Barbara Huber Scholarship Holder

Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy (Jurisprudence) at the University of Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy, UK. She studied law and legal philosophy at the Catholic University, Caracas-Venezuela (Qualifying Law Degree), the Central University, Caracas-Venezuela (Mg. Sc. in Logic and Philosophy of Science), the University of Oxford (Magister Juris), and the University of Cambridge (PhD). She is the author of numerous articles and co-editor of Agency, Negligence and Responsibility (CUP, 2021), Dignity in the Legal and Political Philosophy of Ronald Dworkin (OUP, 2018), Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency (Cambridge: CUP, 2015), and Bernard Williams on Law and Jurisprudence (Hart, forthcoming 2025). She has written the monograph Law and Authority Under the Guise of the Good (Hart, 2014, paperback 2017). In her forthcoming monograph, Responsibility for Negligence in Law and Ethics: Aspiration, Perspective, and Civic Maturity (OUP, forthcoming 2025), she defends an Aristotelian-inspired conception of deliberation to ground responsibility for careless or inadvertent actions in ethics and law. She has received fellowships and grants from the British Academy, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the European University Institute (Fernand Braudel Fellow), the ECR (Research Professorship, Vienna), FAPERJ, the Cambridge Overseas Trust, and the British Council. She is co-editor of the journal Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought.

María Lucila Tuñón Corti holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018) and an LL.M. from the University of Würzburg, Germany (2021). She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Würzburg and a DAAD scholarship holder since October 2021. Her main research interests are the philosophy of criminal law and bioethics. The topic of her doctoral dissertation is “Ex Post Triage and Criminal Law.”