Profile
William Twining, formerly Quain Professor of Jurisprudence until 1996, has
held chairs in Belfast and Warwick and numerous visiting appointments. He
taught for seven years in Sudan and Tanzania and has maintained his interests
in legal affairs in the Commonwealth, most recently through involvement in
projects on human rights, criminal justice and preservation of legal records
and as a consultant in Hong Kong, India, Tanzania and Uganda.
Research Professor Twining is researching in the following areas:
General Jurisprudence
Narrative and Reasoning in Legal Contexts
Analysis of Evidence
Publications
legal theory
General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective (2009) (Cambridge University Press)
“Implications of Globalisation for Law as a Discipline (forthcoming)
“General Jurisprudence” in M. Escamilla and M. Savedra (eds.)
Law and Justice in A Global Society (in English and Spanish) pp. 563-650
(Proceedings of the XXIInd World Congress on Legal and Social Philosophy,
Annales de la Catedra Fransisco Suarez, Granada) (2005)
“Have Concepts: Will Travel: Analytical Jurisprudence in a Global
Perspective” International Jo. of Law in Context 1: 5-40 (2005)
“Social Science and Diffusion of Law” Jo. Law and Society,
32: 203-40 (2005)
“The Hutton Inquiry: Some Wider Legal Aspects” in W. G.
Runciman (ed.) Hutton and Butler: Lifting the Lid on the Workings of Power
(British Academy/ Oxford University Press, 2004)
“Diffusion of Law: A Global Perspective" Jo. Legal Pluralism
1-43 (2004)
John Dinwiddy, Bentham and Other Essays (ed. with Trodoction and Biography,
Stanford UP, Jan 2004)
"A Post-Westphalian Conception of Law" (review article) 37
Law and Society Review 199-257 (2003)
The Great Juristic Bazaar: Jurists' Texts and Lawyers' Stories (Ashgate,
2003)
Legal Reasoning and Argumentation (in International Encyclopedia of
the Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol.13, 8670-75 (Pergamon, 2001)
Bentham, Jeremy (in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral
Sciences vol. 2, 1145-51 (Pergamon, 2001)
Globalisation and Legal Theory (2000)
How To Do Things With Rules (with David Miers, 4th edn., 1999);
Law in Context: Enlarging a Discipline (1995)
Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement (1973, 1985)
evidence and proof
Analysis of Evidence (2nd edition, with Terence Anderson and David Schum.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
“Evidence as a Multidisciplinary Subject”, Law, Probability
and Risk, 2 1-17 (2003)
Rethinking Evidence; and
Evidence and Inference in History and Law (ed. with Iain Hampsher-Monk,
Northwestern UP, 2003)
legal education
“The Role of Academics in the Legal System” (UK) in P. Cane
and M. Tushnet (eds) Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (OUP,2003) pp.920-29.
“Law teaching as a Vocation” (Speculum Iuris (SA, 2002),
pp. 161-180.
"A Cosmopolitan Discipline? Some Implications of 'Globalisation'
for Legal Education", (8 Int. Jo. of the Legal Profession 23-36 (2001)
(also in 1 Jo. Commonwealth Law and Legal Education 13-29 (2001)
Blackstone's Tower: The English Law School, 1994 Hamlyn Lectures.
He is also
Co-editor of the Law in Context and Jurists series.
Current Teaching Graduate
Evidence and Proof - Part A
Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarian Tradition
Law Teachers' Programme
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