Cameron Moss
Research title: The Group Theory of Law: An Analysis of Group Agency and Legal Systems
Research Summary
Biography
Cameron joined the School of Law in 2024 as a part-time PhD candidate. Prior to this Cameron obtained his LLM (summa cum laude) in Legal Theory at the European Academy of Legal Theory (EALT). Cameron's Master's thesis In Defence of the Concept of Law was the joint winner of the EALT best Master thesis of class 2022-23 and was also selected to appear as a book in the EALT book series "Young Academics: European Legal Theory". Cameron completed his LLB (first class honours) at Maynooth University. Cameron is currently a legal researcher at the Irish Law Reform Commission.
Research Interests
My primary research interests include:
- Analytic legal theory, especially the work of HLA Hart
- Group Agency, particularly in the context of legal systems
My secondary research interests include:
- Law and logic, in particular theories of argumentation
- Methodology of legal philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- The possibility of constructing an analytic framework for non-analytic areas of legal theory, e.g. comparative law, legal history