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Centre for Legal Theory

About CLT

The Centre for Legal Theory (CLT) at NUS Law brings together colleagues in the Faculty of Law interested in a variety of theoretical approaches to law, including those informed by related disciplines. CLT exists to promote formal and informal exchanges on theoretical work by members of the Centre and other colleagues. Read More…

Upcoming Events

The Singapore Symposium in Legal Theory 2019
By Associate Professor Larissa Katz, University of Toronto
28 January 2019, Monday
5.00pm to 7.00pm
Lee Sheridan Conference Room, Eu Tong Sen Building, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
(Participation is by invitation only)

The Singapore Symposium in Legal Theory 2019
By Professor Philip Schofield, University College London
11 February 2019, Monday
5.00pm to 7.00pm
Lee Sheridan Conference Room, Eu Tong Sen Building, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
(Participation is by invitation only)

The Singapore Symposium in Legal Theory 2019
By Professor Brian Leiter, University of Chicago
25 March 2019, Monday
5.00pm to 7.00pm
Lee Sheridan Conference Room, Eu Tong Sen Building, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
(Participation is by invitation only)

The Singapore Symposium in Legal Theory 2019
By Associate Professor Adam Perry, University of Oxford
1 April 2019, Monday
5.00pm to 7.00pm
Lee Sheridan Conference Room, Eu Tong Sen Building, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
(Participation is by invitation only)

The Singapore Symposium in Legal Theory 2019
By Professor Matthew Harding, The University of Melbourne
8 April 2019, Monday
5.00pm to 7.00pm
Lee Sheridan Conference Room, Eu Tong Sen Building, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
(Participation is by invitation only)

News & Announcements

James Penner's new edited volume on “Property Theory: Legal and Political Perspectives” has been published by Cambridge University Press

Tan Zhong Xing won the Hart Publishing Prize for the best paper by an early career scholar at the Ninth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations at Melbourne Law School

Mike Dowdle has published a new book on “Questioning the Foundations of Public Law”

Arif A Jamal publishes a book “Islam, Law and the Modern State: (Re)imagining Liberal Theory in Muslim Contexts”

Nicole Roughan and Andrew Halpin publish "A response" to commentators on In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence in March 2018

Andrew Halpin posts "A Story of Jurisprudence and True Philosophy" in March 2018

Nicole Roughan presented a paper at the Julius Stone Institute, University of Sydney in March 2018

James Penner has published an article "'We All Make Mistakes: A ‘Duty of Virtue’ Theory of Restitutionary Liability for Mistaken Payments"

Benjamin Schupmann publishes an article “Responding to the rise of extremist populism”

Sinja Graf has published an article online "A Trespass against the Whole Species”: Universal Crime and Sovereign Founding in John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government"

Benjamin Schupmann publishes a book “Carl Schmitt’s State and Constitutional Theory: A Critical Analysis”