Dr Michael Sevel
Profile
Degrees and Qualifications
BA So Miss MA Va Tech JD MA PhD Texas
Courses Taught
- The Rule of Law and its Value
- Theories of Legal Authority
- Torts
Research Interests
- Legal Philosophy
- Rule of Law
- Moral and Political Philosophy
- Admiralty and Maritime Law
Brief Biographical Details
Michael Sevel joined the Law School in 2012 as Lecturer in Jurisprudence. Previously he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of Law (2011-12), where he taught jurisprudence, torts, and admiralty law, and Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Law of the European University Institute (2010-11).
Publications
Book Chapters | Journal Articles | Reference Works | Selected Presentations
- Sevel, M, ‘Does God Live in the Clouds?: Xenophanes on Naturalistic and Divine Explanation’ in L Rossetti and S Giombini (eds), La “Natura delle Cose” Prima di Parmenide: il Mondo Visto da Senofane [The "Nature of Things" Before Parmenides: The World Viewed by Xenophanes], Academia Verlag: Sankt Augustin (forthcoming, 2013)
- Sevel, M, ‘Hobbes: Patriarch of Legal Positivism, or Reinventor of Natural Law?’ in S A Lloyd (ed), The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes, Continuum Press (forthcoming, 2012)
- Sevel, M, ‘Review of Gerald J. Postema, Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Common Law World (Springer: 2011)’ Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (forthcoming)
- Sevel, M, ‘The Constitution of Authority’ Jurisprudence (forthcoming)
- Sevel, M, ‘Admiralty Course Offerings in United States Law Schools’ (2010) 41(4) Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 499-506
- Sevel, M, ‘Legal Positivism and the Rule of Law’ (2009) 34 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 53-68
- Sevel, M, ‘Legal Positivism’(with Brian Leiter), Oxford Bibliographies Online (2010)
- Sevel, M, ‘Knowing the Law: The Role of Testimony’ presented at Australian Society of Legal Philosophy, Macquarie University, July 2012
- Sevel, M, ‘Knowing the Law’ (Keynote Address) presented at Antwerp-Glasgow Colloquium on “Subsidiarity and Its Discontents”, Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, University of Antwerp, 17 June 2011
- Sevel, M, ‘Knowing the Law: The Role of Testimony’ presented at Louisiana State University School of Law, October 2011
- Sevel, M, ‘Knowing the Law: The Role of Testimony’ presented at University of South Carolina School of Law, October 2011
- Sevel, M, ‘Authority and the Nature of Obedience’ presented at Centre for Ethics, University of Tartu, Estonia, July 2011
- Sevel, M, ‘Authority and the Nature of Obedience’ presented at Conference on Authority, Legitimacy and Rights, University of Warwick, June 2011
- Sevel, M, ‘Freedom on the High Seas and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ presented at Max Weber Programme Lustrum Conference, European University Institute, June 2011
- Sevel, M, ‘Philosophical Theories of Causality’ presented at Multidisciplinary Research Workshop on Causality, European University Institute, May 2011
- Sevel, M, ‘Knowing the Law’ presented at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, May 2011
- Sevel, M, ‘Hobbes and Game Theory’ presented at Economics Working Group, Max Weber Programme, European University Institute, May 2011
- Sevel, M, ‘Knowing the Law’ presented at University of Girona, Spain, Seminar in Legal Theory, January 2011
- Sevel, M, ‘Authority and Self-Knowledge’ presented at University of Chicago Law School, 2010
- Sevel, M, ‘Authority and Self-Knowledge’ presented at McMaster University, Graduate Conference in Legal Theory, March 2010
- Sevel, M, ‘The Problem of Authority Reconsidered’ presented at Princeton University, Department of Politics, April 2009
- Sevel, M, ‘In Search of Instrumental Rationality’ presented at Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, April 2007
- Sevel, M, ‘In Search of Instrumental Rationality’ presented at University of Pittsburgh, 8th Annual CMU/PITT Graduate Philosophy Conference, March 2006
- Sevel, M, ‘On Knowing What to Say Next: Another Look at Wittgenstein and Rule-Scepticism’ presented at Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, April 2001
- Sevel, M, ‘Non-Cognitivism Strikes Again?: Foot and Gibbard on the Nature of Moral Judgment’ presented at Columbia University Conference on Rationality, Department of Philosophy, April 2001
- Sevel, M, ‘Non-Cognitivism Strikes Again?: Foot and Gibbard on the Nature of Moral Judgment’ presented at Virginia Tech University, March 2001
