Faculty Oversight Committee
Ruth Chang (Oxford)
Ruth Chang is the Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence and a Professorial Fellow of University College. Before coming to Oxford, she was Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in New Jersey, USA. Before that she was a visiting philosophy professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a visiting law professor at the University of Chicago. During this period she also held a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College where she was completing her D.Phil. in philosophy. She has held fellowships at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and the National Humanities Center and serves on boards of a number of journals. She has a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Matthew Kramer (Cambridge)
Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is the Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy. He is the author of 19 books and the co-editor of four additional books. His work is celebrated in a lengthy festschrift – Without Trimmings: The Legal, Political, and Moral Philosophy of Matthew Kramer – published in early 2022 by the Oxford University Press. His work covers many areas of political, moral, and legal philosophy. His most recently published book is Rights and Right-Holding (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Massimo Renzo (King's College London)
Massimo Renzo is Professor of Politics, Philosophy & Law at King’s. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the universities of Virginia and Arizona, the Murphy Institute, the National University of Singapore and the Nathanson Centre for Transnational Human Rights, Crime & Security. He is an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War & Peace and the Honorary Secretary of the Society for Applied Philosophy. He is also one of the editors of the journal Criminal Law & Philosophy. He works primarily in legal and political philosophy. His main research interests are in the problems of political authority, international justice and the philosophical foundations of the criminal law.
Lea Ypi (London School of Economics)
Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department, London School of Economics, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Before joining the LSE, she was a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford) and a researcher at the European University Institute where she obtained her PhD. She has degrees in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and has held visiting and research positions at Sciences Po, the University of Frankfurt, the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, the Australian National University and the Italian Institute for Historical Studies.
Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco (Surrey)
Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco is the inaugural holder of the Chair of Moral and Political Philosophy (Jurisprudence) in the School of Law, University of Surrey and member of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy. She studied law at Oxford University (MJur, Balliol College) and legal philosophy at the University of Cambridge (PhD, Corpus Christi College). Her research is located at the intersection of practical reason, philosophy of action and law. She draws insights from ancient, medieval and contemporary moral psychology and action theory to illuminate the nature of private law, legal authority and normativity. Her research has been published in leading journals and she is the author of the monograph ‘Law and Authority Under the Guise of the Good’, where she argues that the understanding of the structure of practical reason sheds light on legal authority and normativity.
Noam Gur (Queen Mary University of London)
Noam Gur is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Law at Queen Mary University of London. He specializes in jurisprudence and has further research interests in political philosophy and tort theory. In jurisprudence, his primary research focus is the normativity of law and its interaction with practical reason, which is also the topic of his book Legal Directives and Practical Reasons (Oxford University Press, 2018). Dr Gur teaches the Jurisprudence and Legal Theory module, and has previously also taught the Tort Law module. Before joining Queen Mary, Dr Gur was a postdoctoral fellow at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He read Law as a postgraduate at the University of Oxford and as an undergraduate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Ulrike Heuer (University College London)
Ulrike Heuer is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at University College London (UCL). Before going to London, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds and before that an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Even earlier, she has held some fixed-term positions at Columbia University, and at Barnard College, New York, as well as at Balliol College, Oxford. She has also been a faculty fellow at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (2008-9) and at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute at Tulane University, New Orleans (2003-4). In 2014-15, she was a Guest Research Professor at the University of Vienna as part of the ERC funded project Distortions of Normativity.
Kenneth Ehrenberg (Surrey)
Professor Kenneth Ehrenberg started with the School of Law in 2017 and is Co-Director of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy. Prior to that he held appointments in philosophy and law at the University of Alabama and at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 2010, he was HLA Hart Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Law. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University and a JD from Yale Law School.
