John Gardner (legal philosopher)

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John Gardner

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John Gardner

Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and a fellow of University College, Oxford
.

Life and career

John Blair Gardner

Germanists.[4] His mother was a secondary school teacher[5] and his father was a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Chairman of the city's Goethe-Institut.[4]

John Gardner attended

Glasgow Academy from 1970 to 1982.[6][7] He won (in 1982) a place to study modern languages at New College but switched to law before his first term (in 1983) began.[4][1]

At the

DPhil, under the supervision of Joseph Raz and Tony Honoré. He was associated with New College (as a student, 1983–7), All Souls College (as a fellow, 1986–1991, 1998–2000 and 2016–2019), and Brasenose College (as a fellow, 1991–1996).[7] From 1996 to 2000 he was reader in legal philosophy at King's College London.[8]

In 2000, at the age of just 35, he was appointed

Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, taking over the chair previously held by H. L. A. Hart and Ronald Dworkin.[9][10] In order to dedicate more time to his research he resigned the chair in 2016 and returned to All Souls as a senior research fellow.[5]

Gardner died of cancer in July 2019, aged 54.[2][11]

Honours and awards

Gardner held several visiting positions, including at Columbia (2000), Yale (2002–3, 2005), Princeton (2008), the Australian National University (2003, 2006, 2008), and most recently Cornell (2015).[8][7] A (non-practising) barrister since 1988, Gardner was elected an (Academic or Honorary) Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (one of the Inns of Court) in 2003.[12][6] He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2013.[13][14]

Bibliography

Books

  • Offences and Defences: Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Criminal Law (2007)[15]
  • Law as a Leap of Faith: Essays on Law in General (2012)[16]
  • From Personal Life to Private Law (2018)[17]
  • Torts and other Wrongs (2020)[18]

Full list of publications at Gardner's Faculty Homepage Archived 8 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine

References

  1. ^ a b "John Blair Gardner". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  2. ^
    ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  3. ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d "John Gardner 1965 - 2019". Oxford Law Faculty. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Obituary: John Gardner, internationally-renowned legal philosopher". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  6. ^ a b "John Gardner 1965 - 2019". Oxford Law Faculty. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  7. ^ a b c "John Gardner at Home". users.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  8. ^ a b "John Gardner". Oxford Law Faculty. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  9. ^ "RIP John Gardner". University College Oxford. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  10. ^ "John Gardner 1965-2019 - Brasenose College, Oxford". www.bnc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  11. ^ "OBITUARY: Talented academic was a familiar face in West Oxford". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  12. ^ Death Notices - Inner Temple (as accessed 26 August 2019) "Professor John Gardner, Master of the Bench, sadly died on Thursday 11 July 2019. The Inn’s flag flew at half-mast on Friday 19 July in his memory... Master Gardner was a Professor of Law and Philosophy and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1988 and elected as an Academic Bencher in 2003. A funeral service will be held for Master Gardner at All Souls College Chapel on Thursday 25 July at 11am,.. "
  13. ^ "Professor John Gardner". The British Academy. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  14. ^ Collins, Hugh; Duff, Antony. "Gardner, John, 1965-2019" (PDF). The British Academy. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  15. ISSN 2219-7125
    .
  16. The Cambridge Law Journal, 72(2), 443-446. doi:10.1017/S0008197313000573 [author copy at Academia.Edu
    ]
  17. S2CID 151076009
    .
  18. ISBN 978-0-19-885294-0
    .

External links

Obituaries

Interviews

Lectures (video/podcast)

Further resources

  • University of Oxford profile Archived 8 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine (short biography, full list of publications, research interests).
  • Personal home page (which includes 'post preprints' (completed but pre-refereed versions) of all his book reviews, of some of his articles and chapters, of interviews and memoirs plus links to video and audio broadcasts).

Open access papers

(Incomplete list) [also see homepage 'publications' and Gardner's Academia.edu page for Preprints/drafts]

see Gardner's

SSRN author page for papers free for PDF download (or browser viewing with registration) titles include Law as a Leap of Faith
(2000)

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