Professor George Pavlakos

Professor of Law and Philosophy (School of Law)

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

Room 326, Level 3, Law, 5-10 Professors' Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Biography

George Pavlakos is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the School of Law, University of Glasgow, and co-founder of the Law and Philosophy Network. He was previously Research Professor of Globalisation and Legal Theory and director of the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values at the University of Antwerp and has held appointments as visiting Professor at the University of Kiel, the University of Bologna, Beihang University, the European Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels, the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences (USTAV), and the University of Sao Paolo (USP). Since 2019 he serves on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Legal Theory (IVR).

His research focuses on the metaphysics of law, relational accounts of normativity and the legal philosophy of Kant and has appeared in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Legal Theory, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Ratio Juris and Rechtstheorie. He has published monographs in English and German, and his papers have appeared in English, German, Greek, French, Czech, Chinese and Spanish. George is currently working on a monograph under the working title A Relations-First Account of Law: The Metaphysics of Radical Non-Positivism. Over the years his research has been supported by 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).

George is an editor of the Cambridge ELEMENTS in Legal Philosophy; a general editor of the journal Jurisprudence (Taylor & Francis); and the lead editor of the book series Law and Practical Reason (Hart Publishing).

Research interests

Legal theory and philosophy, law and metaphysics, political philosophy (egalitarianism, globalisation), Immanuel Kant’s legal and political philosophy.

In recent years, a significant portion of his work has focused on understanding the existence of legal relations outside the context of state-based law. A key feature of this work is the use of tools from analytical metaphysics to illuminate and advance classic debates in general jurisprudence about how law relates to normative and evaluative facts. In this vein, he is currently working on a monograph that develops a radical version of non-positivism, one that does not rely on legal institutions to explain legal obligations. The project is funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2025-2028).

Publications

Selected publications

Chilovi, Samuele and Pavlakos, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2022) The explanatory demands of grounding in law. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 103(4), pp. 900-933. (doi: 10.1111/papq.12393)

Pavlakos, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2021) A non-naturalist account of law’s place in reality. In: Brożek, Bartosz, Hage, Jaap and Vincent, Nicole (eds.) Law and Mind: A Survey of Law and the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 473-489. ISBN 9781108623056 (doi: 10.1017/9781108623056.022)

Pavlakos, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2020) Redrawing the legal relation. In: Fabra-Zamora, Jorge Luis (ed.) Jurisprudence in a Globalized World. Edward Elgar, pp. 174-195. ISBN 9781788974417

Chilovi, Samuele and Pavlakos, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2019) Law-determination as grounding: a common grounding framework for jurisprudence. Legal Theory, 25(1), pp. 53-76. (doi: 10.1017/S1352325218000216)

Pavlakos, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2018) Revamping associative obligations. In: Khurshid, Salman, Malik, Lokendra and Rodriguez-Blanco, Veronica (eds.) Dignity in the Legal and Political Philosophy of Ronald Dworkin. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 337-360. ISBN 9780199484171

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2017) Why is willing irrelevant to the grounding on any obligation? Remarks on A. Ripstein’s conception of omni-lateral willing. In: Kisilevsky, Sari and Stone, Martin 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, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2015) On second order morality. Jurisprudence, 6(2), pp. 276-297. (doi: 10.1080/20403313.2015.1044318)

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2024

Pavlakos, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2024) Law's authority: authorizing or obligating? In: Dybowski, Maciej, Dzięgielewska, Weronika and Rzepiński, Wojciech (eds.) Practice Theory and Law: On Practices in Legal and Social Sciences. Series: Discourses of Law. Routledge, pp. 127-146. ISBN 9781032550503 (doi: 10.4324/9781003428794-8)

Marzal, Toni and Pavlakos, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2024) A relations-first approach to choice of law. In: Banu, Roxana, Green, Michael S. and Michaels, Ralf (eds.) Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law,. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 346-368. ISBN 9780192858771 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192858771.003.0017)

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2020

2019

2018

Pavlakos, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2018) 'Non-naturalism, normativity and the meaning of ‘ought’: Some lessons from Kelsen. In: Himma, Kenneth Einar, Jovanovic, Miodrag and Spaic, Bojan (eds.) Unpacking Normativity: Conceptual, Normative, and Descriptive Issues. Hart Publishing: Oxford, UK, pp. 77-94. ISBN 9781509916245

2017

Pavlakos, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2017) A plea for moderate optimisation: On the structure of principles as interpersonal reasons. In: Browski, Martin, Paulson, Stanley L. and Sieckmann, Jan-Rainard (eds.) Rechtsphilosophie und Grundrechtstheorie. Robert Alexys System. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, Germany, pp. 395-410.

