BIO: Dr Daniel Matthews is Associate Professor of Law at the Warwick Law School, University of Warwick. He teaches and publishes in the fields of jurisprudence, political theory, and law and the humanities with a particular focus on theories of sovereignty and political community.
Daniel has held visiting positions at the University of Glasgow and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. Before joining Warwick, Daniel was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. Daniel’s work has been published in leading journals, including The Modern Law Review; Law and Critique; Transnational Legal Theory; Social and Legal Studies; and Law, Culture and the Humanities. He is co-editor with Scott Veitch of Law, Obligation, Community (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor with Tara Mulqueen of Being Social: Law, Ontology, Politics (Counterpress, 2015). His first monograph, Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene (EUP, 2021), was awarded the Penny Pether Prize by the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia.
