George Letsas

University College London - Faculty of Laws

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4-8 Endsleigh Gardens

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Scholarly Papers (19)

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The ECHR as a Living Instrument: Its Meaning and its Legitimacy

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Mar 2012
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), European Court of Human Rights, living instrument, evolutive interpretation, legitimacy, margin of appreciation, consensus

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Is There a Right not to be Offended in One’s Religious Beliefs?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Nov 2009
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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freedom of religion, freedom of expression, human rights, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), blasphemy, hate speech

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Dworkin on Human Rights

Jurisprudence (Hart Publishing) (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Mar 2013
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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philosophy of human rights, interpretivism, practice-dependent theories, Ronald Dworkin, legitimacy, international law, European Convention on Human Rights, political conception of rights

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Rescuing Proportionality

Rowan Cruft and Massimo Renzo (eds), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Oct 2013
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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proportionality, human rights, balancing, fundamental rights, European convention on human rights, judicial review, equality

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No Human Right to Adopt? Gay and Lesbian Adoption Under the ECHR

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 12 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2021
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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European Convention on human rights, adoption, discrimination, judicial reasoning, margin of appreciation, proportionality

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Judge Rozakis's Separate Opinions and the Strasbourg Dilemma

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 25 Jun 2011
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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European Court of Human Rights, Separate Opinions, Margin of Appreciation, Proportionality, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

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Harmonic Law: The Case Against Pluralism

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2011
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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Legal Pluralism, Judicial Dialogue, EU Constitutionalism, Legal Positivism

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‘The Positivist May Be Right’: Legal Conventionalism Revisited

Problema: Anuario de Filosofia y Teoria de Derecho, (2016) 10, pp. 63-89.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Oct 2018
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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Conventionalism, Legal Obligation, Conventional Morality, Normative Reasons, Law As Integrity, Ronald Dworkin, H.L.A. Hart, Legal Positivism, Interpretivism

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Balancing as a Legal Method: What It Is and How (Not) to Do It

Bezemek, Potacs and Somek (eds), The Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Forthcoming , Faculty of Laws University College London Law Research Paper No. 01/2023
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2023
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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balancing, Robert Alexy, fundamental rights, conflict of rights, incommensurability, interests, proportionality, legal methodology, Ronald Dworkin, Jurgen Habermas

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The Scope and Balancing of Rights: Diagnostic or Constitutive?

Eva Brems & Janneke Gerards (eds), Shaping Rights: The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in Determining the Scope of Human Rights, Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Oct 2013
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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human rights, fundamental rights, scope of rights, balancing, proportionality, European Convention on Human Rights, judicial review

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Proportionality without Balancing

George Letsas, 'Proportionality', forthcoming in Richard Bellamy and Jeff King (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (2024, Cambridge University Press)., Faculty of Laws University College London Law Research Paper No. 15/2024
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 May 2024
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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proportionality, balancing, fundamental rights, judicial review, constitutional review, equal respect and concern, deontology, consequentialism, specificationism

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Foundationalism About Contract Law: A Sceptical View

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 03 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2018
George Letsas and Prince Saprai
University College London - Faculty of Laws and University College London - Faculty of Laws
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Promise, Contract, Private Law, Jurisprudence

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Revisiting the Margin of Appreciation: A Reply to Føllesdal

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 28 Jul 2016
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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European Convention on Human Rights, Margin of Appreciation, Judicial Deference, International Human Rights, Democracy, State Sovereignty

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The DNA of Conventions

Law and Philosophy, 2013 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Mar 2013
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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conventions, normativity, normative reasons, motivating reasons, conventionalism, practices, rule-following, David Lewis, Andrei Marmor

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Accommodating What Needn't Be Special

The Law & Ethics of Human Rights, Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 319–340, 2018
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Nov 2019
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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Freedom of religion, Religious accommodation, human rights, equality and non-discrimination, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), law and religion, liberalism

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The Irrelevance of Religion to Law

Cecile Laborde and Aurelia Bardon (eds), Religion in Liberal Political Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 01 Nov 2019
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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law and religion, freedom of religion, religious accommodation, human rights, legal interpretation, liberalism

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Proportionality as Fittingness: The Moral Dimension of Proportionality

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 04 May 2020
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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proportionality, balancing, human rights, interpretation, fundamental rights, judicial review

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Two Concepts of the Margin of Appreciation

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 26, Issue 4, pp. 705-732, 2006
Posted: 17 Jul 2008
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws

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The Truth in Autonomous Concepts: How to Interpret the ECHR

European Journal of International Law, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 279-305, 2004
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
George Letsas
University College London - Faculty of Laws

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