Melissaris, Emmanuel


Dr Emmanuel Melissaris  

Department

Position held

Department of Law

Senior Lecturer in Law

Experience keywords:

criminal law theory; legal philosophy and sociology

Research summary > [Click to expand]

Emmanuel’s research is in the area of legal philosophy and sociology as well as criminal law theory. He is currently working on a project on legal pluralism and on the justification of offences against property.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Law

Languages:

Greek [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7257

Publications

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2012

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2012) A social and legal theory of re-enchantment: interpretivism, argumentation and the law. Constellations, 19 (4). pp. 609-623. ISSN 1351-0487

Penner, James E. and Melissaris, Emmanuel (2012) McCoubrey & White's textbook on jurisprudence. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199584345

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2012) How may race have been implicated in the Rochdale "grooming case"? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2012) Toward a political theory of criminal law: a critical Rawlsian account. New criminal law review, 15 (1). pp. 122-155. ISSN 1933-4206

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2012) Property offences as crimes of injustice. Criminal law and philosophy, 6 (2). pp. 149-166. ISSN 1871-9791

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2011) The conditions of normativity of liberal criminal law. In: Brozek, Bartosz and Stelmach, Jerzy, (eds.) The normativity of law . Copernicus Center Press , Krakow, Poland, pp. 151-166. ISBN 9788362259168

2010

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2010) The Big Society is an illiberal concept that promotes subjective moral beliefs and threatens to entrench private interests in public life. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

2009

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2009) Ubiquitous law: legal theory and the space for legal pluralism. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK. ISBN 9780754625421

2008

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2008) Law and the possibility of discourse: introduction. Social and legal studies, 17 (1). pp. 93-95. ISSN 0964-6639

2007

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2007) The concept of appropriation and the offence of theft. Modern law review, 70 (4). pp. 581-597. ISSN 0026-7961

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2007) Diachronic universalization and the law. In: Bankowski, Zenon and MacLean, James, (eds.) The universal and the particular in legal reasoning. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, pp. 129-142. ISBN 9780754625469

2005

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2005) The limits of institutionalised legal discourse. Ratio juris, 18 (4). pp. 464-483. ISSN 0952-1917

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2005) The chronology of the legal. McGill law journal, 50 (4). pp. 839-861. ISSN 0024-9041

2004

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2004) The more the merrier? A new take on legal pluralism. Social and legal studies, 13 (1). pp. 57-79. ISSN 0964-6639

Melissaris, Emmanuel (2004) Is common law irrational? The Weberian 'England problem' revisited. Northern Ireland legal quarterly, 55 (4). pp. 378-395. ISSN 0029-3105

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Personal website

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Emmanuel studied law in Athens and then obtained his MSc and PhD at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. He taught at the University of Manchester and Keele University before joining the LSE in October 2005.

 

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