Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco is Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy (Jurisprudence) at the University of Surrey, UK. She studied law and philosophy at the University of Oxford (Mjur, Balliol College) and the University of Cambridge (PhD, Corpus Christi College). Her research is located at the intersection of practical reason and law. She draws insights from ancient, medieval and contemporary moral psychology and action theory to illuminate the nature of private law, the state and legal authority. Her research has been published in leading journals and she is the author of the monographs Responsibility for Negligence in Law and Ethics: Perspective, Aspiration and Maturity (OUP, 2025) and Law and Authority Under the Guise of the Good (Oxford: Hart /Bloomsbury, 2014). She has co-edited Agency, Negligence and Responsibility (CUP, 2021), Dignity in the Legal and Political Philosophy of Ronald Dworkin (OUP, 2018) and Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency (CUP, 2015). Recently, she has been awarded the Alexander Von Humboldt-Von Siemmens Fellowship at the University of Munich and the Barbara Huber Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg. She was Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellow at the EUI (Florence) and Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna and the University of Stockholm. Her research has been funded by the British Academy and the Cambridge Overseas Trust. She has been invited to deliver keynote lectures and papers at prestigious Universities in USA, Canada, Europe and South-America.
