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Workshop on General Jurisprudence
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Visiting PhD Fellows for 2025
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Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí,
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Surrey is Hiring!
Surrey is hiring! The School of Law, University of Surrey is looking to appoint three Lecturers/Senior Lecturers who can teach core law modules and contribute to Surrey’s excellent academic community. If you are on the academic job market in the UK, you should definitely consider applying. It’s also a great opportunity to join the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy!
https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=14748&forced=2
https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=14747&forced=2
https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=14746&forced=2
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Workshop on Criminal Law Theory
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Christopher Taggart published an article in Synthese Journal
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 Franklin summarizes the standard argument for an agent-causal libertarian account of free will and formulates an alternative, which he calls the ‘It Ain’t Me’ argument. The latter relies on agent-causal libertarianism’s causal non-reductivism. Franklin suggests that agent-causal libertarians should support their position by defending a nonreductive agent-causal account of reasons-responsive agency instead of employing the standard argument. This paper summarizes a proposed agent-causal account of free will; argues for a nonreductive agent-causal account of reasons-responsive agency in doing so; and supports the proposed account with a variant of Franklin’s ‘It Ain’t Me’ argument.Keywords: ACT Libertarianism · Free will · Agency · Causal non-reductivism
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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
- Lucas Miotto (PhD, Edinburgh) – Jurisprudence, Coercion, Global health justice, Digital ethics
Sebastian joins us as Surrey Future Fellow (permanent track), from the University of Oxford and the University of Notre Dame in England, where he is currently Lecturer in Law at Oriel College and Global Associate Professor of Law, respectively; Conor as Senior Lecturer, from the University of Liverpool, where he is Lecturer in Law; and Lucas as Senior Lecturer, from Leeds Law School, where he is Senior Lecturer in Law.This will bring our Centre up to a total of 20 members, plus external affiliated people and PhD researchers. Welcome Sebastian, Conor, and Lucas! -
Online SCLP “taster” course in jurisprudence
The Centre has just launched a free “taster” course in jurisprudence on the online learning platform FutureLearn, covering topics in general, special, and applied jurisprudence. The course can start anytime and although it has a 5-week structure, it progresses at the learner’s own pace. The course is designed for anyone curious about how philosophical reflection can impact how we think about law and legal decision-making, but it will be especially useful for current or prospective law students looking to gain a basic understanding of the theories underlying law and legal systems to supplement or prepare for their studies.
The course design was led by SCLP Co-Director Dr Ken Ehrenberg, with further contributions by Prof Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, Prof Dennis Patterson, Dr Christopher Taggart, and Dr Hrafn Asgeirsson.
View the course here: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/general-jurisprudence
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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 2:1 Bachelors degree along with a Masters degree at a minimum of a merit level in Law or other relevant discipline. For more information on entry requirements, please click HERE.
We encourage applications of potential PhD candidates who would like to pursue research in the following areas, although interested applicants should also feel free to propose topics outside these areas, having considered supervisory expertise at Surrey:
a) Philosophy of criminal law
b) Research on practical agency, rationality and law
c) Questions at the intersection of emotions, legal theory and law
d) General jurisprudence
The deadline to apply to the Surrey Law PhD course is 24 January 2022. To express interest, please contact our Director of PhD Admissions, Dr Joshua Andresen (j.andresen@surrey.ac.uk).
The Techne consortium comprises nine universities in London and the South-East and has almost 60 AHRC studentships to award each year across a range of arts and humanities disciplines, including law. Initial applications are made through member universities rather than to Techne directly. Relevant applications first undergo an internal competition at Surrey and the University then puts forward a selection of projects for the Techne competition itself. For more information about Techne, please click HERE.