John Gardner (legal philosopher)
John Gardner FBA (23 March 1965 – 11 July 2019) was a Scottish legal philosopher. He was senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, and prior to that the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and a fellow of University College, Oxford.
John Gardner | |
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Gardner in 2018 | |
| Born | 25 March 1965 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Died | 11 July 2019 (aged 54) |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic Legal positivism |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
Main interests | Legal philosophy Criminal law Tort law |
Life and career Edit
John Blair Gardner[1] was born in Glasgow on 23 March 1965, the elder of two sons, to William Russell Williamson Gardner and Sylvia Gardner (née Hayward-Jones).[2][3][4] His parents were both 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 University of Oxford, Gardner received his BA, BCL (winning the Vinerian Scholarship), MA, and 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]
Honours and awards Edit
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 Edit
Books Edit
- 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 8 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine
References Edit
- ^ a b "John Blair Gardner". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ a b Lacey, Nicola (22 July 2019). "John Gardner obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ "Obituary: John Gardner". The Times. 2 August 2019. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ a b c d "John Gardner 1965 - 2019". Oxford Law Faculty. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Obituary: John Gardner, internationally-renowned legal philosopher". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ a b "John Gardner 1965 - 2019". Oxford Law Faculty. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
- ^ a b c . users.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ a b . Oxford Law Faculty. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ "RIP John Gardner". University College Oxford. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "John Gardner 1965-2019 - Brasenose College, Oxford". www.bnc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "OBITUARY: Talented academic was a familiar face in West Oxford". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ 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,.. "
- ^ "Professor John Gardner". The British Academy. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ Collins, Hugh; Duff, Antony. "Gardner, John, 1965-2019" (PDF). The British Academy. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Gardner, John (1 April 2012). "In Defence of Offences and Defences". Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies. 4 (1): 110–128. doi:10.1093/jrls/4.1.110. ISSN 2219-7125.
- ^ Bix, B. (2013). Law as a Leap of Faith: Essays on Law in General. By JOHN GARDNER. [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 314 pp. Hardback £39.99. ISBN: 978-0-19-969555-3.].The Cambridge Law Journal, 72(2), 443-446. doi:10.1017/S0008197313000573 [author copy at Academia.Edu]
- ^ McBride, Nicholas J. (2019). "From Personal Life to Private Law. By John Gardner. [Oxford University Press, 2018. viii + 242 pp. Hardback £29.99. ISBN 978-01-98818-75-5.]" (PDF). The Cambridge Law Journal. 78 (1): 217–219. doi:10.1017/S0008197319000035. ISSN 0008-1973. S2CID 151076009.
- ^ Gardner, John (18 February 2020). Torts and Other Wrongs. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-885294-0.
External links Edit
Obituaries Edit
- John Gardner 1965 - 2019: An Appreciation (University of Oxford Law Faculty) Summary by Sandy Steele (12 July 2019)
- John Gardner 1965 - 2019 University of Oxford Law Faculty obituary by Annalise Acorn (17 July 2019)
- John Gardner obituary by Nicola Lacey for The Guardian (22 July 2019)
- Obituary: John Gardner, internationally-renowned legal philosopher by Colin Kidd for The Herald (24 July 2019)
- Obituary: John Gardner in The Times (2 August 2019)
- John Gardner: Academic who shone in the field of legal philosophy obituary in The Independent by Stephen Shute and Annalise Acorn (9 August 2019)
Interviews Edit
- (2019) interview by Carolina Flores.[text]
- (2018) John Gardner and Timothy Macklem discuss Joseph Raz [video]
- (2017) Law as a Leap of Faith: John Gardner interviewed by Richard Marshall [text]
- (2012) Interview with John Gardner, by Diego Papayannis [video]
- (2013) John Gardner on Constitutions with Philosophy Bites [audio]
- (2010) Radio New Zealand National “Nine to Noon” interview on the morality of policing. [audio]
Lectures (video/podcast) Edit
- The Aristotelian Society presents: Professor John Gardner (Oxford) – Discrimination: The Good, the Bad, and the Wrongful (podcast, 2017)
- John Gardner on "What is Legal Pluralism?" (Osgoode Hall Law School, 8 May 2013) (Video) [also hosted here on Youtube]
Further resources Edit
- University of Oxford profile 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 Edit
(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)
- papers in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, including On the Ground of Her Sex(uality) (1988) which was cited in the landmark Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India ruling
- Legal Positivism: 5 1/2 Myths, (2001) American Journal of Jurisprudence: Vol. 46 : Iss. 1 , Article 12 [PDF view/download]
- 'Simply In Virtue of Being Human' The Whos and Whys of Human Rights (2007) Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol 2 No 2 (2007): Volume II, Issue 2 [PDF download]