Academic Profile

I joined the School of Law in 2007. Prior to that, I was Hauser Research Fellow at NYU.

I convene the Jurisprudence Reading Group.

I am currently a member of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics and of the Centre for the Study of Law in Society.

Qualifications

• 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 A: Law and Morality
Jurisprudence B: Introduction to Political Philosophy (Convenor)
The Theory and Practice of the Human Rights Act 1998 (Convenor)

Research Interests

• Legal Theory
• Constitutional Theory
• Political Philosophy

Key Publications

Kyritsis, D. (forthcoming 2012) Constitutional Review in Representative Democracy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.

Kyritsis, D. (forthcoming 2012) The Persistent Significance of Jurisdiction, Ratio Juris

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. (2010) Boumediene and the Meaning of Separation of Powers in US Emergency Law, (with Emily Hartz) Review of Constitutional Studies 15(1) 149-176

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

Kyritsis, D. (2008) The Transcendental, the Existential and the Ethical: Alexy and Dworkin on the Foundation of Rights. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 59(1), 91-108

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Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures

Constitutional Review in Representative Democracy (Warwick Law School Guest Speaker Series, January 2011, University of Alberta Law School, March 2011, and UCLA Law School, April 2011) [Invited speaker]

Two Models Of Judicial Deference (Constitutional Theory Seminar Series, University of Oxford, May 2010) [Invited speaker]

Joseph Raz And Jurisdiction (Experts, Law and Authority Conference, University of Hull, September 2009) [Invited plenary speaker]

The Normativity of the Practice of Officials (The Normative Dimension of Law Conference, University of Antwerp, June 2009) [Invited speaker]

Authentic Interpretation under Greek Constitutional Law (Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar Series, University of Trento, April 2009) [Invited speaker]

The Idea of Deference (Legal Theory Discussion Group, University of Leicester. November 2008) [Invited speaker]

Professional Activities and Recognition

• Attorney at Law, Athens Bar
• Book reviews editor of Jurisprudence (published by Hart Publishing) 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)
• Member of Editorial Board of Jurisprudence 2009-present

Areas of Research Supervision

• Legal Philosophy
• Public Law
• Political Theory