Nigel Simmonds
Reader in Jurisprudence at the University of Cambridge
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nigel Simmonds is Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Cambridge and former Dean of College at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Career Simmonds attended one of the first comprehensive schools in Britain in Cumberland before going to study law at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1970. He then studied for the LL.M where he once again attained a First Class. After a PhD and some years of teaching at Manchester University, he returned to Cambridge where he was a University Professor in Jurisprudence until his retirement in 2018. At Corpus, Nigel Simmonds was Director of Studies in Law and Dean of College. Nigel Simmonds specialises in Jurisprudence. He is the author of 'A Debate Over Rights' , 'Central Issues in Jurisprudence' and 'Law as a Moral Idea' .
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Published Works
- A Debate Over Rights (1998) (98)
- Law as a moral idea (2005) (94)
- A Debate Over Rights: Philosophical Enquiries (2000) (77)
- Rights at the Cutting Edge (2000) (28)
- Central Issues in Jurisprudence (1986) (26)
- Bringing the Outside In (1993) (25)
- Central Issues in Jurisprudence: Justice, Law and Rights (2012) (24)
- Judgment and Mercy (1993) (24)
- Why People Obey the Law . By Tom R. Tyler. [New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1990. 178, (Appendices) 51, (Notes) 22, (Bibliography) 15 and (Index) 5pp. Hardback £22.50 net]. (1991) (19)
- Between Positivism and Idealism (1991) (17)
- The Bondwoman’s Son and the Beautiful Soul (2013) (14)
- Philosophy and the Criminal Law (1984) (13)
- The Decline of Juridical Reason: Doctrine and Theory in the Legal Order (1984) (13)
- STRAIGHTFORWARDLY FALSE: THE COLLAPSE OF KRAMER’S POSITIVISM (2004) (13)
- Grotius and Pufendorf (2008) (7)
- PROTESTANT JURISPRUDENCE AND MODERN DOCTRINAL SCHOLARSHIP (2001) (6)
- The Analytical Foundations of Justice (1995) (6)
- Jurisprudence as a Moral and Historical Inquiry (2005) (5)
- Reason Without Reasons: A Critique of Alan Gewirth’s Moral Philosophy (1996) (5)
- Why Conventionalism does not Collapse into Pragmatism (1990) (5)
- The changing face of private law: doctrinal categories and the regulatory state (1982) (5)
- Evil Contingencies and the Rule of Law: A Response to Hamish Stewart (2006) (4)
- Jurisprudence and the Nature of Law (2008) (4)
- Reason, History and Privilege : Blackstone's Debt to Natural Law (1988) (4)
- Kramer's High Noon (2011) (4)
- Pashukanis and Liberal Jurisprudence (1985) (4)
- Imperial Visions and Mundane Practices (1987) (4)
- Freedom, Law, and Naked Violence: A Reply to Kramer (2009) (3)
- Practice and Validity (1979) (3)
- The Nature of Law: Three Problems with One Solution (2011) (3)
- Welfare rights and freedom (1978) (2)
- Law as an Idea We Live By (2017) (2)
- The logic of planning and the aim of the law (2012) (2)
- Rights, socialism and liberalism (1985) (2)
- Philosophy of Law (2007) (2)
- Constitutional Rights and the Rule of Law (2016) (1)
- On the Centrality of Jurisprudence (2019) (1)
- Value, Practice, and Idea (2013) (1)
- Justice and Private Law in a Modern State (2006) (1)
- Constitutional Goods. By Alan Brudner. [Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. xiii, 439, (Bibliography) 5 and (Index) 6 pp. Hardback £70.00. ISBN 0–19–927466–5.] (2005) (1)
- CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, CIVILITY AND ARTIFICE (2019) (1)
- The Puzzle of Rights (2020) (1)
- Equality, Liberty and Perfectionism. By Vinit Haksar. [Oxford: At the University Press. 1979. viii, 297 and (Bibliography and Index) 5 pp. £12·00 net.] (1980) (0)
- Anti-lawyers: Religion and the Critics of Law and State. By DAVID SAUNDERS. [London: Routledge. 1997. xi, 153 (Notes) 16, (Bibliography) 6 and (Index) 7pp. Hardback £50.00 net.] (1998) (0)
- The State by Anthony De Jasay. Oxford: Blackwells, 1985, 282 + (index) 9 pp (hardback £17.50). (1986) (0)
- Ideal and Experience (2008) (0)
