Timothy Endicott
Vinerian Professor of English Law
Faculty officer role(s):
REF Co-ordinator (shared)
Biography
Timothy Endicott is the Vinerian Professor of English Law. He writes on Constitutional and Administrative Law and Jurisprudence, with special interests in law and language and legal interpretation. He was a Fellow in Law at Balliol College from 1999 to 2020, and served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law for two terms, from 2007 to 2015. He is the author of Administrative Law, 5th ed (OUP 2021) and Vagueness in Law (OUP 2000).
After graduating with the AB in Classics and English from Harvard, he completed the MPhil in Comparative Philology in Oxford, studied Law at the University of Toronto, and practised as a litigation lawyer in Toronto. He completed the DPhil in Law in Oxford in 1998. He was appointed by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid to a Cátedra de Excelencia during 2016, and was a Distinguished Visitor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, in 2017 and 2021. He served as General Editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies from 2015 to 2021.
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Publications
Endicott T, ‘Profesor Joseph Raz (1939-2022). In memoriam’ [2023] (24) EUNOMÍA. Revista En Cultura De La Legalidad 418
ENDICOTT T, ‘The Rule of Justice’ [2023] International Journal of Constitutional Law
Endicott T, Kristjánsson H and Lewis S, ‘Introduction: The Central Question and Its Ramifications’ [2023] Philosophical Foundations of Precedent 1
Endicott T, ‘Legal misinterpretation’ (2022) 13(1) Jurisprudence 99
Endicott T and Yeung K, ‘The death of law? computationally personalized norms and the rule of law’ (2021) 72(4) University of Toronto Law Journal 373
Endicott T, ‘The purpose of a state’ (2021) 66(1) The American Journal of Jurisprudence 69
Endicott T, ‘FOREWORD’ [2021] Trust Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Essays vii
Endicott T, ‘Why Proportionality is not a General Ground of Judicial Review’ (2020) 1 Keele Law Review 1
Endicott T, ‘Human rights and the executive’ (2020) 11(4) Jurisprudence 597
Endicott T, ‘Authentic interpretation’ (2020) 33(1) Ratio Juris 6
Endicott T, ‘What use has approved’ [2020] Ratio
Endicott T, ‘Lawful Power’ [2017] New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law
Endicott T, ‘1. ¿Qué es la filosofía del derecho? ¿Cuál es su metodología adecuada?’ (2017) 11 Problema 513
Endicott T, ‘Law and Language’ [2016] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Endicott T, ‘Foreword: Beyond the Limits’ [2016] Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law vii
Endicott T, ‘MAGNA CARTA 1215: A GLORIOUS FAILURE’ (2016) 11(2) Frontiers of Law in China 204
Endicott T, ‘Was Entick v Carrington a landmark?’ 109
Endicott T, ‘Comity among Authorities’ (2015) 68(1) Current Legal Problems 1
Endicott T, ‘Interpretation and indeterminacy: comments on Andrei Marmor’s philosophy of law’ (2014) 10(1) Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 46
Endicott T, ‘The Coxford Lecture Arbitrariness’ (2014) 27(1) Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 49
Endicott T, ‘The Generality of Law’
Endicott T, ‘The Irony of Law’
Endicott T, ‘LEGAL INTERPRETATION’ [2012] ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 109
Endicott T, ‘Foreword: A New Decade’ (2011) 11(1) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal iii
Endicott T, ‘What human rights are there—if any—and why?’ (2010) 23(2) Studies in Christian Ethics 172
Endicott T, ‘Form and substance in the rule of law’ [2010] (Michaelmas Term 2010) Per Incuriam (the Cambridge University Law students’ Magazine) 23
Endicott T, ‘The Logic of Freedom and Power’
Endicott T, ‘Morality and the making of law: four questions’ (2010) 1(2) Jurisprudence 267
Endicott T, ‘Habeas Corpus and Guantanamo Bay: A View from Abroad’ (2009) 54(1) American Journal of Jurisprudence 1
