About
Jonathan is a Lecturer in Jurisprudence at Southampton Law School.
His research is in legal and political philosophy, and in criminal and constitutional law.
Jonathan is a Lecturer in Jurisprudence at Southampton Law School.
His research is in legal and political philosophy, and in criminal and constitutional law.
Jonathan’s research is in normative legal and political philosophy, in general jurisprudence, and in the theory of criminal and constitutional law. In political philosophy his overall aim is to do justice within a perfectionist and comprehensive liberal framework to some of the intuitions that push many towards ‘public reason’ accounts of politics. Recent work has focused on the morality of state paternalism and on the value of respect. More generally, he is interested in the relationships between democracy, authority, justice, and legitimacy. In criminal law he is currently working on the idea of dishonesty in theft and related offences.
Jonathan teaches Theories of Law and Justice, Philosophical Perspectives on the Common Law, and Criminal Law.
Jonathan joined the University in 2023. Before coming to Southampton, he was a Career Development Fellow at Queen’s College Oxford. He studied philosophy (BA) at the University of Oxford and law (LLB) part-time at Birkbeck College London before returning to Oxford for the BCL and DPhil.