Dr Antony Hatzistavrou

Antony is senior lecturer in legal and political philosophy and teaches in both Politics and Law. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the Open University (UK) and a BA on Philosophy, Psychology and Education from the University of Athens (Greece). Before coming to Hull he taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Leeds, Patras and Cyprus and held a visiting fellowship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He was awarded a visiting fellowship at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University and a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. His book on law, authority and expertise in ancient legal and political philosophy is forthcoming by Routledge and he is currently working on a manuscript on Plato's theory of law.

Antony is the president of the UK branch of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clsgc/ivr/) and is on the editorial board of the Collegium Politicum (https://www.collegiumpoliticum.org/publications)

Recent and forthcoming publications include:

'Law and Political Authoritarianism in Plato's Statesman', Polis 43 (1) 2026, 120-141 (doi: 10.1163/20512996-12340496)

'Ancient theories of norms of conduct and language', in The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, edited by Stephanie Collins, Brian Epstein, Sally Haslanger & Hans B. Schmid, Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford, forthcoming in 2026, 17-37.

'Law and its functions' in The Platonic Mind, edited by Peter Larsen and Vasilis Politis, Routledge, London, 2025, 347-357 (doi:10.4324/9781003541134-29)

The Normativity of Law: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives special issue for Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, Volume 4, Issue Supplement, co-edited with Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, 2022. (https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2022.0075)