Dr Craig Reeves — Birkbeck, University of London

Overview

Biography

Craig studied law at the University of Southampton and went on to complete his Masters in philosophy at the University of Essex. Craig's PhD, awarded by Kings College London, explored the idea of freedom in critical theory and law. Craig has taught at various institutions, including as Lecturer in Law at Brunel University, where was Course Convenor for criminal law and jurisprudence. Craig joined Birkbeck in 2014 as Lecturer in Law.

Research

Research overview

Craig is interested in issues in legal and moral philosophy, and German critical theory. Craig has written about Hannah Arendt, criminal justice and judgment, on Theodor Adorno and freedom, and the metaphysical presuppositions of critical theory. Craig is currently working on the theory of responsibility, the implications of psychoanalysis for the philosophy of punishment, and on Adorno’s critique of moral philosophy. Craig is also finishing a book on the nature of critical theory.

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:: 1

Current doctoral researchers

ABIGAIL JACKSON

Nature of supervision:
Principal Supervisor, Jul 2023 onwards

Title of thesis:
Lost Property: Examining Dispossession in East London

Teaching

Teaching modules

Legal Argument and Language in Law (LALA227H5)
Housing, Justice and the Law (level 5) (LALW011H5)

Publications

Article

Reeves, Craig and Sinnicks, M. (2023) Totally administered heteronomy: Adorno on work, leisure and politics in the age of digital capitalism. Journal of Business Ethics ISSN 0167-4544.
Reeves, Craig and Sinnicks, M. (2023) Needs, creativity and care: Adorno and the future of work. Organisation 30 (5), pp. 851-872. ISSN 1350-5084.
Reeves, Craig and Sinnicks, M. (2022) Adorno's critique of work in Market Society. Business Ethics Journal Review 10 (1), pp. 1-7. ISSN 2326-7526.
Reeves, Craig and Sinnicks, M. (2021) Business Ethics From the Standpoint of Redemption: Adorno on the Possiblity of Good Work. Business Ethics Quarterly 31 (4), pp. 500-523. ISSN 1052-150X.
Reeves, Craig (2019) What punishment expresses. Social and Legal Studies 28 (1), pp. 31-57. ISSN 0964-6639.
Reeves, Craig (2016) Adorno, freedom and criminal law: the ‘Determinist Challenge’ revitalised. Law and Critique 27 (3), pp. 323-348. ISSN 0957-8536.
Reeves, Craig (2016) Beyond the postmetaphysical turn: ethics and metaphysics in critical theory. Journal of Critical Realism 15 (3), pp. 217-244. ISSN 1476-7430.
Reeves, Craig (2014) Criminal law and the autonomy assumption. Journal of Critical Realism 13 (4), pp. 339-367. ISSN 1476-7430.
Reeves, Craig (2013) Freedom, dialectic and philosophical anthropology. Journal of Critical Realism 12 (1), pp. 13-44. ISSN 1476-7430.
Reeves, Craig (2009) Causality and critical theory: nature's order in Adorno, Cartwright and Bhaskar. Journal of Critical Realism 8 (3), pp. 316-342. ISSN 1476-7430.
Reeves, Craig (2009) 'Exploding the limits of law': judgment and freedom in Arendt and Adorno. Res Publica 15 (2), pp. 137-164. ISSN 1356-4765.

Book Review

Reeves, Craig (2018) Book review: Alan Norrie, Justice and the Slaughter Bench.
Reeves, Craig (2016) Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly.
Reeves, Craig (2013) Deborah Cook, Adorno on Nature.

Book Section

Sinnicks, M. and Wosu, E. and Reeves, Craig (2025) "Mild Preparations": work, practices, and the internal good of recognition. In: Bielskis, A. (ed.) Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism: AI, Automation and Alienation. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350510715. (In Press)
Sinnicks, M. and Reeves, Craig (2022) Work. In: Sellers, M. and Kirste, S. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer. ISBN 9789400767300.
Reeves, Craig (2022) Responsibility beyond blame: unfree agency and the moral psychology of criminal law's persons. In: Lernestedt, C. and Matravers, M. (eds.) The Criminal Law's Person. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing. pp. 139-166. ISBN 9781509923748.
Reeves, Craig and Norrie, A. and Carvalho, H. (2019) Between persecution and reconciliation: criminal justice, legal form and human emancipation. In: Christodoulidis, E. and Goldoni, M. (eds.) Research Handbook of Critical Legal Theory. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781786438881.
Reeves, Craig (2011) Judgment and solidarity: towards a phenomenology of moral and legal judging in Arendt and Adorno. In: Murphy, C. and Green, P. (eds.) Law and Outsiders: Norms, Processes and 'Othering' in the 21st Century. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing. pp. 271-290. ISBN 9781847316349.