Thom Brooks has been a visiting fellow in Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews and currently an academic visitor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He chairs the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Philosophy and Law, the Association of Philosophy Journal Editors (APJE) (with Carol Gould), and the Global Justice and Human Rights Group. He is Secretary of the Association for Political Thought (UK) and the Hegel Society of Great Britain Council Member. He has been an elected Executive Board member of the Political Studies Association. Brooks is an elected Academician in the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHisS). He is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College. He served as a judge for the Brit Awards in 2010. Dr Brooks is Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy at Newcastle University, appointed in the Department of Politics and lectures in the Newcastle Law School. He is co-founder and Director of the Newcastle, Ethics, Legal, and Political Philosophy (NELPP) Group. Brooks is editor and founder of the Journal of Moral Philosophy, as well as four book series in the fields of philosophy and political science. His publications include Hegel’s Political Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Right (2007) and Punishment (2011). He has several edited books, including Rousseau and Law (2005), The Legacy of John Rawls (with Fabian Freyenhagen) (2005), Locke and Law (2007), The Global Justice Reader (2008), The Right to a Fair Trial (2009), Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Essays on Ethics, Politics, and Law (2011), and New Waves in Ethics (2011). He is currently planning several future projects on justice.
Robert M. Cover: Nomos and Narrative
Let a Thousand Nomoi Bloom? Four Problems with Robert Cover's Nomos and Narrative, Issues in Legal Scholarship (2006)
Robert Cover's well known article Nomos and Narrative is a passionately argued defense of a...