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion!

Register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w