Brian Flanagan

Biography

Brian is a graduate of Oxford University, Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and University College Dublin. He joined the Department in 2010, and spent 2012-13 at NYU School of Law as a NYU Hauser Research Scholar and a Fulbright Ireland Postdoctoral Scholar. Brian works on the nature of group agency and on its implications for legal and political theory. His research has been published in a variety of outlets including Philosophical Studies, Journal of Moral Philosophy, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, and Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. In September 2017, Brian will convene a workshop at MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory entitled, 'Group Agency: Ontology and Implications'. Brian will present the paper, 'Evaluating Theories of Group Agency: Preliminary Experimental Data', at both the 2017 Buffalo Experimental Philosophy Conference in August in New York and the 2017 European Network on Social Ontology Conference in September in Lund; and the paper, 'Predicting Statutes', at the 2017 UK and Ireland Society of Legal Scholars Conference in Dublin later that month.

Research Interest

Law.