The untouchables of the law. Interview with Josep Joan Moreso

Abstract

Josep Joan Moreso (Tortosa, Spain, 1959) is Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, of which he was Rector (2005-2013). After finishing his Ph.D. dissertation on Jeremy Bentham’s Legal Theory at Autonomous University of Barcelona, he became Visiting Fellow in the Universities of Buenos Aires, Oxford, Balliol College, and Genoa. He taught in the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Girona. His research interest has been focused on issues related to the concept of law, theoretical disagreements, legal interpretation, dynamics and identity of legal systems, and foundations of constitutionalism, among others. Professor Moreso is well-known for his defense of the thesis of “Inclusive Legal Positivism” as well as for playing a leading role in our contemporary legal philosophy. Moreover, the University of Valparaiso, Chile and the University Antenor Orregor, of Trujillo, Peru, conferred Honorary Doctorates on him. Since 2013 is Visiting Reader at the University Diego Portales, Chile. These are some of his publications: Legal Indeterminacy and Constitutional Interpretation (Kluwer, 1998); ‘Ways of Solving Conflicts of Constitutional Rights: Proportionalism and Specificationism’ (2012); ‘Legal Defeasibility and the Connection between Law and Morality’ (2012).