I work on how law comes to know what it claims to know. I develop a theory of legal knowledge as inherently perspectival and procedurally coordinated: legal relations are determined from situated positions, and procedures translate and integrate these perspectives into publicly authoritative knowledge. My central case is property-boundary determination in land registration, where legal, technical, and scientific claims converge in a single composite result. I am interested in this coordination, and in why legal theory has had so little to say about it.

Based in Vienna, I will be a visiting researcher at the LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natur…

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