Program Head of Legal Studies; Professor of Legal Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA University of Athens; LLM, PhD University of Cambridge
Research Areas: Jurisprudence, rights, European Union, justice, climate change
Pavlos Eleftheriadis is a Professor of Legal Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi and Affiliated Professor at NYU Law School. He was previously Professor of Public Law and a Fellow of Mansfield College at the University of Oxford. He specializes in the philosophy of law, EU law, and public law. His research develops a moral theory of law and legal reasoning, which is both egalitarian and cosmopolitan. He is the author of Legal Rights (OUP, 2008) and A Union of Peoples (OUP, 2020), and many other studies in jurisprudence and public law. He has been an active commentator on European and constitutional affairs in the press. He practices as a barrister in European and human rights law from Francis Taylor Building in London.