Dr Rob Mullins
Associate Investigator (ADM+S Centre)
School of Social Science
Senior Lecturer
TC Beirne School of Law

Book Chapter
Mullins, Rob (2022). Lesser evils, mere permissions and justifying reasons in law. New essays on the nature of legal reasoning. (pp. 259-280) edited by Mark McBride and James Penner. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781509937684.ch-012
Journal Articles
Mullins, Robert (2022). Two factor-based models of precedential constraint: a comparison and proposal. Artificial Intelligence and Law, 1-36. doi: 10.1007/s10506-022-09335-6
Mullins, Robert (2022). Presupposing legal authority. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 42 (2), 411-437. doi: 10.1093/ojls/gqab038
Mullins, Robert (2021). Formalizing reasons, oughts, and requirements. Ergo, 7 (22), 568-599. doi: 10.3998/ergo.1119
Mullins, Robert (2020). Book review: Arthur Ripstein, Private Wrongs, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, 313 pp, hb $49.95. Modern Law Review, 83 (5), 1104-1108. doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12526
Mullins, Robert (2020). Protected reasons and precedential constraint—erratum. Legal Theory, 26 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1017/s1352325220000166
Mullins, Robert (2020). Protected reasons and precedential constraint. Legal Theory, 26 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.1017/s1352325220000075
Mullins, Robert (2020). Moral conflict and the logic of rights. Philosophical Studies, 177 (3), 633-651. doi: 10.1007/s11098-018-1197-1
Mullins, Robert (2019). Rights, roles and interests. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 16 (2), 95-115. doi: 10.26556/jesp.v16i2.398
Bigwood, Rick and Mullins, Rob (2018). Teaching Contract Vitiation in Australia: New Challenges in Subject Design. Bond Law Review, 30 (2), 185-216. doi: 10.53300/001c.6797
Mullins, Robert (2018). Detachment and deontic language in Law. Law and Philosophy, 37 (4), 1-34. doi: 10.1007/s10982-017-9313-5
Mullins, Robert (2018). Legal positivism and deontic detachment. Ratio Juris, 31 (1), 4-8. doi: 10.1111/raju.12191
Mullins, Robert (2017). Children’s rights and parents’ rights. Jurisprudence: an international journal of legal and political thought, 8 (3), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/20403313.2017.1380902
Mullins, Robert (2015). Police misconduct in Queensland: a public wrong. University of Queensland Law Journal, 34 (2), 287-299.
Conference Papers
Governatori, Guido and Mullins, Robert (2019). Deontic closure and conflict in legal reasoning. 32nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2019), Madrid, Spain, 11-13 December 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/FAIA190322
Mullins, Robert (2016). Rights in default logic. 13th International Conference, DEON 2016, Bayreuth, Germany, 18-21 July 2016. London, United Kingdom: College Publications.
Thesis
Mullins, Robert (2016). Relational Norms. PhD Thesis, University of Oxford, University of Oxford.