Criminal Regulation of Property Relations

Chair: Arlie Loughnan, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney

Speaker: Dr Emmanuel Melissaris, London School of Economics, Law Department

On the Normative Coherence of Property Offences:
The paper is the beginning of a project, the aim of which will be to explore the possibility of justifying and establishing the normative coherence of property offences, which remain strangely undertheorised. A tentative conclusion will be that offences against property should be understood, both descriptively and normatively, as safeguarding principles of distributive justice.

Emmanuel studied law in Athens and then obtained his MSc and PhD at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. He taught at the University of Manchester and Keele University before joining the London School of Economics in October 2005. His primary research interests are in Philosophy of Law and Criminal Law Theory.

Date: Tuesday 3 April, 5.30 - 7.30pm
Venue: Minter Ellison Room, level 13, Sydney University Law School, 173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney
Registration: This seminar is free of charge.