Academic Profile

I studied law at the University of Athens, before going to Mansfield College, Oxford, to read for a MJur, graduating with a Distinction and was awarded the Herbert Hart Prize for Best Performance in Jurisprudence and Political Theory. I also received a Freshfields Graduate Studentship and a Senior Germaine Scholarship to continue my studies at Brasenose College, Oxford. At Brasenose I obtained a MPhil and a DPhil. My MPhil thesis argued for a value-laden methodology for jurisprudence, and DPhil thesis proposed an understanding of the relationship between courts and the legislature that has important implications in the theory of law and constitutional theory. My doctoral studies were funded by an AHRB Scholarship and a University of Oxford Faculty of Law Graduate Assistance Fund Award.

I joined the School of Law in 2007. Prior to that, I was Hauser Research Fellow at New York University. I am Director of Assessments for the School of Law and convene the Jurisprudence Reading Group.

Qualifications

• Certificate in Learning and Teaching, University of Sheffield
• DPhil, University of Oxford
• MPhil, University of Oxford
• MJur, University of Oxford
• LLB, University of Athens

Teaching and Learning

I firmly believe that jurisprudence is an indispensable component of legal studies. It teaches the value of rigour and trains law students in argument. It also alerts them to the moral and political implications of law. Accordingly, my teaching method is argumentative and geared towards concrete legal and political problems.

The modules I teach are:

Undergraduate	Postgraduate and MA
Public Law II	International Biolaw
Jurisprudence: Law and Morality	Principles of Health Law and Policy
Law and Political Philosophy (Convenor)
The Theory and Practice of the Human Rights Act 1998 (Convenor)

Research Interests

My research focuses on the following issues:

• The scope and justification of constitutionial review
• The nature of law
• Political authority
• Religious neutrality and toleration in liberal democracies
• The content and protection of fundamental rights

Member of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology Law and Ethics (SIBLE) and of the Centre for the Study of Law in Society (CLIS).

Key Publications

Kyritsis, D. (2012) The Persistent Significance of Jurisdiction. Ratio Juris, 25(3), 343-367

Kyritsis, D. (2012) Constitutional Review in Representative Democracy. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 32(2), 297-324

Kyritsis, D. (2011) The Normativity of The Practice of Officials. In Bertea, S. and Pavlakos, G. (eds). New Essays on the Normativity of Law. Hart Publishing, 177-195

Kyritsis, D. (2008) What Is Good About Legal Conventionalism, Legal Theory, 14(2), 135-166

Kyritsis, D. (2007) Principles, Policies and the Power of Courts. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 20(2), 379-397

Kyritsis, D. (2006) Representation and Waldron's Objection to Judicial Review. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 26(4), 733-751

Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures

• D. Kyritsis, What We Talk About When We Talk About Religious Toleration (Roundtable discussion of Brian Leiter's Why Respect Religion, Bocconi University, October 2011) [Invited Discussant]
• D. Kyritsis, Jurisdiction And Razian Authority (Autonomous National University of Mexico [UNAM], March 2011) [Invited speaker]
• D. Kyritsis, Constitutional Review In Representative Democracy (University of Alberta, March 2011) [Invited speaker]
• D. Kyritsis, Constitutional Review In Representative Democracy (University of Warwick, January 2011) [Invited speaker]
• D. Kyritsis, Two Models Of Judicial Deference (Constitutional Theory Seminar Series, University of Oxford, May 2010) [Invited speaker]

Professional Activities and Recognition

• Attorney at Law, Athens Bar
• Member of Editorial Board of Jurisprudence, specialist journal published by Hart Publishing
• Book Reviews Editor for Jurisprudence (2009-2011)
• Member of Editorial Board of Problema: Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho (bilingual journal in legal philosophy published annually by the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory Department of the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas - UNAM-Mexico)

Areas of Research Supervision

• Legal Philosophy
• Human Rights Law
• Public Law
• Political Theory