Endicott T, ‘The Value of Vagueness’
Endicott T, ‘Adjudication and the law’ (2007) 27(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 311
Endicott T, ‘Interpretation, Jurisdiction, and the Authority of Law’ [2007] (22) Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper
Endicott T, ‘The Infant in the Snow’ [2006] Properties of Law 348
Endicott T, ‘The Subsidiarity of Law and the Obligation to Obey’ (2005) 50(1) The American Journal of Jurisprudence 233
Endicott T and Spence M, ‘Vagueness in the Scope of Copyright’ (2005) 121 Law Quarterly Review 657
Endicott T, ‘The reason of the law’ (2003) 48(1) American Journal of Jurisprudence 83
Endicott T, ‘Law is Necessarily Vague’ (2002) 7 Legal Theory 377
Endicott T, ‘Significado internacional\’: la cortesia en la adjudicacion de derechos fundamentales’ (2002) 2002 Anuario De Derechos Humanos 81
Endicott T, ‘’International Meaning’: Comity in Fundamental Rights Adjudication’ (2001) 13(3) International Journal of Refugee Law 280
Endicott T, ‘How to speak the truth’ (2001) 46(1) American Journal of Jurisprudence 229
Endicott T, ‘Are there any rules?’ (2001) 5(3) Journal of Ethics 199
Endicott T, ‘Raz sulle lacune: una tesi sorprendente’ (2001) 6 Ars Interpretandi 367
Endicott T, ‘Preface’ (2001) 7 Legal Theory 377
Endicott T, ‘Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Incomplete Agreements’
Endicott T, ‘The Impossibility of the Rule of Law’ (1999) 19 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 43101
Endicott T, ‘Herbert Hart and the semantic sting’ (1998) 4(3) Legal Theory 283
Endicott T, ‘Vagueness and Legal Theory’ (1997) 3(1) Legal Theory 37
Endicott T, ‘Putting interpretation in its place’ (1994) 13(4) Law and Philosophy 451
Endicott T, ‘The Conscience of the King: Christopher St. German, Thomas More, and the Development of English Equity’ (1989) 47 University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review 549
Endicott T, ‘The Criminality of Wife Assault’ (1987) 45 University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review 355
Endicott T, ‘Lord Reed’s Dissent in Gina Miller’s Case and the Principles of our Constitution’ United Kingdom Supreme Court Yearbook
Endicott T, ‘Constitutional Logic’ University of Toronto Law Journal
Endicott T, ‘Comity entre autoridades’ 11(11) EUNOMÍA Revista En Cultura De La Legalidad 9
Endicott T, ‘Ronald Dworkin y las consecuencias de la vaguedad’ (19) Doxa. Cuadernos De Filosofía Del Derecho 375
Endicott T, ‘La vaguedad y el Estado de Derecho: Una crisis en la adjudicación de derechos humanos’ (19) Derecho Y Humanidades
Endicott T, ‘Questions of Law’ Law Quarterly Review 292
Endicott T, Kristjánsson H and Lewis S, Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (2023) 1
Endicott T, Administrative Law (Oxford University Press 2021)
Endicott T, La Generalità del Diritto (V Bortolotti trans ed., Mucchi Editore 2013)
Endicott T, Administrative Law (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2011)
Endicott T, Palabras y reglas: Ensayos en filosofía del derecho (Distribuciones Fontamara 2004) 1
Endicott T, Vagueness in Law (Oxford University Press 2000)
Endicott T, ‘The parliamentary executive’, Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Scholarship of AV Dicey: The Enduring Legacy of a Victorian Constitutionalist (2024)
Endicott T, ‘Dicey and Analytical Jurisprudence’ in A Dickinson, T Endicott and W ERNST (eds.), Dicey + 100 Albert Venn Dicey: A Centennial Commemoration (Intersentia 2024)
Endicott T, Kristjánsson H and Lewis S, ‘Introduction’, Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2023)
Endicott T, ‘Legal Interpretation’, Challenges to Legal Theory: Essays in Honour of Professor José Iturmendi Morales (2021)
ENDICOTT T, ‘How Judges Make Law’ in L Fisher, J King and A Young (eds.), The Foundations and Future of Public Law Essays in Honour of Paul Craig (Oxford University Press, USA 2020)
