George Dick
Thesis title: Uncovering the Ontology of Law: From Disagreement to Values
PhD supervisors:
Background
George Dick is a PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests revolve around jurisprudential methodology and its intersections with metaphysics and epistemology (particularly in the context of general jurisprudence).
Alongside his PhD studies, George has served as a Tutor at both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling. He also previously worked as a Research Assistant for Prof. Neil Walker's Leverhulme Trust Project 'Law, Community and Utopia'.
George has also been actively involved in the PGR community at Edinburgh Law School, where he is currently serving as a committee member of the Postgraduate Research Student Board (currently as President; previously as Treasurer). He was also Co-Convenor of the Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group during the 2023/24 academic year.
Qualifications
LLM in Law, University of Edinburgh, 2020 (with Distinction)
LLB (Hons.) Scots Law, University of Dundee, 2019 (First Class Honours)
Responsibilities & affiliations
PhD Researcher, Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory
President, Postgraduate Research Student Board
Research summary
Legal Theory; Methodology; Metaphysics of Law; Epistemology; Disagreement
Current research interests
Methodology in Legal Theory; Disagreement in Legal Theory Scholarship; General JurisprudenceAffiliated research centres
Organiser
- Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group Seminar Series 2023/24, various dates (w/ Sara Canduzzi, Inês Gomes & Yunqing Liu)
- Disputationes 2022, University of Edinburgh, 28 October 2022 (w/ Prof. Amalia Amaya & Rodrigo Pablo).
Participant
- Autumn PhD Workshop in Legal Theory, Masaryk University, 29 November 2024.
- Presenting: “Theorising about the Nature of Law: A Sketch of the Orthodox Approach”
- 2nd CALSP Student Conference (“Current State and Upcoming Challenges of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law”), University of Zagreb, 3 May 2024.
- Presenting: “The Theory-Ladenness of Claims about the Nature of Law”
- Edinburgh-Leuven Exchange Conference (“Law and the Challenges of Change”), University of Edinburgh, 23 April 2024.
- Presenting: “The Theory-Ladenness of Claims about the Nature of Law”
- Disputationes 2023, University of Glasgow, 10 November 2023.
- Presenting: “The Epistemology of Persistent Disagreements about the Ontology of Law”
- George Dick, ‘The Dundee Student Law Review at 10: Its Roots, History and Accomplishments’ (2024) 10 Dundee Student Law Review 6.
- George Dick, ‘Grotius’ Contribution to Natural Law- A Reappraisal’ (2020) 6 Dundee Student Law Review 22.
- George Dick, ‘A Reappraisal of Solicitors’ Liabilities to Opposing Parties and the (Further) Retreat from Caparo – Steel and Another v NRAM Ltd’ (2019) 23(2) Edinburgh Law Review 247.