New Professor of Jurisprudence

Dr John Gardner, BCL, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Legal Philosophy at King's College, London, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, has been appointed to the Professorship of Jurisprudence. Dr Gardner (pictured left) will be a Fellow of University College when he takes up his appointment on 1 October 2000, following the retirement of Professor Ronald Dworkin. Dr Gardner read Jurisprudence at New College, Oxford (1983–6), then studied for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law as a Fellow at All Souls College, being awarded the Vinerian Scholarship for the best overall performance in the BCL examinations in 1987. Having been called to the bar in 1988, he was awarded his D.Phil. from Oxford in 1995, for a thesis entitled `Responsibility and Practical Evaluation'. Dr Gardner has held academic appointments as a Fellow of All Souls College (1986–91), Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College with an associated CUF Lectureship (1991–6) and most recently as Reader in Legal Philosophy at the University of London. He is a member of the editorial board of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and the editorial advisory board of Legal Theory. His own publications have traversed the philosophical foundations of criminal law, anti-discrimination law, and lately the law of torts. While continuing to explore these avenues, he is currently trying to put the finishing touches to a work of pure moral philosophy called Wrongdoing and Responsibility, for publication by Oxford University Press.