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Dr Kara Woodbury Smith's Outputs (16)

Incentivising Law (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woodbury Smith, K. Incentivising Law.

Inclusive Legal Positivism and Entailed Law (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2023, December). Inclusive Legal Positivism and Entailed Law. Presented at Jurisprudence Discussion Group, Oxford University, Oxford, England

On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism (2021)
Journal Article
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2021). On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism. Journal of ethics & social philosophy, 20(2), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v20i2.1382

In this discussion of Emad Atiq's article "There are No Easy Counterexamples to Legal Anti-Positivism" I pose three challenges to his construction of an Inclusive Anti-positivism. I firstly argue that, contra Atiq, the moral facts that both ground IA... Read More about On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism.

The Nature of Law and Potential Coercion (2020)
Journal Article
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2020). The Nature of Law and Potential Coercion. Ratio Juris: An international journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 33(2), 223-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12288

This paper argues for a novel understanding of the relationship between law and coercion. It firstly refutes Kenneth Himma’s claim that the authorisation of coercive enforcement mechanisms is a conceptually necessary feature of law. It then claims th... Read More about The Nature of Law and Potential Coercion.

Incentivising Law
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2022, December). Incentivising Law. Presented at Women in Legal Philosophy, Guildford, England

Incentivising Law
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2022, December). Incentivising Law. Presented at Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy Seminar Series, Durham, England

The Complication with Coercion
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2020, December). The Complication with Coercion. Presented at Newcastle Law School Seminar Series: Law, Politics, and the Power of Imagination, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Law, Coercion, and Conceptual Relations
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2016, December). Law, Coercion, and Conceptual Relations. Presented at Cambridge Doctoral Workshop in Legal Theory, Cambridge, England

Jurisprudence and the Complication with Coercion
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2019, December). Jurisprudence and the Complication with Coercion. Presented at Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group Seminar Series, Edinburgh, Scotland

Law and Potential Coercion
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2017, December). Law and Potential Coercion. Presented at Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group Seminar Series, Edinburgh, Scotland

Jurisprudence and the Complication with Coercion
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2018, December). Jurisprudence and the Complication with Coercion. Presented at Cambridge Legal Theory Symposium, Cambridge, England