profile picture

Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco

University of Surrey
 More details
Homepage
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory
Areas of Interest
Value Theory
  •  16
    Agency, Negligence and Responsibility (edited book)
    with George Pavlakos
    Cambridge University Press. 2021.
    This collection of essays represents a ground-breaking collaboration between moral philosophers, action theorists, lawyers and legal theorists to set a fresh research agenda on agency and responsibility in negligence. The complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence is analysed from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives, shedding light on key ethical and legal issues related to agency and negligence to impact substantive law and policy-making in different jurisdictions. The volume intr…Read more
    Moral Responsibility
  •  10
    The Authority of Law
    In Colin Aitken, Amalia Amaya, Kevin D. Ashley, Carla Bagnoli, Giorgio Bongiovanni, Bartosz Brożek, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Samuele Chilovi, Marcello Di Bello, Jaap Hage, Kenneth Einar Himma, Lewis A. Kornhauser, Emiliano Lorini, Fabrizio Macagno, Andrei Marmor, J. J. Moreso, Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, Antonino Rotolo, Giovanni Sartor, Burkhard Schafer, Chiara Valentini, Bart Verheij, Douglas Walton & Wojciech Załuski (eds.), Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation, Springer Verlag. pp. 219-240. 2011.
    What happens in the agent that enables her to comply with the legal command or directive? When we perform an action because we are complying with the legal command or directive, are we still active, self-governed autonomous agents? In what sense are we still autonomous agents? The task of this study is to explain what legal authority is and the premise of the study is that this question can only be answered through understanding of how legal authority operates upon the agent: if we recognize tha…Read more
  •  56
    A Revision of the Constitutive and Epistemic Coherence Theories in Law
    Ratio Juris 14 (2): 212-232. 2001.
    This paper analyses and criticizes Joseph Raz's attacks on coherentist theories. It is argued that Raz's characterisation of epistemic coherence theories is too narrow and that his criticism of constitutive coherence theories is based on a conceptual mistake in his own description. The study is an indirect argument to rethink coherence theories of law and adjudication within a more powerful framework than that propounded by Raz.
    Descriptive JurisprudenceMethodology of Jurisprudence, Misc
  •  24
    Is Practical Knowledge Prior to Theoretical Knowledge in Action? Reflecting on Anscombe’s Institutional Transparency
    Journal of Value Inquiry 52 (3): 257-267. 2018.
    Value Theory
  •  67
    The Why-Question Methodology, The Guise of the Good and Legal Normativity
    Jurisprudence 8 (1): 127-142. 2017.
    Value Theory, MiscellaneousNormativity of LawThe Nature of Law and Legal Systems
  • Book Review: The Law and the Right: A Reappraisal of the Reality that Ought to Be, by Enrico Pattaro (review)
    Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 22 (2): 451-456. 2009.
    Rodriguez-Blanco examines Enrico Pattaro's effort to explain the normativeness or binding force of the law. Pattaro defends the controversial claim that norms are motives of behaviour and provides a rich explanation of how these motives, i.e., beliefs in the human brain, move human agency. In her review, Rodriguez-Blanco challenges Pattaro's empirical conception of human agency
    Nature of Law, Misc
  • Re-examining Deep Conventions: Practical Reason and Forward-Looking Agency
    In Josep Vilajosana & Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña (eds.), Legal Conventionalism, Springer Verlag. 2019.