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Durham Law School

Staff

Professor William Lucy

Professor in the Durham Law School

Contact Professor William Lucy (email at w.n.lucy@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

William arrived at Durham Law School in summer 2012, having previously been a Professor at the Law School, University of Manchester. Before that he had held chairs at Cardiff University, Keele University and the University of Hull Law School (where he was almost the inaugural HK Bevan Professor of Law). He holds an undergraduate degree in law and postgraduate degrees in jurisprudence and in political philosophy. He teaches mainly private law subjects and legal philosophy and has supervised a number of doctoral students in these fields. These are also the principal fields in which he publishes, his two main monographs so far being Understanding and Explaining Adjudication (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1999) and Philosophy of Private Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2007), neither of which is as expensive as you might think. He has held visiting posts at a number of Universities, including most recently the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, the College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, and the Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal.

Research Interests

Grants Awarded

  • 2013: Law's Abstract Judgement (£77686.00 from The Leverhulme Trust)

Publications

Books: sections

  • Lucy, W (2008). Judges, distinguished. In Oxford Companion to Law. Cane, P. & Conaghan, J. OUP. 649-651.

Edited works: contributions

Journal papers: academic

Visiting Scholar Program