John Gardner (legal philosopher) explained

John Gardner
Birth Date:25 March 1965
Birth Place:Glasgow, Scotland
Education:New College, Oxford (BA, BCL, MA, DPhil)

John Gardner (23 March 1965 – 11 July 2019) was a Scottish legal philosopher. He was senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and prior to that the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and a fellow of University College, Oxford.

Life and career

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] His parents were both Germanists. His mother was a secondary school teacher and his father was a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Chairman of the city's Goethe-Institut.

John Gardner attended Glasgow Academy from 1970 to 1982.[4] [5] He won (in 1982) a place to study modern languages at New College but switched to law before his first term (in 1983) began.

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). From 1996 to 2000 he was reader in legal philosophy at King's College London.[6]

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.[7] [8] 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.[9]

Gardner died of cancer in July 2019, aged 54.[10] [11]

Honours and awards

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). 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] He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2013.[13] [14]

Bibliography

Books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: John Blair Gardner. HeraldScotland. en. 2019-08-29.
  2. News: Obituary: John Gardner. 2019-08-02. The Times. 2019-08-29. en. 0140-0460.
  3. Web site: John Gardner 1965 - 2019. 2019-07-17. Oxford Law Faculty. en. 2019-08-29.
  4. Web site: John Gardner 1965 - 2019. 2019-07-12. Oxford Law Faculty. en. 2019-08-20.
  5. Web site: John Gardner at Home. users.ox.ac.uk. 2015-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20180616223449/http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lawf0081/biograph2.htm. 16 June 2018. dead.
  6. Web site: John Gardner. Oxford Law Faculty. 2015-12-28. 8 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190608171737/https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/john-gardner. dead.
  7. Web site: RIP John Gardner. University College Oxford. en-GB. 2019-08-12.
  8. Web site: John Gardner 1965-2019 - Brasenose College, Oxford. www.bnc.ox.ac.uk. 2019-08-12.
  9. Web site: Obituary: John Gardner, internationally-renowned legal philosopher. HeraldScotland. en. 2019-08-18.
  10. News: John Gardner obituary. Lacey. Nicola. 2019-07-22. The Guardian. 2019-08-05. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  11. Web site: OBITUARY: Talented academic was a familiar face in West Oxford. Oxford Mail. en. 2019-08-16.
  12. https://www.innertemple.org.uk/news/death-notices/ Death Notices - Inner Temple
  13. Web site: Professor John Gardner. The British Academy. en. 2019-07-12.
  14. Web site: Collins. Hugh. Duff. Antony. Gardner, John, 1965-2019. 2021-04-17. The British Academy. en.
  15. Gardner. John. 2012-04-01. In Defence of Offences and Defences. Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies. en. 4. 1. 110–128. 10.1093/jrls/4.1.110. 2219-7125. free.
  16. 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.]]. The Cambridge Law Journal. en. 78. 1. 217–219. 10.1017/S0008197319000035. 151076009. 0008-1973.
  17. Book: Gardner, John. Torts and Other Wrongs. 2020-02-18. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-885294-0. Oxford, New York.
  18. 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|Academia.Edu]]]
    • From Personal Life to Private Law (2018)[16]
    • Torts and other Wrongs (2020)[17]

    Full list of publications at Gardner's Faculty Homepage

    External links

    Obituaries

    Interviews

    Lectures (video/podcast)

    Further resources

    • University of Oxford profile (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

    (Incomplete list) [also see [https://johngardnerathome.info/biblio.htm 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)

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