School of Law

Professor George Pavlakos

Professor of Law and Philosophy (School of Law)

telephone: +441413307164
email: Georgios.Pavlakos@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

George Pavlakos is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the School of Law, University of Glasgow. From 2007 to 2016 he was Research Professor of Globalisation and Legal Theory and director of the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. From this position he attracted and managed a number of substantial research grants with a combined budget of €1.9 Million. Since 2012 he has been consulting director of the Centre for Law and Public Affairs, Institute of State and Law, The Czech Academy of Sciences.

His most important personal research awards include two Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships, an FWO-Odysseus grant, a J.E. Purkyne Senior Research Fellowship (Czech Academy of Sciences) and a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship (EUI, Florence). In recent years he has held visiting and part-time positions at the Universities of Glasgow, Kiel, the UCLA Law School, the Cornell Law School and the Beihang Law School (Beijing).

His published work includes the monograph Our Knowledge of the Law (Hart Publishing, 2007) and he has recently edited Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is also general editor of the book series Law and Practical Reason at Hart Publishing and joint general editor of the journal Jurisprudence published by Routledge.

Research interests

Legal Theory and Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Metaethics, Discourse Theory, Egalitarianism, Globalisation

His published work includes the monograph Our Knowledge of the Law (Hart Publishing, 2007) and has recently edited Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is also general editor of the book series Law and Practical Reason at Hart Publishing and joint general editor of the journal Jurisprudence published by Routledge.

Selected publications

Pavlakos, G. (2012) Correctness and Cognitivism: Remarks on Robert Alexy's argument from the claim to correctness. Ratio Juris, 25(1), pp. 15-30. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9337.2011.00500.x)

Pavlakos, G. (2011) Constitutional rights, balancing, and the structure of autonomy. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 24(1), pp. 129-154.

Pavlakos, G. and Pauwelyn, J. (2011) Principled monism and the normative conception of coercion under international law. In: Evans, M. and Koutrakos, P. (eds.) Beyond the Established Legal Orders: Policy interconnections between the EU and the rest of the world. Hart: Oxford, pp. 317-341. ISBN 9781849461481

Pavlakos, G. (2008) Rechtsontologie und Practische Vernunft [Legal Ontology and Practical Reason]. Series: Studien zur Rechtsphilosophie und Rechtstheorie, 46. Nomos: Baden Baden. ISBN 9783832931582

Supervision

Miguel Angel Garcia Godinez - 'Demystifying the normative character of law'

Ann Luk - 'Psychology and Law'

Rachael Mellin - 'A metaphysical explanation of legal organisations as planning groups'

Corsino San Miguel - 'Towards a dogmatic solution for error of law in Scotland'

Federico Szczaranski - 'Norms and legal reasoning in judicial review'

Cenay Akin (Antwerp) - 'Parent company liability for human rights and environmental law violations committed by subsidiaries: Recognising legal and normative aspects'

Sebastian Baldinger (Antwerp) - 'Understanding Laws and the Laws of Understanding. From Statutory Semantics to Normative Legal Content'

Samuele Chilovi (Barcelona) - 'Metaphysics of Law'

Georgia Du Plessis (Antwerp) - 'The Right to Religious Freedom and the Constitutionality of a South African Public School with a Religious Ethos'

Andrew Hadjigeorgiou (Antwerp) - 'The Legitimacy of Legal Obligation in the International Context. The approach of Justice as Justified Reality.'

Irem Kirak (Antwerp) - 'Progression in Global Democracy from Local Governments to Global Decision-making Mechanisms'

Umberto Sconfienza (Tilburg) - 'Environmental Blackmail? Justice, validity and effectiveness of “money-for-nature swap” policies'

All publications

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Number of items: 58.

