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Dr Nathan Moore

Positions held:
  • Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck Law School
  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Nathan Moore joined Birkbeck School of Law in 2004 as a Lecturer in Law. He currently teaches Land Law and Algorithms and the Law.


  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Law and philosophy
    • Concepts of justice
    • Law and technology
    • Property as idea and thing

    Research overview

    My current research covers two areas.  First, the idea of justice in the Anthropocene.  This work critiques current dominant modes of justice, such as those derived from Rawls, intersectionality, and phenomenology.  In particular, I am concerned to show how the notion of 'desert' perpetuates a division between 'human' on the one hand, and the 'non-' and 'sub-human' on the other.  The relevance of this critique is to show how dominant modes of justice inevitably shade into injustice and, more importantly, to advance a new concept of justice which avoids doing so.

    Second, I am interested in law and technology.  I start from the position that law has always been a variety of technology, and that this became particularly apparent during modernity.  My focus is on what happens to law - and our ideas about what law is and can do - once we shift from the dominance of visible, energetic, and machinic technologies to the dominance of invisible, informatic, and electronic ones.

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions within Birkbeck:
    8

    I am currently involved in supervising students working on law and AI, law and human rights, and law and architecture.  In the past, I have been involved in the successful supervision of students working on law and urban planning, law and alternative property, law and philosophy, law and transgender spaces, and law and power.

    Current doctoral researchers

    • AGNIESZKA KULACKA
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor, onwards
    • DAVID THOMAS
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor, onwards
      Title of thesis:
      Hobbes, Winstanley, and the origins of Human Rights

    Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

    • LIZZIE HUGHES
      Nature of supervision:
      Joint Principal Supervisor,
      Title of thesis:
      Sensing Surveillance: Critically examining the informal governance of bodies in the women’s toilets
      Awarded:
      2025
    • LETICIA DA COSTA PAES
      Nature of supervision:
      Joint Principal Supervisor,
      Title of thesis:
      An Alliance between Deleuze’s Philosophy and Jurisprudence
      Awarded:
      2024
    • HARLEY RONAN
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor,
      Title of thesis:
      The socio-spatial composition of property relationships
      Awarded:
      2022
    • SILVINA BELEN ALONSO GROSSO
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor,
      Title of thesis:
      An Intervened Landscape. Urban legislation and city planning in Buenos Aires during the last military dictatorship, 1976-1983
      Awarded:
      2022
    • SERENE JOHN-RICHARDS
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor,
      Title of thesis:
      Life, Language, Law: The Invention of Dangerous Classes
      Awarded:
      2020
    • SOO TIAN LEE
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor,
      Title of thesis:
      Law Research
      Awarded:
      2017

    Teaching

    Land law

    Algorithms and the law

    Teaching modules

    • Algorithms and the Law (LALW059S7)
    • Land Law (LALW096H5)
    • Land Law (Senior Status) (LALW099H7)
    • Land Law (GDL) (LALW116H6)
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    Book Section

    • Moore, Nathan (2024) Holy Motors: law & technology. In: Becci, V. and Katsiginis, A. and Van Daalen, E. (eds.) Law and Film: Critical Reflections on a Field in Motion. Discourses of Law. Routledge. ISBN 9781032609379.
    • Moore, Nathan (2023) Why record improvisation?. In: Mandic, D. (ed.) Hear. Law and the Senses. Cambridge, UK: University of Westminister. ISBN 9781914386367.
    • Moore, Nathan (2022) What is exhaustion? On justice and contingency. In: Goodrich, P. and Gandorfer, D. (eds.) Research Handbook on Law and Literature. Research Handbooks in Legal Theory. Elgar Press. ISBN 9781839102257. (In Press)
    • Moore, Nathan (2021) Pay it all back: writing paranoia/paranoid writing. In: Gontarski, S. (ed.) Burroughs Unbound. Cambridge, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781501362187. (In Press)
    • Bottomley, A. and Moore, Nathan (2018) On new model jurisprudence: the scholar/critic as (cosmic) artisan. In: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory. Routledge. ISBN 9781138956469.
    • Bottomley, A. and Moore, Nathan (2016) Sonorous law II: the refrain. In: de Sutter, L. (ed.) Zizek and Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138801844.
    • Moore, Nathan (2013) Diagramming control. In: Rawes, P. (ed.) Relational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature and Subjectivity. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 56-70. ISBN 9780415508582.
    • Moore, Nathan (2012) The perception of the middle. In: de Sutter, L. and McGee, K. (eds.) Deleuze and Law. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 132-150. ISBN 9780748644131.

    Conference Item

    • Bottomley, A. and Moore, Nathan (2014) Regulation of urban space. Governance and Regulation, 2014, Kent Critical Law Society Law