Endicott T, ‘The public trust’ in EJ Criddle and others (eds.), Fiduciary Government (Cambridge University Press 2018)
Endicott T, ‘Questions of law’, Administrative Law (2018)
Endicott T and Oliver P, ‘The Role of Theory in Canadian Constitutional Law’ in N Desrosiers, P Macklem and P Oliver (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (Oxford University Press 2017)
Endicott T, ‘The Rule of Law and Online Dispute Resolution’ in A Estella de Noriega (ed.), Online Dispute Resolution: Virtud cívica digital, democracia y derecho (CEU Ediciones, Madrid 2017)
Endicott T, ‘Equity and administrative behaviour’, Equity and Administration (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2016)
Endicott T, ‘Proportionality and Incommensurability’ in G Huscroft, BW Miller and G Webber (eds.), Proportionality and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2014)
Endicott T, ‘Human Rights and Intellectual Disabilities’ in D Griffiths, F Owen and S Watson (eds.), Human Rights Agenda: An Action Plan to Advance the Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (Brock University 2011)
Endicott T, ‘Vagueness and Law’ in G Ronzitti (ed.), Vagueness: a Guide (Springer 2011)
Endicott T, ‘I diritti umani sono davvero universali? (’Are human rights really universal?’)’ in T Mazzarese and P Parolari (eds.), Diritti fondamentali: le sfide del nuovo millennio (G. Giappichelli Editore, Torino 2009)
Endicott T, ‘Law and Language’ (Oxford University Press 2004)
ENDICOTT T, ‘Raz on Gaps—the Surprising Part’, Rights, Culture and the Law (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2003)
Endicott T, ‘Herbert Hart and the Semantic Sting’, Hart’s PostscriptEssays on the Postscript to ‘The Concept of Law’ (Oxford University Press 2001)
Endicott T, ‘Constitutional interpretation’, The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (Cambridge University Press)
Dickinson A and others (eds.), Dicey + 100: Albert Venn Dicey: a Centennial Commemoration (Intersentia Uitgevers 2024)
Kristjánsson H, Lewis S and Endicott T (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (Oxford University Press 2023) i
Getzler J, Endicott T and Peel E (eds.), Properties of Law: Essays in Honour of Jim Harris (Oxford University Press 2006) 412
Endicott T, ‘A Treaty of Paramount Importance’ (United Kingdom Constitutional Law Blog, 1 January 2017)
Endicott T, ‘The Stubborn Stain Theory of Executive Power’ (Policy Exchange, 1 January 2017)
Endicott T, ‘Parliament and the Prerogative: From the Case of Proclamations to Miller’ (Policy Exchange Lecture, 1 December 2016, 2 December 2016)
Endicott T, ‘""This Ancient, Secretive Royal Prerogative""’ (United Kingdom Constitutional Law Blog, 11 November 2016)
Endicott T and Sauca Cano J, ‘Symposium: what aspects of justice should not be the law’s concern?’, Jurisprudence (Taylor and Francis 2020)
Endicott T, ‘Review of Reflections on The Concept of Law, by A.W.Brian Simpson, (Oxford University Press 2011)’ (2012) 128 Law Quarterly Review 305 (review)
Endicott T, ‘Rules and Reasoning: Essays in Honour of Fred Schauer, Ed. Linda Meyer, (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1999)’ (2002) 43 Philosophical Books 71 (review)
Endicott T, ‘Review of Richard Posner, Law and Legal Theory in England and America (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)’ (1998) 114 Law Quarterly Review 511 (review)
Endicott T, ‘Review of Nicos Stavropoulos, Objectivity in Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)’ (1997) 113 Law Quarterly Review 508 (review)
Endicott T, ‘Review of Neil Duxbury, Patterns of American Jurisprudence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)’ (1996) 112 Law Quarterly Review 360 (review)
Endicott T, ‘Making Constitutional Principles into Law’ (2020) 136 Law Quarterly Review 175 (case-note)