Binesh Hass

Binesh Hass is a Departmental Lecturer in Law at the University of Oxford. He was educated at the University of Toronto (BA), University of Oxford (MSt, DPhil), and University of London (LLB). He teaches broadly in jurisprudence, constitutional and administrative law, criminal law, medical law, and tort law.

Binesh’s research encompasses a number of topics in law and philosophy, including (i) reasonableness and reasoning; (ii) authority and rules; and (iii) intention in both public and private law.

Prior to rejoining the Faculty of Law, Binesh was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy’s Uehiro Centre, where he founded and continues to convene the Practical Ethics and Law Lectures, which brings together philosophers and lawyers in a speaker–respondent format on questions of common interest.

Publications

Hass, B. ‘AI and Discriminatory Intent’ in D Edmonds (ed), AI Morality (OUP 2024).

Hass, B. ‘Reasonableness in Capacity Law’ (2023) 86 Modern Law Review 1447

Hass, B and Wilkinson, D. ‘Disentangling Normativity and Ethics’(2023) 23 American Journal of Bioethics 29

Hass, B. ‘Reasoning and Reversibility in Capacity Law’ (2023) 49 Journal of Medical Ethics 439

Hass, B. ‘The Values and Rules of Capacity Assessments’ (2022) 48 Journal of Medical Ethics 816

Hass, B. ‘The Opaqueness of Rules’ (2021) 41 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 407

Hass, B. ‘The Methods of Normativity’ (2017) 30 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 159