2019

Chilovi, S. and Pavlakos, G. (2019) Law-determination as grounding: a common grounding framework for jurisprudence. Legal Theory, 25(1), pp. 53-76. (doi:0.1017/S1352325218000216)

2018

Pavlakos, G. (2018) 'Non-naturalism, normativity and the meaning of ‘ought’: Some lessons from Kelsen. In: Himma, K. E., Jovanovic, M. and Spaic, B. (eds.) Unpacking Normativity: Conceptual, Normative, and Descriptive Issues. Hart Publishing: Oxford, UK, pp. 77-94. ISBN 9781509916245

Pavlakos, G. (2018) Revamping associative obligations. In: Khurshid, S., Malik, L. and Rodriguez-Blanco, V. (eds.) Dignity in the Legal and Political Philosophy of Ronald Dworkin. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 337-360. ISBN 9780199484171

2017

Pavlakos, G. (2017) Why is willing irrelevant to the grounding on any obligation? Remarks on A. Ripstein’s conception of omni-lateral willing. In: Kisilevsky, S. and Stone, M. J. (eds.) Freedom and Force: Essays on Kant’s Legal Philosophy. Series: Law and practical reason. Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 113-127. ISBN 9781849463164

Pavlakos, G. (2017) From a pluralism of grounds to proto-legal relations: accounting for the grounds of obligations of justice. Ratio Juris, 30(1), pp. 59-74. (doi:10.1111/raju.12152)

Pavlakos, G. (2017) The metaphysics of law: from supervenience to rational justification. In: Brozek, B. (ed.) Supervenience and Normativity. Series: Law and philosophy library (120). Springer: Cham, Switzerland, pp. 139-160. ISBN 9783319610450 (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61046-7_8)

Pavlakos, G. (2017) A plea for moderate optimisation: On the structure of principles as interpersonal reasons. In: Browski, M., Paulson, S. L. and Sieckmann, J.-R. (eds.) Rechtsphilosophie und Grundrechtstheorie. Robert Alexys System. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, Germany, pp. 395-410.

2016

Pavlakos, G. (2016) New contours of legality: a discussion of Scott’s Shapiro’s legal positivism: introduction. Jurisprudence, 7(2), pp. 297-298. (doi:10.1080/20403313.2016.1190148)

Pavlakos, G. (2016) Why supra-national law is not the exception? On the grounds of legal obligations beyond the state. In: Priban, J. (ed.) Self-Constitution of European Society. Series: Applied legal philosophy. Routledge. ISBN 9781472458506

2015

Pavlakos, G. and Rodriguez-Blanco, V. (Eds.) (2015) Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107070721

Pavlakos, G. (2015) On second order morality. Jurisprudence, 6(2), pp. 276-297. (doi:10.1080/20403313.2015.1044318)

Pavlakos, G. (2015) Transnational legal responsibility: some preliminaries. In: Vandenhole, W. (ed.) Challenging Territoriality in Human Rights Law. Foundational Principles for a Multi Duty-Bearer Human Rights Regime. Series: Routledge research in human rights law. Routledge: New York, pp. 136-157. ISBN 9781138799455

Pavlakos, G. (2015) The relation between moral and legal obligation: an alternative Kantian reading. In: Pavlakos, G. and Rodriguez-Blanco, V. (eds.) Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 228-243. ISBN 9781107070721

2014

Pavlakos, G. (2014) Between reason and strategy: some reflections on the normativity of proportionality. In: Huscroft, G., Miller, B. W. and Webber, G. (eds.) Proportionality and the Rule of Law: Rights, Justification, Reasoning. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, p. 90. ISBN 9781107064072

2013

Pavlakos, G. (Ed.) (2013) Derecho, derechos y discurso: La filosofía jurídica de Robert Alexy. Universidad Externado de Colombia: Bogota. ISBN 9789587720501

Pavlakos, G. (2013) Normativity and reason-dependence: a comment on the nature of reasons. Politica e Società, 2013(3), pp. 449-474. (doi:10.4476/74761)

2012

Pavlakos, G. (2012) Correctness and Cognitivism: Remarks on Robert Alexy's argument from the claim to correctness. Ratio Juris, 25(1), pp. 15-30. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9337.2011.00500.x)

Pavlakos, G. (2012) Corrección y cognitivismo [trans. by G. Villa Rosas]. Doxa, 35, pp. 201-216.

