Les Green is a continuing part-time faculty member at Osgoode and holds the Chair in the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of Balliol College.  He is among the leading legal theorists in the English-speaking world.

Professor Green teaches in the areas of jurisprudence and legal theory, and in sexuality and the law. He was the first recipient of York's University-Wide Teaching Award and also received the Dean's Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in the faculty of Arts.  He has visited or taught at many other prominent law schools, including the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University New York, the University of Texas at Austin, and is a member of the Hauser Global Faculty of the NYU Law School.

Professor Green is author of The Authority of the State and co-editor of Law and the Community: The End of Individualism? He has published many papers in jurisprudence and political theory, on topics including the nature of law, legal obligations, freedom of expression, minority rights, language rights, and the philosophy of gender and sexuality. He is co-editor of the Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law and of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for jurisprudence. He also serves on the editorial boards of Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Ethics and Social Philosophy, and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal.

Areas of interest: Legal Theory

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