2016

Pavlakos, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 and Rodriguez-Blanco, Veronica (Eds.) (2015) Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107070721

Pavlakos, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2015) On second order morality. Jurisprudence, 6(2), pp. 276-297. (doi: 10.1080/20403313.2015.1044318)

Pavlakos, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2015) The relation between moral and legal obligation: an alternative Kantian reading. In: Pavlakos, Georgios and Rodriguez-Blanco, Veronica (eds.) Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 228-243. ISBN 9781107070721

Pavlakos, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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

2014

Pavlakos, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2014) Between reason and strategy: some reflections on the normativity of proportionality. In: Huscroft, Grant, Miller, Bradley W. and Webber, Grégoire (eds.) Proportionality and the Rule of Law: Rights, Justification, Reasoning. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, p. 90. ISBN 9781107064072

2013

Pavlakos, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (Ed.) (2013) Derecho, derechos y discurso: La filosofía jurídica de Robert Alexy. Universidad Externado de Colombia: Bogota. ISBN 9789587720501

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2012) Corrección y cognitivismo [trans. by G. Villa Rosas]. Doxa, 35, pp. 201-216.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (Eds.) (2011) New Essays on the Normativity of Law. Series: Law and practical reason. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781849462389

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2011) Constitutional rights, balancing, and the structure of autonomy. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 24(1), pp. 129-154.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 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

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 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

2010

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (Eds.) (2008) The Tension between Group Rights and Human Rights: A Multi-disciplinary Approach. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781841138299

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2008) Non-individualism and rights. In: Feyter, K. de 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2008) Non-individualism, rights and practical reason. Ratio Juris, 21(1), pp. 66-93.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2008) Rechtsontologie und Practische Vernunft [Legal Ontology and Practical Reason]. Series: Studien zur Rechtsphilosophie und Rechtstheorie, 46. Nomos: Baden Baden. ISBN 9783832931582

Pavlakos, G. [ed.] ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2008) Special Supplement on Jurisprudence. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 59(1), p. 147.

2007

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (Ed.) (2007) Law, Rights and Discourse: the Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy. Hart. ISBN 9781841136769

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2007) Our Knowledge of the Law: Objectivity and Practice in Legal Theory. Hart. ISBN 9781841135038

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2007) Two conceptions of universalisation. Panóptica, 8, pp. 441-460.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2007) Introduction. In: Pavlakos, G. (ed.) Law, Rights and Discourse. The Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy. Hart Publishing, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781841136769

2006

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (Eds.) (2005) Jurisprudence or Legal Science?: A Debate about the Nature of Legal Theory. Hart. ISBN 9781841135045

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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

2004

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2004) Editorial. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 55(4), pp. 337-341.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2003) Book review of Alexy, R. (2002) The Argument from Injustice. Modern Law Review, 66, pp. 147-151. [Book Review]

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2003) Normativity versus ontology: law, facts and practical reason. Rechtstheorie, 34(4), pp. 381-407.

2002

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2001) David Daiches Raphael, Concepts of Justice. Philosophy in Review: Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, 22(4), pp. 301-303. [Book Review]

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2001) Jürgen Habermas, The Liberating Power of Symbols. Philosophy in Review: Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, 21(5), pp. 334-336. [Book Review]

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (1999) Persons and Norms. On the Normative Groundwork of Discourse-Ethics. Archiv fuer Rechts und Sozialphilosophie, 85(1), pp. 7-22.

1998

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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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Articles

Pavlakos, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2015) On second order morality. Jurisprudence, 6(2), pp. 276-297. (doi: 10.1080/20403313.2015.1044318)

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2012) Corrección y cognitivismo [trans. by G. Villa Rosas]. Doxa, 35, pp. 201-216.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2011) Constitutional rights, balancing, and the structure of autonomy. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 24(1), pp. 129-154.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2008) Non-individualism, rights and practical reason. Ratio Juris, 21(1), pp. 66-93.

