John Blair Gardner[1] was born in Glasgow on 23 March 1965, the elder of two sons, to William Russell Williamson Gardner and Sylvia Gardner (née Hayward-Jones).[2][3][4] His parents were both Germanists.[4] His mother was a secondary school teacher[5] and his father was a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Chairman of the city's Goethe-Institut.[4]
John Gardner attended Glasgow Academy from 1970 to 1982.[6][7] He won (in 1982) a place to study modern languages at New College but switched to law before his first term (in 1983) began.[4][1]
In 2000, at the age of just 35, he was appointed Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, taking over the chair previously held by H. L. A. Hart and Ronald Dworkin.[9][10] In order to dedicate more time to his research he resigned the chair in 2016 and returned to All Souls as a senior research fellow.[5]
Gardner died of cancer in July 2019, aged 54.[2][11]
^"OBITUARY: Talented academic was a familiar face in West Oxford". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
^Death Notices - Inner Temple (as accessed 26 August 2019)
"Professor John Gardner, Master of the Bench, sadly died on Thursday 11 July 2019. The Inn’s flag flew at half-mast on Friday 19 July in his memory... Master Gardner was a Professor of Law and Philosophy and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1988 and elected as an Academic Bencher in 2003. A funeral service will be held for Master Gardner at All Souls College Chapel on Thursday 25 July at 11am,.. "
^"Professor John Gardner". The British Academy. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
^Collins, Hugh; Duff, Antony. "Gardner, John, 1965-2019" (PDF). The British Academy. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
^Gardner, John (1 April 2012). "In Defence of Offences and Defences". Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies. 4 (1): 110–128. doi:10.1093/jrls/4.1.110. ISSN 2219-7125.
^Bix, B. (2013). Law as a Leap of Faith: Essays on Law in General. By JOHN GARDNER. [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 314 pp. Hardback £39.99. ISBN: 978-0-19-969555-3.].The Cambridge Law Journal,72(2), 443-446. doi:10.1017/S0008197313000573 [author copy at Academia.Edu]
^McBride, Nicholas J. (2019). "From Personal Life to Private Law. By John Gardner. [Oxford University Press, 2018. viii + 242 pp. Hardback £29.99. ISBN 978-01-98818-75-5.]" (PDF). The Cambridge Law Journal. 78 (1): 217–219. doi:10.1017/S0008197319000035. ISSN 0008-1973. S2CID 151076009.
^Gardner, John (18 February 2020). Torts and Other Wrongs. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-885294-0.
External linksedit
Obituariesedit
John Gardner 1965 - 2019: An Appreciation (University of Oxford Law Faculty) Summary by Sandy Steele (12 July 2019)
John Gardner 1965 - 2019University of Oxford Law Faculty obituary by Annalise Acorn (17 July 2019)
The Aristotelian Society presents: Professor John Gardner (Oxford) – Discrimination: The Good, the Bad, and the Wrongful (podcast, 2017)
John Gardner on "What is Legal Pluralism?" (Osgoode Hall Law School, 8 May 2013) (Video) [also hosted here on Youtube]
Further resourcesedit
University of Oxford profile Archived 8 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine (short biography, full list of publications, research interests).
Personal home page (which includes 'post preprints' (completed but pre-refereed versions) of all his book reviews, of some of his articles and chapters, of interviews and memoirs plus links to video and audio broadcasts).
Open access papersedit
(Incomplete list) [also see homepage 'publications' and Gardner's Academia.edu page for Preprints/drafts]
see Gardner's SSRN author page for papers free for PDF download (or browser viewing with registration) titles include Law as a Leap of Faith (2000)
Legal Positivism: 5 1/2 Myths, (2001) American Journal of Jurisprudence: Vol. 46 : Iss. 1 , Article 12 [PDF view/download]
'Simply In Virtue of Being Human' The Whos and Whys of Human Rights (2007) Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol 2 No 2 (2007): Volume II, Issue 2 [PDF download]