Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco

Professor Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco is a Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy (Jurisprudence) at the University of Surrey’s Surrey Law School. She holds academic qualifications from prestigious institutions, including a PhD in Legal Philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Corpus Christi College). Her roles include Head of the Law School (2016–2018), Chair of the University’s Animal Welfare Ethical Review Body (2019–2021), and Director of Postgraduate Research Studies (2019–2022).

Her research focuses on practical reason, legal authority, and normativity, drawing from Aristotelian, medieval, and contemporary moral psychology. Key areas include tort law, responsibility, and transnational legal theory. She has been awarded the Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellowship (2012), Humboldt and Siemens Fellowships (2019), and Max Planck Fellowships (2023–2025).

• Education: LLB (Catholic University, Caracas), MgSc (Central University, Caracas), MJur (Oxford, Balliol College), PhD (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College).
• Research Highlights: Responsibility for Negligence in Ethics and Law (2025) and Law and Authority Under the Guise of the Good (2014).
• Awards: Fernand Braudel Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Barbara Huber Fellowship.
• Supervision: Advises Chantal Frindall and Andrew Field on topics like refugee law and legal responsibility.

Her work bridges law and ethics, emphasizing civic maturity and the deliberative-aspirational perspective in negligence law. She co-edits the journal Jurisprudence and contributes to global legal philosophy initiatives, including the Women in Legal Philosophy network.