Sebastian Lewis

Global Associate Professor of Law
Notre Dame London Law Programme
Home Affiliation: School of Law, University of Surrey
Global Visiting Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School (Fall 2024)

Email: slewis22@nd.edu
Website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/sebastian-lewis
https://sebastian-lewis.com/

Sebastian is a Lecturer in Public Law and Legal Theory at the University of Surrey, and Director of Communications, External Engagement, and Strategic Partnerships at the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy (https://surreycentrelp.org/).

Previously, he was a Lecturer in Law at Oriel College, Oxford. He completed his doctorate in law at the University of Oxford and holds an LLM from Harvard Law School, as well as an LLB from Universidad de los Andes (Chile). He is a qualified lawyer in Chile.

Sebastian’s areas of research include general jurisprudence, legal reasoning, public law theory, and comparative public law. He is particularly interested in the philosophical foundations of legal systems, the nature of legal sources, the demands of the rule of law on state officials, and different approaches to explaining non-delegated legal authority. His work has been published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence, Law & Philosophy, Modern Law Review, and the Journal of Comparative Law. He is also one of the editors of Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (OUP, 2023).

Sebastian has held various teaching appointments at the University of Oxford, King’s College London, and the LSE, and has been a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg, Germany.