Globalisation and Legal Scholarship Seminar

Professor William Twining, Former Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London. Professor William Twining is one of greatest legal philosophers of our time. His work ranges from being a leading authority on the nature of law, American Legal Realism, the work of the American Jurist Karl Llewellyn, theories of evidence, philosophical and legal aspects of Jeremy Bentham’s thought and recently, the relationship between legal theory and Globalisation. Professor Twining inquiries have always been at the forefront of legal education and a new edition of his classic How to do things with Rules, is forthcoming. His latest book, General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective, was published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press.