Roger Shiner is a Canadian philosopher and adjunct professor at the

University of British Columbia Okanagan The UBC's Okanagan Campus (commonly referred to as UBC Okanagan and UBCO) is University of British Columbia's campus located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. The campus is the research and innovation hub in the province's southern interior ...

. Shiner is known for his works on

philosophy of law Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature of law and law's relationship to other systems of norms, especially ethics and political philosophy. It asks questions like "What is law?", "What are the criteria for legal vali ...

. He is a former editor of ''

Philosophy in Review ''Philosophy in Review'', formerly ''Canadian Philosophical Reviews'', is an English-language online open access journal, that specializes in the review of books about philosophy. It is published six times a year and covers all areas of and approac ...

''.

Books

* ''Legal Institutions and the Sources of Law''. Volume III of ''Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence'', 12 volumes. Enrico Pattaro, Gerald J. Postema and Peter Stein, eds. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag 2005. Pp. x + 255. One chapter contributed by A. Rotolo. * ''Freedom of Commercial Expression''. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 * ''Norm and Nature: The movements of legal thought''. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1992 * ''Knowledge and Reality in Plato's Philebus''. Assen: VanGorcum 1974

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* 21st-century Canadian philosophers Canadian philosophy academics Living people Academic staff of the University of Alberta Academic staff of the University of British Columbia Okanagan Philosophers of law Canadian ethicists Scholars of ancient Greek philosophy Philosophy journal editors Alumni of the University of Cambridge University of Alberta alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-philosopher-stub