Books
a) Monographs
a.1 Law and Authority Under the Guise of the Good (2014, paperback 2016) (Oxford: Hart-Bloomsbury Publishing). Click here to access the book.
Reviews
Herstein, Ori, Mind (2016):1213.
Vega, J. Law and Philosophy
Symposium on the monograph:
Chris Essert, Grégoire Webber and Danny Priel, Jurisprudence 8 (1) (2016).
Replies: (2016) The Why-Question Methodology, The Guise of the Good and Legal Normativity: Replies, Jurisprudence: 127-142, Taylor & Francis. Click here to access the paper.
a.2 Meta-Ethics, Moral Objectivity and Law (2014) (Paderborn: Mentis Verlag), Series ‘Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy', Julian Nida –Ruemelin and Georg Meggle (eds.), 2004.
b) Edited books and journal special issue:
with Salman Khurshid and Lokendra Malik (2018) Dignity in Dworkin's Legal and Moral Philosophy, Oxford University Press.
with Pavlakos G (2015) Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency, Cambridge University Press.
Co-editor (with Antony Hatzistavrou) of the journal special issue Ancient Philosophy Today: DIALOGOI, "The Normativity of Law: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives", 2022.
"Finnis's Methodology: Reflections on Practical Reason and Human Action". In: Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Vol. 3 (Oxford: Hart/Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2023). Click here to access the paper.
"Backward-Looking Puzzle of Responsibility in Negligence: Some Preliminary Thoughts to Understanding Inadvertent Actions". In: Agency, Negligence and Responsibility, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
"Tracing Finnis’s criticism of Hart’s Internal Point of View: Instability and the ‘Point’ of Human Action in Law". In: The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism. Cambridge University Press. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/853527/, 2021. Translated into Spanish by Gabriela Scataglini and Nelson Tepedino, Revista Discusiones, 2022 (Argentina), with replies from Alejandro Guevara Arroyo, Ezequiel Monti and Natalia Scavuzzo. Click here to access the paper.
"Dworkin's Dignity Under the Lens of the Magician of Königsberg". In: Dignity in Dworkin's Legal and Moral Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Click here to access the paper.
"Authority of Law", In: Bongiovanni G., Postema G., Rotolo A., Sartor G., Walton D., Valentini C. (eds.), Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation, Springer (2018): 219-240 Springer.
" Processes and Artifacts: The Principles are in the Author Herself". In: Burazin L, Himma K, Roversi C (eds.), Law as an Artefact (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Click here to access the paper.
"What Makes a Transnational Rule of Law? Understanding the Logos and Values of Human Action in Transnational Law. In: Unpacking Normativity (Oxford: Hart-Bloomsbury) (2018): 209-226. Click here to access the paper.
"Practical Reason in the Context of Law: What Kind of Mistake Does a Citizen Make When She Violates Legal Rules?". In: Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence, Cambridge: CUP, (2017): 159-186. Click here to access the paper.
"Re-examining Deep Conventions: Practical Reason and Forward-Looking Agency" In: Banas P, Dyrda A, Gizbert-Studnicki T (eds.), Metaphilosophy of Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, (2016): 177-188. Click here to access the paper.
"Convención y Normatividad: Una Visión Escéptica". In: Ramírez Ludeña L, Vilajosana JM (eds.), Convencionalismo y Derecho, Madrid: Marcial Pons, (2016), pp. 53-64.
"Legal Authority and the Paradox of Intention in Action". In: Rodriguez-Blanco V, Pavlakos G (eds.), Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency (2015), Cambridge University Press. Click here to access the paper.
"Claims of Legal Authorities and 'Expressions of Intentions'": The Limits of the Philosophy of Language". In: Law and Language: Current Legal Issues, Volume 16, Michael Freeman & Fiona Smith, 2013, OUP.
"The Moral Puzzle of Legal Authority". In: New Essays on the Normativity of Law (Oxford: Hart Publications, 2011). Click here to access the paper.
“Method in Law: Revision and Description”, Science or Jurisprudence? Coyle and Pavlakos (Eds.) (Oxford: Hart Publications, 2005): 63-88.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals:
"Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Idea of the Political as Contribution to Legal Philosophy". In: History of European Ideas, 2024. Please click here to read the paper.
"The Nature of Human Practices and the Importance of Practical Reason: Why Law Cannot be a Moral Practice Only". In: Jurisprudence, 2024. Click here to access the paper.