Pavlakos, G. (2012) Legal obligation in the global context: some remarks on the boundaries and allegiances among persons beyond the state. Working Paper. European University Institute (EUI) / Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS).

2011

Pavlakos, G. and Pauwelyn, J. (2011) Principled monism and the normative conception of coercion under international law. In: Evans, M. and Koutrakos, P. (eds.) Beyond the Established Legal Orders: Policy interconnections between the EU and the rest of the world. Hart: Oxford, pp. 317-341. ISBN 9781849461481

Bertea, S. and Pavlakos, G. (Eds.) (2011) New Essays on the Normativity of Law. Series: Law and practical reason. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781849462389

Pavlakos, G. (2011) Constitutional rights, balancing, and the structure of autonomy. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 24(1), pp. 129-154.

Pavlakos, G. (2011) Law, normativity and the model of norms. In: Bertea, S. and Pavlakos, G. (eds.) New Essays on the Normativity of Law. Series: Law and practical reason (3). Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 246-280. ISBN 9781849462389

Pavlakos, G. and Bertea, S. (2011) Introduction. In: Bertea, S. and Pavlakos, G. (eds.) New Essays on the Normativity of Law. Series: Law and practical reason (3). Hart Publishing: Oxford, UK, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781849462389

Pavlakos, G. and Gkouvas, T. (2011) Preliminary remarks on a theory of legal normativity. In: Stelmach, J. and Brozek, B. (eds.) The Normativity of Law. Series: Studies in the philosophy of law (6). Copernicus Centre Press: Krakow, Poland, pp. 21-49. ISBN 9788362259168

2010

Pavlakos, G. (2010) Coercion and the grounds of legal obligation: Arthur Ripstein's Force and Freedom. Jurisprudence, 1(2), pp. 305-316. (doi:10.5235/204033210793524195)

2009

Pavlakos, G. (2009) Practice, reasons, and the agent's point of view. Ratio Juris, 22(1), pp. 74-94. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9337.2008.00413.x)

2008

De Feyter, K. and Pavlakos, G. (Eds.) (2008) The Tension between Group Rights and Human Rights: A Multi-disciplinary Approach. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781841138299

Pavlakos, G. (2008) Communitarianism. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. (eds.) New Oxford Companion to Law. Series: Oxford Companions. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 177-178. ISBN 9780199290543

Pavlakos, G. (2008) Non-individualism and rights. In: Feyter, K. d. and Pavlakos, G. (eds.) The Tension between Group Rights and Human Rights: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Series: Human rights law in perspective (13). Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 147-171. ISBN 9781841138299

Pavlakos, G. (2008) Non-individualism, rights and practical reason. Ratio Juris, 21(1), pp. 66-93.

Pavlakos, G. (2008) Rechtsontologie und Practische Vernunft [Legal Ontology and Practical Reason]. Series: Studien zur Rechtsphilosophie und Rechtstheorie, 46. Nomos: Baden Baden. ISBN 9783832931582

Pavlakos, G. [e.] (2008) Special Supplement on Jurisprudence. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 59(1), p. 147.

2007

Pavlakos, G. (Ed.) (2007) Law, Rights and Discourse: the Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy. Hart. ISBN 9781841136769

Pavlakos, G. (2007) Dio antilepseis peri antkeimenikotetas [Greek translation of Pavlakos, G. (2007): Two concepts of objectivity. In: Law, Rights and Discourse. The Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy]. EFARMOGES, pp. 339-373.

Pavlakos, G. (2007) Introduction. In: Pavlakos, G. (ed.) Law, Rights and Discourse. The Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy. Hart Publishing, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781841136769

Pavlakos, G. (2007) Our Knowledge of the Law: Objectivity and Practice in Legal Theory. Hart. ISBN 9781841135038

Pavlakos, G. (2007) Two conceptions of universalisation. Panóptica, 8, pp. 441-460.

