RESEARCH INTERESTS

I work primarily in legal and political philosophy. My main research interests are in the problems of authority, political obligation, international justice and the philosophical foundations of the criminal law. I'm happy to supervise students working in any of these areas.

I am one of the editors of Criminal Law and Philosophy. I am also the Secretary of the UK Branch of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) and the Honorary Secretary of the Society for Applied Philosophy.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Articles:

• "Human Rights and the Priority of the Moral", Social Philosophy and Policy, forthcoming.
• "Crime and Punishment", in Catriona McKinnon (ed.), Issues in Political Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• "Human Needs, Human Rights", in Rowan Cruft, Matthew Liao and Massimo Renzo (eds.), The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• "Fairness, Self-Deception and Political Obligation", Philosophical Studies, 169 (3), 2014: 467-488.
• "Democratic Authority and the Duty to Fight Unjust Wars", Analysis, 73 (4), 2013: 668-676.
• “Responsibility and Answerability in the Criminal Law”, in R.A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, Sandra Marshall, Massimo Renzo and Victor Tadros (eds.), The Constitution of the Criminal Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• "Crimes Against Humanity and the Limits of International Criminal Law", Law and Philosophy, 31 (4), 2012: 443-476.
• “Associative Responsibilities and Political Obligation”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 62 (246), 2012: 106-127
• “State Legitimacy and Self-Defence", Law and Philosophy, 30 (5), 2011: 575-601.
• “A Criticism of the International Harm Principle", Criminal Law and Philosophy, 4 (3), 2010: 267-282.
• “Duties of Samaritanism and Political Obligation", Legal Theory, 14 (3), 2008: 193-217.

Editorship:

• The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, (co-edited with Rowan Cruft and Matthew Liao) Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• Criminalization. The Political Morality of the Criminal Law (co-edited with R.A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, Sandra Marshall and Victor Tadros), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• "Law, Liberty and Morality": Fifty Years On, special issue of Criminal Law and Philosophy, 7 (3), 2013.
• The Constitution of the Criminal Law (co-edited with R.A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, Sandra Marshall and Victor Tadros), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• The Structures of the Criminal Law (co-edited with R.A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, Sandra Marshall and Victor Tadros), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• The Boundaries of the Criminal Law (co-edited with R.A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, Sandra Marshall and Victor Tadros), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Law and Philosophy: Moral, Legal and Political Perspectives (co-edited with Bjarke Viskum), special issue of Res Publica, 14 (4), 2008.

Email

m.renzo@warwick.ac.uk

Phone

+44 (0)24 7657 5286

Fax

+44 (0)24 7657 2604

Office

2.54

Office Hours

By appointment

 

Me boozing and discussing political obligation on BBC4

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