We are delighted to announce that Hrafn Asgeirsson and Kenneth Ehrenberg, both of the University of Surrey School of Law, are the new Co-Directors of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy (SCLP). Hrafn Asgeirsson’s research interests lie primarily in analytic legal philosophy, metaethics, philosophy of language, and questions in the interstices of these. His […]
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SCLP Collaborates on Major Grant Award in Law and Philosophy
The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy at the School of Law will collaborate on a 200.000 EUR “Law-Language-Philosophy Research Network” grant awarded by the Polish grant agency NAWA with the Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy (at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow). The other international partners are Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, University of Milan, and University of Zagreb. The […]
Announcing the 2018-19 Hart Seminar Series
The Surrey Centre for Law & Philosophy is proud to announce the 2018-19 Hart Seminar Series, generously sponsored in part by Hart Publishing: 10 October: Leslie Green (Oxford) 17 October: Alice Pinheiro Walla (Bayreuth) 24 October: David-Hillel Ruben (Birkbeck) 7 November: Detlef von Daniels (Berlin-Brandenburg) 5 December: Constantine Sandis (Hertfordshire) 23 January: Dennis Patterson (Surrey/Rutgers) 30 January: Stanley […]
Dr. Alexander Sarch Advises Judges to Avoid Excessive Punishments
In a paper published by the Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, Dr. Alexander Sarch of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy and coauthor Daniel Wodak argue for strategies to help judges resolve conflicts between their morals and the letter of the law. The paper uses mandatory minimum sentences as a case study of one […]
Prof. Ryan Abbott Speaks at Stanford Robotics Conference
On 13–14 April 2018, Professor Ryan Abbott was an invited speaker at the 7th Annual Conference on Robotics, Law & Policy (We Robot 2018) at Stanford Law School. Professor Abbott discussed two of his forthcoming papers, “Should Robots Pay Taxes? Tax Policy in the Age of Automation”, forthcoming this month in the Harvard Law & […]
Ryan Abbott Featured at the International Conference on Intellectual Property
On 1 February 2018, Professor Ryan Abbott was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Intellectual Property in the New Technological Order co-sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) at the Skolkovo Innovation Center in Moscow, Russian Federation. Professor Abbott discussed intellectual property protection […]
Announcing the 2017-18 Hart Seminar Series
The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy is delighted to announce its line-up for its 2017-18 Hart Seminar Series, made possible in part by a grant from Hart Publishing: 18 October 2017: Massimo Renzo, King College London 15 November 2017: Christopher Essert, Queen’s College, Canada 13 December 2017: George Letsas, University College London 29 January […]
New Deputy Director for the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy
The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy has a new Deputy Director! Dr. Ira Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer in Tax Law and Ethics at the University of Surrey School of Law. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College in the Department of Philosophy and the Political Economy Project, a tax attorney at […]
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Surrey Law Professor gives TRT World interview on Bitcoin
Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law, has been interviewed on TRT World: Insight about Bitcoin and Blockchain. Professor Abbott discussed these foundational technologies and their potential to revolutionise social, legal, and financial relationships. Professor Abbott is an expert in emerging technologies, and described how Blockchain […]