A Faculty Oversight Committee guides the Forum, with a senior scholar of legal, moral, or political philosophy representing each of the seven member institutions.
Ruth Chang is the Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence and a Professorial Fellow of University College, Oxford. Before coming to Oxford she was Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, and earlier held a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College while completing her DPhil. She has held fellowships at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and the National Humanities Center, and holds a JD from Harvard Law School.
Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, where he directs the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy. He is the author of nineteen books and the co-editor of four more, across many areas of political, moral, and legal philosophy; his most recent book is Rights and Right-Holding (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Massimo Renzo is Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Law at King’s College London. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the Universities of Virginia and Arizona, the Murphy Institute, and the National University of Singapore, and is an editor of Criminal Law and Philosophy. His main interests are political authority, international justice, and the philosophical foundations of the criminal law.
Lea Ypi is Professor of Political Theory in the Government Department at the London School of Economics, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. Before joining the LSE she was a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. She holds degrees from the University of Rome La Sapienza and a PhD from the European University Institute.
Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco is the inaugural holder of the Chair of Moral and Political Philosophy (Jurisprudence) in the School of Law at the University of Surrey and a member of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy. She studied law at Oxford (MJur, Balliol College) and legal philosophy at Cambridge (PhD, Corpus Christi College). Her work sits at the intersection of practical reason, philosophy of action, and law.
Noam Gur is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Law at Queen Mary University of London. He specialises in jurisprudence, with further interests in political philosophy and tort theory. His main focus is the normativity of law and its interaction with practical reason, the subject of his book Legal Directives and Practical Reasons (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Ulrike Heuer is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at University College London. She was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds and an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and has held positions at Columbia, Barnard College, and Balliol College, Oxford, and fellowships at Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics and Tulane’s Murphy Institute.
Kenneth Ehrenberg is Professor in the School of Law at the University of Surrey and Co-Director of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy. He previously held appointments in philosophy and law at the University of Alabama and the State University of New York at Buffalo, and in 2010 was HLA Hart Visiting Fellow at Oxford. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Columbia and a JD from Yale Law School.
Matthew Kramer (Cambridge), Massimo Renzo (KCL), Lea Ypi (LSE), Ruth Chang (Oxford), Noam Gur (Queen Mary), Kenneth Ehrenberg and Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco (Surrey), Ulrike Heuer (UCL)
Matthew Kramer (Cambridge), Massimo Renzo (KCL), Lea Ypi (LSE), Ruth Chang (Oxford), Noam Gur (Queen Mary), Kenneth Ehrenberg and Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco (Surrey), Ulrike Heuer (UCL)
Matthew Kramer (Cambridge), Massimo Renzo (KCL), Lea Ypi (LSE), Ruth Chang (Oxford), Noam Gur (Queen Mary), Kenneth Ehrenberg and Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco (Surrey), Ulrike Heuer (UCL)
Matthew Kramer (Cambridge), Massimo Renzo (KCL), Lea Ypi (LSE), Ruth Chang (Oxford), Noam Gur (Queen Mary), Kenneth Ehrenberg and Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco (Surrey), Kevin Toh (UCL)