“When Moral Principles Meet the Deliberative Stance of Judges: The Layers of Common Good Constitutionalism. In: Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, vol. 46, 2024. Click here or this link https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4693774t o access the paper.
“Revising the Puzzle of Negligence: Transforming the Citizen Towards Civic Maturity”. In: American Journal of Jurisprudence, 2023.
"Ways to Inhabit the Deliberative-Aspirational Point of View: Practical Reason and Objective Goods". In: The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 2022. Click here to access the paper.
"The Law of Negligence, Blameworthy Action and the Relationality Thesis: A Dilemma for Goldberg and Zipursky’s Civil Recourse Theory of Tort Law". In: Law and Philosophy, Springer, 2021. Click here to access the paper.
(with Pilar Zambrano), "One Myth of the Classical Natural Law Theory: Reflecting on the 'Thin' view of Legal Positivism", Ratio Juris 31 (2018): 9-32, Wiley. Click here to access the paper.
" Is Practical Knowledge Prior to Theoretical Knowledge in Action? Reflecting on Anscombe's Institutional Transparency". Journal of Value Inquiry 52 (2018): 257-267 Springer Verlag. Portuguese translation: 23 Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UFRGS (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Law School), 2023, pp. 40-55, translated by Martin Petiz and Alejandro Montiel.
"Action in Law's Empire: Judging in the Deliberative Mode" Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 29 (2) (2016):431-456, Cambridge University Press. Click here to access the paper.
"Does Practical Reason Need Interpretation? Understanding the Structure of Practical Reason", Ragion Pratica 43 (2)(2014): 317-341
"Reasons in Action v Triggering Reasons: A Reply to Enoch on Reason-Giving and Legal Normativity". In: Problema (2013),7 http://biblio.juridicas.unam.mx/revista/FilosofiaDerecho/Click here to access the paper.
(Review Essay on Enoch's Taking Morality Seriously) "If You Cannot Help Being Committed to It, then It Exists:A Defense of Robust Normative Realism", 32 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2012): 823-841. Click here to access the paper.
"Does Kelsen's Notion of Legal Normativity Rest on a Mistake?". In: 31 Law and Philosophy (2012):725-752. Click here to access the paper.
"Social and Justified Legal Normativity: Unlocking the Mystery of the Relationship" In: Ratio Juris (2012): 409-433. Click here to access the paper.
"Towards a Concept of Human Rights: Inside and Outside Genealogy" In: 98 Archives for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (2012), issue 3.
"Objectivity in Law". In: Philosophy Compass (2010): 240-249. Click here to access the paper.
"From Shared Agency to the Normativity of Law". In: Law and Philosophy, 2009: 59-100. Click here to access the paper.
“Is Finnis Wrong?: Understanding Normative Jurisprudence”. In: Legal Theory (2007): 257-283. Translated into Russian by Tokarev VA [Родригез-Бланко В. Прав ли Финнис? Понимание нормативной юриспруденции. Часть 1 // Вестник Гуманитарного университета. 2018. N 4 (23). C. 91-101. Перевод на русский язык: Токарев В.А.].[Родригез-Бланко В. Прав ли Финнис? Понимание нормативной юриспруденции. Часть 2 // Вестник Гуманитарного университета. 2019. N 2 (25). C. 26-41. Перевод на русский язык: Токарев В.А.]. Click here to access the paper.
"Peter Winch and H.L.A. Hart: Two Concepts of the Internal Point of View". In: The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 2007. Click here to access the paper.
“The Methodological Problem in Legal Theory: Descriptive and Normative Jurisprudence Revisited”. In: Ratio Juris, Vol 19, 2006:26.
“A Defence of Hart's Semantics as Non-Ambitious Conceptual Analysis" In: Legal Theory (2003).
“Moral Convictions in Dworkin’s Legal Theory”. In: 1 Rechtstheorie (2001).
"Genuine Disagreements: a Realist Reinterpretation of Dworkin". In: Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2001). Click here to access the paper.
"A Revision of the Epistemic and Constitutive Coherence Theories in Law". In: Ratio Juris (2001).
Publications in Spanish:
“Los desacuerdos genuinos morales y el relativismo: un diálogo entre Bernard Williams y JJ Moreso." Comentario al libro de José Juan Moreso Lo Normativo: Variedad y Variaciones. In: Eunomia, 9-27. Click here to access the paper.
“Una Visión Alternativa de los Principios”. En: Libro en Homenaje a Juan Ruiz Manero, Madrid: Marcial Pons (editorAngeles Rodenas), forthcoming. Click here to access the paper.