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Dr Amanda Perreau-Saussine

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M.A. Ph.D. (Cantab.), Barrister (Inner Temple)
University Lecturer
Philosophy of law; public international law; history and philosophies of public international law; English constitutional and administrative law; comparative constitutional law; history and philosophies of public law.
Dr Perreau-Saussine is on leave while receiving intensive chemotherapy. She is best contacted by post at Queens' College or at her home address, and is very grateful for the very many messages and letters of support she has received.
Amanda Perreau-Saussine is a University Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, where since 2000 she has been researching in and teaching the philosophy of law, public international law, and constitutional law; she is also a Visiting Professor at Paris II. For publications and invited lectures, please see below.
She has been a Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Queens' College, Cambridge since 2007 and the Assistant Director of Cambridge's Centre for Public Law since 2005. She was previously a Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Newnham College, Cambridge (2000-2007); a Lecturer in Law at King's College, London (1998-2000); and before her doctoral studies (1994-1998) worked in the Legal and International Organisations Program of Amnesty International's International Secretariat in London.
She has been invited to give talks and lectures overseas in Austria (Vienna), Canada (Osgoode Hall; Toronto), France (Paris II), the Netherlands (Tilburg), Switzerland (Fribourg; Geneva) and the United States of America (Chapel Hill (UNC), Dartmouth, Duke, Georgetown, NYU, Princeton), has held visiting research positions at Oxford (HLA Hart Fellow, University College 2007) and Princeton (Center for Theological Inquiry, 2006-9), and as a Visiting Professor at Paris II from 2010-2012.
Lectures and supervises International Law and Jurisprudence.
Lectures Public Law (Tripos Seminar).
Supervises Constitutional Law.
Lectures Jurisprudence.
Forthcoming: 'Law as a guide to justice - old questions for new natural lawyers' (Princeton UP)
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"Review of The idea of human rights by Michael Perry" 58 Cambridge Law Journal (1999) 222-259
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"Emile Perreau-Saussine - obituary/press statement after Coroner's inquest 16.11.10"
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"British acts of state in English courts" 2007 BYIL 179-254
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"Bentham and the boot-strappers of jurisprudence" 63 CLJ (July 2004) 346–38
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"The shades of grey in the rule of international law (on CND v Prime Minister)" 62 CLJ (2003) 538
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"Positive law as a guide to natural justice" (Georgetown Law and Philosophy Workshop, Jan 2010)
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"Natural law and international law" (Princeton (Center for Theological Inquiry), Jan 2008)
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"Old questions for new natural lawyers" (Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group, Nov 2007)
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"Kant and Kantian philosophies of international law" (Universities of Fribourg and Oxford, Feb 2007)
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"Hart’s method in jurisprudence" (Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy, Nov 2005)
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"Christopher St German" (Centre for Public Law, Cambridge, May 2005)
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"The noble lie of legal positivism" (Moral Sciences Club, University of Cambridge, Feb 2004)
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Article/Casenote/Book Excerpt (8 items)
"Pyrrhic public law: Bancoult and the sources, status and content of common law limitations on prerogative power"
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"Lauterpacht and Vattel on the sources of international law"
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"The character of customary law"
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"Immanuel Kant on international law"
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"Foreign views on eating aliens: The roots and implications of recent English decisions on customary..."
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"British acts of state in English courts"
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"Bentham and the bootstrappers of jurisprudence: the moral commitments of a rationalist legal positivist" 63 CLJ (2004
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"An outsider on the inside: Hart's limits on jurisprudence"
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Miscellaneous (1 items)
Emile Perreau-Saussine - press statement/obituary after Coroner's inquest 16.11.10
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