Pavlakos, G. [ed.] ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2008) Special Supplement on Jurisprudence. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 59(1), p. 147.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2007) Two conceptions of universalisation. Panóptica, 8, pp. 441-460.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2004) Editorial. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 55(4), pp. 337-341.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2003) Normativity versus ontology: law, facts and practical reason. Rechtstheorie, 34(4), pp. 381-407.

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (1999) Persons and Norms. On the Normative Groundwork of Discourse-Ethics. Archiv fuer Rechts und Sozialphilosophie, 85(1), pp. 7-22.

Books

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2007) Our Knowledge of the Law: Objectivity and Practice in Legal Theory. Hart. ISBN 9781841135038

Book Sections

Book Reviews

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2003) Book review of Alexy, R. (2002) The Argument from Injustice. Modern Law Review, 66, pp. 147-151. [Book Review]

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (2001) David Daiches Raphael, Concepts of Justice. Philosophy in Review: Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, 22(4), pp. 301-303. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Bertea, S. and Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (Eds.) (2011) New Essays on the Normativity of Law. Series: Law and practical reason. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781849462389

Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (Ed.) (2007) Law, Rights and Discourse: the Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy. Hart. ISBN 9781841136769

Coyle, S. and Pavlakos, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-0858 (Eds.) (2005) Jurisprudence or Legal Science?: A Debate about the Nature of Legal Theory. Hart. ISBN 9781841135045

Research Reports or Papers

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Grants

2019-2020: Royal Society of Edinburgh: Research Workshop Grant (Principle Investigator: S Leuenberger; Co-investigator: G Pavlakos; value £10.000).

2018-2021: 3-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship entitled 'shifting paradigms of material property relations in cyber-sharing-economies' (holder: Dr Sally Zhu; sub-project budget holder: G Pavlakos; value: £322.503).

September 2015: European University Institute, Florence: 4-month Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellowship (value: €12000).

December 2014: 3-year Research Grant of the Czech National Grant Agency, Prague on for a research project on ‘The Role of Proportionality in Constitutional Rights Adjudication’ (principle investigator: G Pavlakos; co-investigator: Prof R Alexy, Kiel; value: €120.000)

February 2013: Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, Institute of State and Law. 3-year E. Purkyne Senior Research Fellowship in Law and Public Affairs (principle investigator: G Pavlakos; value: €45.000).

November 2011: Research Foundation Flanders – research grant for a 4 year project on ‘Normativity and Legal Concepts’ (principle investigator: G Pavlakos; value: €250.000).

November 2010: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung – award of a personal research fellowship for a 3 month stay at a German University, awarded “in recognition of an outstanding contribution to scholarship” (principle investigator: G Pavlakos; value: €10.000).

September 2010: Research Council University of Antwerp – research grant for a collaborative project with the Royal Academy of Arts, Antwerp, for a project on ‘The Public Role of Art’ (principle investigator: G Pavlakos; co-investigator: Prof. Vaast Colson at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Arts, Antwerp; value: €40.000).

September 2009: Research Foundation Flanders - research grant for a post-doctoral project on International Economic Law and Global Justice (holder: Dr Alexia Herwig; sub-project holder: G Pavlakos; value: €250.000).

September 2008: Research Council University of Antwerp, fund for international cooperation – research grant for a collaborative project between The Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, University of Antwerp and the School of Law, University of Glasgow on ‘Multi-layered Polities and the Search for the Common Good: A Constitutional Puzzle for the European Polis’. (principle investigator: G Pavlakos; value: €110.000).

March 2008: UCSIA grant for the organisation of a conference on ‘Normativity in Law and Morality’ (principle investigator: G Pavlakos; co-investigator: Dr S Bertea; value: €24.000).

September 2007: 5-year Odysseus Grant to set up a medium-sized research team researching on ‘The Constitution of Globalisation’ (principle investigator: G Pavlakos; value €750.000).

February 2005 – January 2006 And May 2006 – October 2006: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (at the University of Kiel) (principle investigator: G Pavlakos; value: €45.000).

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Refugee Rights in Rawlsian Justice Theory
Wang, Yuhan
A feminist turn to Dworkin's theory of integrity

Acar, Hatice
Priority View in Human Rights
Moss, Cameron
The Group Theory of Law: An Analysis of Group Agency and Legal Systems
Ovattananavakhun, Pudit
The Idea of Free Will in Hans Kelsen’s Normative Philosophy
Wang, Yuhan
A feminist turn to Dworkin's theory of integrity

External students

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

Former External PhD students

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

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'

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