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CURRENT RESEARCH

Criminal Justice Ethics

    Criminal Justice Ethics covers a range of concrete and mid-level problems encountered by police, courts, and corrections. More

Business and
Professional Ethics

    Business and Professional Ethics deals with normative issues relating to the conduct and regulation of business. More

Ethical Issues
in Biotechnology

    Ethical Issues in Biotechnology examines the use of and access to new knowledge and techniques. More

IT and Nanotechnology
Ethics of Emergent
Technology

    Information technology and Nanotechnology deals with risks and responsibilities relating to research into technologies. More

Political Violence and
State Sovereignty

    Ethical Issues of Political Violence and State Sovereignty addresses central philosophical issues of political violence, especially the ethics of war. More

Justice and the Human Good

    Justice and the Human Good focuses on the relation between applied ethics and academic moral and political philosophy as well as the justice of social institutions. More

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WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics

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CAPPE NEWS

 

New Book Series

First book in the new CAPPE ANU book series More

 

Conference

25 – 26 August 2010
Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict.More

 

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Wednesday August 4th- John Dryzek Toward a Deliberative Global Citizens' Assembly
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Professor John Tasioulas

Criminal Justice Ethics

john.tasioulas@philosophy.oxford.ac.uk
Telephone +61 (02) 6125 5847
Facsimile +61 (02) 6125 8467

BA(Hons), LLB(Hons), PhD

Biography

John Tasioulas’s main research interests are in moral philosophy, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. He has written on a variety of topics within these areas, including objectivity and relativity in ethics, justice, human rights, equity, mercy, and issues in global ethics and the foundations of international law. More about John Tasioulas

Fields of special interest

  • Ethics of law
  • Human rights and global justice

Recent Grants

2008-2010 - British Academy Research Development Award to work on a project on the philosophical foundations of human rights; 'The idea of human rights: from morality to law'.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Tasioulas, J., 'Justice and Punishment', in J. Skorupski (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics, (Routledge, forthcoming 2009)

Tasioulas, J., 'The Legitimacy of International Law', in S. Besson and J.

Tasioulas (eds.), Philosophy of International Law, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008)

S. Besson and J. Tasioulas (eds.), Philosophy of International Law, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008)

Tasioulas, J., 'Opinio Juris and the genesis of Custom: A Solution to the "Paradox"', Australian Yearbook of International Law, 26(2007), pp.199-205

Tasioulas, J., 'The Moral reality of Human Rights', in T. Pogge (ed.), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor?, (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp.75-101 (Spanish translation 'La Realidad Moral de los Derechos Humanos', Anuario de Drechos Humanos 4 (2008), pp.41-67 www.cdh.uchile.cl/anuario04/3-Articulos/JohnTasioulas.pdf

Tasioulas, J., 'Repentance and the Liberal State', Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 4 (2007), pp.487-521 www.moritzlaw.osu.edu/osjcl/issues.php

Tasioulas, J., 'Customary international law and the Quest for Global Justice', in A. Perreau-Saussine and J.B. Murphy (eds.), The nature of Customary law: Philosophical, Historical and Legal Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp.307-335

Tasioulas, J., 'Crimes of Offence', in A. von Hirsch and A. Simester (eds.), Incivilities: Regulating Offensive Behaviour (Hart Publishing, 2006), pp.149-171

Tasioulas, J., 'Games and the Good', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society supp. vol. LXXX (2006), pp.237-264

Tasioulas, J., 'Punishment and Repentance', Philosophy, 81 (2006), pp.279-322