Pavlakos, G. (2007) Two concepts of objectivity. In: Pavlakos, G. (ed.) Law, Rights and Discourse. The Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy. Hart Publishing, pp. 83-108. ISBN 9781841136769

2006

Pavlakos, G. (2006) Two conceptions of universalisation. In: Bankowski, Z. and MacLean, J. (eds.) The Universal and The Particular in Legal Reasoning. Series: Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society series. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 159-176. ISBN 9780754625469

2005

Coyle, S. and Pavlakos, G. (Eds.) (2005) Jurisprudence or Legal Science?: A Debate about the Nature of Legal Theory. Hart. ISBN 9781841135045

Pavlakos, G. (2005) Introduction. In: Coyle, S. and Pavlakos, G. (eds.) Jurisprudence or Legal Science? A debate about the nature of legal theory. Hart, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781841135045

Pavlakos, G. (2005) Normative knowledge and the nature of law. In: Coyle, S. and Pavlakos, G. (eds.) Jurisprudence or Legal Science? A debate about the nature of legal theory. Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 89-126. ISBN 9781841135045

Pavlakos, G. (2005) On the necessity of the interconnection between law and morality. Ratio Juris, 18(1), pp. 64-83. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9337.2005.00286.x)

2004

Pavlakos, G. (2004) Editorial. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 55(4), pp. 337-341.

Pavlakos, G. (2004) Isopoliteia [Greek translation of Pavlakos, G. (2204): Law as recognition: H.L.A. Hart and analytical positivism. In: Western Jurisprudence, ed. Murphy, T. (Dublin: Round Hall). In: Murphy, T. (ed.) Western Jurisprudence. Thomson Round Hall, pp. 109-151.

Pavlakos, G. (2004) Law as recognition: H.L.A. Hart and analytical positivism. In: Murphy, T. (ed.) Western Jurisprudence. Round Hall: Dublin, pp. 226-250. ISBN 9781858003788

2003

Pavlakos, G. (2003) Book review of Alexy, R. (2002) The Argument from Injustice. Modern Law Review, 66, pp. 147-151. [Book Review]

Pavlakos, G. (2003) Book review of Moore, M. Educating Oneself in Public, Critical Essays in Jurisprudence. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 54, pp. 201-204. [Book Review]

Pavlakos, G. (2003) Book review of Winfield, R.D. (2001) Autonomy and Normativity. Investigations of Truth, Right and Beauty. Review of Metaphysics, pp. 908-910. [Book Review]

Pavlakos, G. (2003) Normativity versus ontology: law, facts and practical reason. Rechtstheorie, 34(4), pp. 381-407.

2002

Pavlakos, G. (2002) On the normative groundwork of discourse-ethics. A critique of the Habermasian proceduralist paradigm of rightness in law and morality. In: Smith, P. and Comanducci, P. (eds.) Legal Philosophy: General Aspects : Theoretical Examinations and Practical Application. Series: ARSP: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (85). Steiner, pp. 27-32. ISBN 9783515081009

Pavlakos, G. (2002) Timothy Endicott, 'Vagueness in Law': Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 6(3), pp. 412-414. (doi:10.3366/elr.2002.6.3.412) [Book Review]

2001

Pavlakos, G. (2001) David Daiches Raphael, Concepts of Justice. Philosophy in Review: Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, 22(4), pp. 301-303. [Book Review]

Pavlakos, G. (2001) Jürgen Habermas, The Liberating Power of Symbols. Philosophy in Review: Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, 21(5), pp. 334-336. [Book Review]

Pavlakos, G. (2001) Uber 'die Interpretation' in der Reinen Rechtslehre. Das normative Defizit des Kelsenschen Aufbaus eines 'ontischen' Sollen. Archiv fuer Rechts und Sozialphilosophie, 87(4), pp. 554-565.

1999

Pavlakos, G. (1999) Persons and Norms. On the Normative Groundwork of Discourse-Ethics. Archiv fuer Rechts und Sozialphilosophie, 85(1), pp. 7-22.

1998

Pavlakos, G. (1998) The Special Case Thesis. An Assessment of Robert Alexy's Discursive Theory of Law. Ratio Juris, 11(2), pp. 126-154. (doi:10.1111/1467-9337.00081)

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Number of items: 58.

