Dispositions, propositions, and the nature of legal knowledge

About the speaker

Miguel-Jose Lopez-Lorenzo studied for a LLB in Laws at King’s College London and an MA in Legal and Political Theory at UCL before joining the UCL Faculty of Laws as a research student in 2010 where he has also acted as a teaching fellow, associate editor of the UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, co-convenor of the UCL Political Philosophy Working Group, and co-convenor of the UCL Legal Philosophy Forum. The majority of Miguel’s research is in general jurisprudence.

His publications include:

• ‘The Planning Theory of Law’. Res Publica: Volume 18, Issue 2 (2012), 201-206. A critical review of Scott Shapiro, Legality (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2011)

• ‘Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law’. The Modern Law Review: Volume 75, Issue 1 (2012), 149-153. A critical review of Andrei Marmor and Scott Soames (eds), Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012)

• ‘Moralized Conventions in Law’. Problema, Anuario de Filosofia y Teoria del Derecho: Num 10, enero-diciembre de 2016, 111-134