Our own Christopher Taggart has just published an article in Synthese titled “Supporting an agent-causal libertarian account of free will with a variant of Franklin’s ‘It Ain’t Me’ argument”. The article is open access, and you can check it out here: https://lnkd.in/d7bQZwRp Congrats Chris! What a wonderful achievement 🎉 🥂 Abstract and Keywords: Abstract Christopher […]
Three new appointments to the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy
We are delighted to announce three new appointments to the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy, all joining us over the course of the next couple of months (in the following order): Sebastian Lewis (DPhil, Oxford) – Jurisprudence, Legal reasoning, Public law Conor Casey (PhD, Trinity College Dublin) – Comparative public law, Legal theory, The natural law tradition […]
Call for interest in law and humanities PhD projects (Oct 2022 entry)
Passionate about issues at the intersection of law and humanities? The University of Surrey School of Law is seeking interested applicants for the AHRC Techne studentship competition, for entry in October 2022. Studentships cover full tuition fees (whether domestic or international) and an annual stipend of £15,609. Applicants are expected to hold at least a […]
Prof Giovanni Sartor appointed SCLP Visiting Professor in Law and Artificial Intelligence
The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy (SCLP) at the University of Surrey, School of Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Giovanni Sartor as Visiting Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence, starting Sept 1 2020. This is a three-year honorary appointment. Professor Sartor is one of the world’s leading researchers in the […]
SCLP Welcomes New Leadership
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
