Andrew 
HALPIN

 
Professor (Fractional)

Co-Director, Centre for Legal Theory

Andrew Halpin joined the Faculty in January 2012. He previously held chairs in legal theory at the University of Southampton and Swansea University. He completed his undergraduate studies and doctoral research at Oxford University, his thesis forming the basis for Rights and Law – Analysis and Theory (1997). His subsequent books are Reasoning with Law (2001), Definition in the Criminal Law (2004), and two coedited collections, Theorising the Global Legal Order (2009), In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (2017).

FULL BIOGRAPHY

Contact

halpin@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6516-5418
ETS-02-22

Education

DPhil, MA (University of Oxford)

Current Courses

Graduate Research Seminar II (Research Methods)

Andrew Halpin joined the Faculty in January 2012. He previously held chairs in legal theory at the University of Southampton and Swansea University.

He completed his undergraduate studies and doctoral research at Oxford University, his thesis forming the basis for Rights and Law – Analysis and Theory (1997). His subsequent books are Reasoning with Law (2001), Definition in the Criminal Law (2004), and two coedited collections, Theorising the Global Legal Order (2009), In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (2017). While at Southampton he held a British Academy Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship, and at Swansea posts of Director of Research and Head of School.

Professor Halpin’s research interests have extended into areas of Criminal Law, Roman Law and Tort but fall mainly within legal theory, broadly conceived. His research has explored perspectives on law from other disciplines – logic, philosophy of language, politics, and economics – and confronted novel legal phenomena arising in a global context.

Book Chapters
Andrew Halpin, 'Hohfeld and Rules' in Shyamkrishna Balganesh , Ted M. Sichelman and Henry E. Smith (eds), Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Works, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries (Cambridge University Pres 2022) 138

Journal Articles
Andrew Halpin, 'Overcoming von Wright's anxiety' (2024) 90 (2) Theoria 191

Andrew Halpin, 'Other People's Liberties' (2024) 37 (1) Ratio Juris 2

Andrew Halpin, 'Property as a Commitment to Self-determination' (2022) 13 (4) Jurisprudence 626

Andrew Halpin, 'Taking Control With Meta: Reviewing Kevin Toh, Legal Positivism and Meta-Ethics, in The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism' [2022] JOTWELL Jurisprudence

Andrew Halpin, 'On Kno-Rights and No-Rights' (2022) 46 Revus

Andrew Halpin, 'Taking Theory Out of a Participatory Cul-De-Sac' [2021] JOTWELL (reviewing Jeff Pojanowski’s “Reevaluating Legal Theory")

Andrew Halpin, 'No-Right and its Correlative' (2020) 65 (2) The American Journal of Jurisprudence 147

Andrew Halpin, 'Imaginary Laws' [2020] JOTWELL (reviewing Maksymillian Del Mar, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication)

  • Legal Theory, with particular interests in rights, legal reasoning, law and related disciplines
  • General/global jurisprudence.