Denis Galligan

Contact details denis.galligan@csls.ox.ac.uk

Denis Galligan is professor of Socio-Legal Studies. He is a Professorial Fellow of Wolfson College Oxford.

Professor Galligan is also Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Law at the Universita’ degli Studi di Siena and is a Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Previous posts include a Tutorial Fellow at Jesus College Oxford and chairs at Southampton University and Sydney University. For several years he was a Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Budapest.

Professor Galligan is a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society, an independent institution affiliated with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and based at Wolfson College Oxford, whose objective is to study the role of law in contemporary societies and bring the fruits of academic research to a wider professional audience.

Qualifications

Doctor of Civil Law, Oxford University.
Master of Arts, Oxford University.
Bachelor of Civil Law, Oxford University.
Bachelor of Laws, University of Queensland
Barrister-at-Law, Supreme Court of Queensland
Barrister-at-Law, Gray’s Inn

Consultancies

Professor Galligan has considerable experience of constitutions, public law, government, and public administration in the new democracies of east Europe and has worked with the OECD, the Open Society, and the World Bank.

He was involved in constitutional and legal reform in Pakistan in collaboration with the British Department for International Development.

Research Interests

Theories of law and society
Theories of law and state
Public law and the legal regulation of government
Social basis of constitutional and administrative law
Procedures and procedural justice
Discretionary powers in government
Implementation of law
Law and society in transitional societies

Current Projects

Study of the social foundations of constitutional and administrative law
Continuing projects on law and government in east European countries
Study of judicial review of administrative action
Continuing research in theories of law and society

Teaching

Law and society: course for the Bachelor of Civil Law and Magister Juris, Oxford University
Social foundations of public law: series of seminars, Oxford University
European Public Law: course in the Faculty of Jurisprudence, Universita’ degli Studi di Siena
Task-Force in Public Policy: Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University at Oxford

Publications

Authored books

Discretionary Powers: A Legal Study of official Discretion (Clarendon, Oxford, 1986)
Due process and Fair Procedures: A Study of Administrative Procedures (Clarendon, Oxford, 1997)
Administrative Law in Central and Eastern Europe (Central European University Press, Budapest, 1998) (with D. Smilov)
Administrative Justice in the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe (Open Society, Budapest, 1998) (with several authors)
Western Concepts of Administrative Law (Moscow, 1998: Russian Edition only
Law in Modern Society (Oxford UP, 2007)

Main edited books

Law, Rights and the Welfare State (with C. Sampford) London, 1986)
Laws of Australia: Administrative Law (Law Book, Melbourne, 1993)
Socio-Legal Studies in Context: The Oxford Centre, the Past, and the Future (Blackwell, 1995)
A Reader on Administrative Law (Oxford UP, 1996)
Law and Informal Practices (with M. Kurkchiyan) (Oxford UP, 2003)

Reports

Administrative procedures and Administrative Supervision in Central and Eastern Europe (OECD, Paris, 1997)
Administrative Justice Reform in Bulgaria: Necessity and Opportunity (with D. Bilak) (Ministry of Justice, Sofia, 2003)
Judging Judges (Report prepared as part of Judicial Reform in Bulgaria, 2004)
Strategies of Judicial ReviewI Exercising Judicial Discretion in Administrative Cases Involving Business (with M. Matczak) (Ernst and Young, Better Governance Programme, Warsaw, 2005)