- The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine . By James Gordley. [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1991. 248, (Sources) 7 and (Index) 7pp. Hardback £35·00 net.] (1992) (0)
- Legal obligation . By J. C. Smith. [London: Athlone Press.1976. viii, 243 and (Notes & Index) 13 pp. £8.00 net.] (1977) (0)
- Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence . Third Series. Edited by John Eekelaar and John Bell. [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1987. 263 and (Index) 3 pp. Hardback £27·50 net.] (1988) (0)
- The Neo-Liberal State . By Raymond Plant. [Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010. xi, 270 and (Bibliography and Index) 13 pp. Hardback £50.00. ISBN 9780199281756.] (2010) (0)
- Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice: Jeremy Bentham and the Civil Law by P. J. Kelly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, viii + 218 + (bibliography and index) 22pp (hardback £27.50). (1991) (0)
- Legality as a Value (2008) (0)
- Random Justice: On Lotteries and Legal Decision-Making. By NEIL DUXBURY. [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. viii, 175 and (Index) 3 pp. Hardback. £35.00 net. ISBN 0-19-826825-4.] (2001) (0)
- Law's Ideal Dimension. By Robert Alexy. [Oxford University Press, 2021. xiv + 325 pp. Hardback £80.00. ISBN 978-0-19-879683-1.] (2022) (0)
- Jurisprudence Theories of private law by Dr N E Simmonds (2012) (0)
- Legal validity and decided cases (1981) (0)
- No better reasons: A reply to Alan Gewirth (1998) (0)
- Epstein's Theory of Strict Tort Liability (1992) (0)
- Brandt, Richard B. Morality, Utilitarianism, and Rights. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. viii+ 393. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper) (1994) (0)
- Evil Regimes and the Rule of Law (2008) (0)
- The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law. By RANDY E. BARNETT. [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. xi, 328. (Bibliography) 9 and (Index) 9pp. Hardback £25.00 net. ISBN 0–19–823924–0.] (1999) (0)
- The Morality of Freedom . By Joseph Raz. [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1986. ix, 429 and (Index) 5 pp. Hardback £30.00 net.] (1987) (0)
- Bentham and the Common Law Tradition by Gerald J. Postema Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986, xvi + 464 + (bibliography and index) 26pp (hardback £40.00). (1988) (0)
- Dualism and Archetype (2008) (0)
- The Unity of Law and Morality, by M J Detmold. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984, xix + 264 + (bibliography and index) 6 pp (hardback (£15.00) (1984) (0)
- The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon . By Jon Mandle and David A. Reidy (eds.) [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 881 pp. Hardback £110. ISBN 9780521192941.] (2015) (0)
- Legal Right and Social Democracy: Essays in Legal and Political Philosophy, by Neil Maccormick Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, viii + 264 + (index) 8 pp (hardback £17.50) (1983) (0)
- On Justice: ΙΙΕPΙ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ . By J. R. Lucas. [Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1980. vii, 263 and (Index) 5 pp. £10·00 net.] (1980) (0)
- Jurisprudence – Theories of private law (2012) (0)
- From Promise to Contract: Towards a Liberal Theory of Contract. By Dori Kimel. [Oxford: Hart Publishing. 2003. ix, 142, (Bibliography) 3 and (Index) 3 pp. Hardback £30.00. ISBN 1–84113–212–8.] (2004) (0)
- Corrective and Distributive Justice: From Aristotle to Modern Times. By Izhak Englard. [Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. xiii, 224 and (Table of Cases and Index) 12 pp. Hardback £52.00. ISBN 9780195380071.] (2009) (0)
- The Owl and the Rooster: Hegel's Transformative Political Science. By Alan Brudner. [Cambridge University Press, 2017. 366 pp. Hardback £90.00. ISBN 978-1-107-19754-1.] (2018) (0)
- Grotius, Pufendorf and Modern Natural Law. Edited by KNUD HAAKONNSEN. [Aldershot: Dartmouth. 1999. xix, 581 and (Index) 5pp. Hardback. £95.00 net. ISBN 1-85521-985-9.] (1999) (0)
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