Articles

Chilovi, S. and Pavlakos, G. (2019) Law-determination as grounding: a common grounding framework for jurisprudence. Legal Theory, 25(1), pp. 53-76. (doi:0.1017/S1352325218000216)

Pavlakos, G. (2017) From a pluralism of grounds to proto-legal relations: accounting for the grounds of obligations of justice. Ratio Juris, 30(1), pp. 59-74. (doi:10.1111/raju.12152)

Pavlakos, G. (2016) New contours of legality: a discussion of Scott’s Shapiro’s legal positivism: introduction. Jurisprudence, 7(2), pp. 297-298. (doi:10.1080/20403313.2016.1190148)

Pavlakos, G. (2015) On second order morality. Jurisprudence, 6(2), pp. 276-297. (doi:10.1080/20403313.2015.1044318)

Pavlakos, G. (2013) Normativity and reason-dependence: a comment on the nature of reasons. Politica e Società, 2013(3), pp. 449-474. (doi:10.4476/74761)

Pavlakos, G. (2012) Correctness and Cognitivism: Remarks on Robert Alexy's argument from the claim to correctness. Ratio Juris, 25(1), pp. 15-30. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9337.2011.00500.x)

Pavlakos, G. (2012) Corrección y cognitivismo [trans. by G. Villa Rosas]. Doxa, 35, pp. 201-216.

Pavlakos, G. (2011) Constitutional rights, balancing, and the structure of autonomy. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 24(1), pp. 129-154.

Pavlakos, G. (2010) Coercion and the grounds of legal obligation: Arthur Ripstein's Force and Freedom. Jurisprudence, 1(2), pp. 305-316. (doi:10.5235/204033210793524195)

Pavlakos, G. (2009) Practice, reasons, and the agent's point of view. Ratio Juris, 22(1), pp. 74-94. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9337.2008.00413.x)

Pavlakos, G. (2008) Non-individualism, rights and practical reason. Ratio Juris, 21(1), pp. 66-93.

Pavlakos, G. [e.] (2008) Special Supplement on Jurisprudence. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 59(1), p. 147.

Pavlakos, G. (2007) Dio antilepseis peri antkeimenikotetas [Greek translation of Pavlakos, G. (2007): Two concepts of objectivity. In: Law, Rights and Discourse. The Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy]. EFARMOGES, pp. 339-373.

Pavlakos, G. (2007) Two conceptions of universalisation. Panóptica, 8, pp. 441-460.

Pavlakos, G. (2005) On the necessity of the interconnection between law and morality. Ratio Juris, 18(1), pp. 64-83. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9337.2005.00286.x)

Pavlakos, G. (2004) Editorial. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 55(4), pp. 337-341.

Pavlakos, G. (2003) Normativity versus ontology: law, facts and practical reason. Rechtstheorie, 34(4), pp. 381-407.

Pavlakos, G. (2001) Uber 'die Interpretation' in der Reinen Rechtslehre. Das normative Defizit des Kelsenschen Aufbaus eines 'ontischen' Sollen. Archiv fuer Rechts und Sozialphilosophie, 87(4), pp. 554-565.

Pavlakos, G. (1999) Persons and Norms. On the Normative Groundwork of Discourse-Ethics. Archiv fuer Rechts und Sozialphilosophie, 85(1), pp. 7-22.

Pavlakos, G. (1998) The Special Case Thesis. An Assessment of Robert Alexy's Discursive Theory of Law. Ratio Juris, 11(2), pp. 126-154. (doi:10.1111/1467-9337.00081)

Books

Pavlakos, G. (2008) Rechtsontologie und Practische Vernunft [Legal Ontology and Practical Reason]. Series: Studien zur Rechtsphilosophie und Rechtstheorie, 46. Nomos: Baden Baden. ISBN 9783832931582

Pavlakos, G. (2007) Our Knowledge of the Law: Objectivity and Practice in Legal Theory. Hart. ISBN 9781841135038

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