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SYLVIE DELACROIX PhD (Cambridge University), Licences in law (Louvain-La-Neuve), Candidatures in philosophy (Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis) Reader in Legal Theory and Ethics contact details: Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1547 | internal: x21547 Room 306 Email: s.delacroix@ucl.ac.uk Administrator: Liz Milner Tel: 020 7679 4556 |internal: x4556

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Profile
Sylvie Delacroix joined UCL in September 2007 from Kent University, where she was a lecturer in law, having previously held a one year postdoc. at Trinity College, Cambridge (Senior Rouse Ball, 2002-03). She holds a PhD from Cambridge University, Licences in law from the University of Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium), and Candidatures in philosophy from the Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis (Belgium).

She was the Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University) in 2004-2005.

She is the director of the Centre for Ethics and Law, which was launched on 21st October 2009.

Sylvie has recently been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2010)

Research
Sylvie’s main research interests are in jurisprudence, ethics and public law.

Publications

Book:

• Legal norms and normativity: an essay in genealogy , Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006
  • Peter Birks second prize for outstanding legal scholarship 2008  (Society of Legal Scholars)
  • Review by Dan Priel in Legal Studies 27 (4)  http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/lest/27/4
  • Review by Maksymilian Del Mar in OJLS 27 (2)  http://ojls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/27/2/355

Chapters in books:

• "Making law bind: legal normativity as a dynamic concept", in M. Del Mar (ed.), New waves in philosophy of law, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 147-160
• "Tracing a genealogy of legal normativity: responsibility, authorship and contingency", in S. Bertea and G. Pavlakos (eds), The Normativity of Law , Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011
• “Six paths to vertigo-free legal theory ”, in R. Harrisson (ed.),  Current Legal Issues: Law and Philosophy , Oxford University Press, 2007
• “The rule of law”, in Iain MacKenzie (ed.), Political concepts: a reader and a guide, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, 314-322

Journal articles:

• "Drafting a constitution for a `Country of words': the Palestinian case", Middle East Law and Governance, 4 (2), 2012, 72-91
• 'Meta-ethical agnosticism in legal theory: mapping a way out',  Jurisprudence  , 1 (2), 2010, 225-240
• "You'd better be committed: legal norms and normativity",  American Journal of Jurisprudence  , 54 (1), 2009, 117-132
• “Schmitt's critique of Kelsenian normativism”,  Ratio Iuris , 18(1), 2005, 30-45
• “Hart's and Kelsen's contrasted understandings of normativity”,  Ratio Iuris , 17(4), 2004, 501-520
• “Montaigne's inquiry into the sources of normativity”,  The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence , 16(2), 2003, 271-286
• “Du silence au bruit: possibilités de discours sur les origins fondatrices du système juridique”,  Revue interdisciplinaire d'études juridiques , 47, 2001, 153-177

Work in progress/ forthcoming:

• "Jurisprudence as the art of conversation"
• "The audacity of moral choice"
• "Formatting the moral mind: emotions, instincts and virtual reality"
• " 'Virtually teaching' ethics: when pizza boxes matter"

Sylvie Delacroix's papers are available here.

Current Teaching

Undergraduate
Jurisprudence
Law and Ethics

Graduate
Jurisprudence and Legal Theory

PhD Supervision
Sylvie Delacroix welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students. She is currently supervising:

• Luke Price

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