CLT Roundtable: Metatheory (Where can it take you?) with Kevin Toh, Mark McBride and James Penner

In his roundtable discussion, Professor Toh discussed whether there is value in adopting a meta-theoretical approach, and if a dedicated metatheory of law is feasible. In sharing his observations, he suggests that the preliminary question to ask is whether legal theory must borrow or has to be subjected to the metatheoretical endeavours of general philosophy.

Kevin Toh is the Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University in Bloomington. Prof. Toh has also held visiting fellowships and/or professorships at University College, Oxford University; University of Edinburgh; Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg; Osaka University; and Roma Tre University. He was a law clerk for Associate Justice Charles Fried at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the 1997-98 term. His work focuses on legal philosophy, philosophical ethics, and constitutional theory.

More about the SSLT seminars at https://law.nus.edu.sg/clt/the-singapore-symposium-in-legal-theory/

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