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Publications

  • S. Delacroix, Habitual Ethics?, Bloomsbury/ Hart Publishing, 2022


This book has been reviewed in:

-The British Journal of General Practice: review by Richard Lehman, November 2023

-Jurisprudence: book symposium with reviews by Gerald Postema, Mario De Caro and Sarah Fine, published online on 07th April 2024. My reply: https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2024.2322340



  • S. Delacroix, Legal Norms and Normativity: an Essay in Genealogy, Hart Publishing, 2006 (Peter Birks 2d Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, 2008)


This book has been reviewed in:

-The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies: review by Maks Del Mar, summer 2007

-Legal Studies: review by Dan Priel in 2007



  • S. Delacroix, 'Symposium on Habitual Ethics? A reply'. Jurisprudence, 1–10, 2024 
  • S. Delacroix, 'Sustainable Data Rivers?, Critical AI, 2 (1), 2024
  • A. Giannopoulou, J. Ausloos, S. Delacroix and H. Janssen, "Intermediating Data Rights Exercises: the role of legal mandates", International Data Privacy Law, 12 (4), 2022, 316-331
  • S. Delacroix, "Professional Responsibility: Conceptual Rescue and Plea for Reform", Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 42 (1), 2022, 1-26
  • S. Delacroix, "Diachronic Interpretability and Automated Systems", Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law, 1 (1), 2022
  • S. Delacroix, “Computing Machinery, Surprise and Originality”, Philosophy & Technology, 34, 2021, 1195-1211
  • B. Wagner and S. Delacroix, “Constructing a Mutually Supportive Interface between Ethics and Regulation”, Computer Law and Security Review, vol. 40, 2021
  • S. Delacroix and N. Lawrence, “Bottom-up data Trusts: disturbing the one-size-fits-all approach to data governance”, International Data Privacy Law, 9 (4), 2019, 236-252, doi: 10.1093/idpl/ipz014
  • S. Delacroix, “At a cross-roads? The courts’ shifting apprehension of the vulnerability at stake in the lay-healthcare provider relationship”, Journal of Medical Law and Ethics, 2019(2) 
  • S. Delacroix, “Understanding normativity: the impact of culturally-loaded explanatory ambitions”, Revus, 37, 2019, doi: 10.4000/revus.4773
  • S. Delacroix, “Computer systems fit for the legal profession”, Legal Ethics, 21(2), 2019, 119-135, doi: 10.1080/1460728x.2018.1551702
  • O. Drewett, G. Hann, M. Fyfe, P. Gillies, C. Sher, S. Delacroix, X. Pan, C. Fertleman, `A Discussion of the Use of Virtual Reality for Training Healthcare Practitioners to Recognise Child Protection Issues’, Frontiers in Public Health, 2019, doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00255
  • X. Pan, C. Fertleman, P. Pleasance, D. Swapp, O. Drewett, T. Collingwoode-William, B. Congdon, S. Delacroix: “A study of professional awareness using immersive virtual reality: the responses of general practitioners to child safeguarding concerns”, Frontiers in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, 2018, doi: 10.3389/frobt.2018.00080
  • C. Fertleman, P. Aubugeau-Williams, C. Sher, A.N. Lim, S. Lumley, S. Delacroix, and X. Pan. "A Discussion of virtual reality as a New tool for training Healthcare Professionals." Frontiers in public health 6 (2018): 44, doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00044
  • S. Delacroix, “Law and Habits”, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 37 (3), 1 September 2017, Pages 660–686 
  • X. Pan, M. Slater, A. Beacco, X. Navarro, D. Swapp, J. Hale, P. Forbes, C. Denvir, A. F. de C. Hamilton, S. Delacroix, “The Responses of Medical General Practitioners to Unreasonable Patient Demand for Antibiotics – A study of medical ethics using immersive virtual reality”, PLoS ONE, 11(2), 2016
  • S. Delacroix, “From constitutional words to statehood? The Palestinian case”, Cambridge International Law Journal, 3(4), 2014, 1164-1181, doi: 10.7574/cjicl.03.04244
  • S. Delacroix, “Drafting a constitution for a `Country of words': the Palestinian case”, Middle East Law and Governance, 4 (2), 2012, 72-91 [pre-publication version available here]
  • S. Delacroix, “Meta-ethical agnosticism in legal theory: mapping a way out”, Jurisprudence, 1 (2), 2010, 225-240 [pre-publication version available here]
  • S. Delacroix, “You'd better be committed: legal norms and normativity”, American Journal of Jurisprudence, 54 (1), 2009, 117-132 [pre-publication version available here]
  • S. Delacroix, “Schmitt's critique of Kelsenian normativism”, Ratio Juris, 18(1), 2005, 30-45 [pre-publication version available here]
  • S. Delacroix, “Hart's and Kelsen's understandings of normativity contrasted”, Ratio Juris, 17(4), 2004, 501-520, [pre-publication version available here]
  • S. Delacroix, “Montaigne's inquiry into the sources of normativity”, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 16(2), 2003, 271-286, [pre-publication version available here]
  • S. Delacroix, “Du silence au bruit: possibilités de discours sur les origines fondatrices du système juridique”, Revue interdisciplinaire d'études juridiques, 47, 2001, 153-177


  • Marcus Lewis, Sylvie Delacroix, David Fraile Navarro, Richard Lehman, 'The Human Element in the Age of AI: Balancing Technology and Meaning in Medicine', in Finding Meaning in Healthcare:Looking Through the Hermeneutic Window, Rupal Shah & Robert Clarke (eds.), Routledge, 2025
  • S. Delacroix and J. Montgomery, 'From Research Data Ethics Principles to Practice: Data Trusts as a Governance Tool', forthcoming in Pogrebna, G. & Hills, T. (2026) eds. Handbook of Behavioural Data Science, Cambridge University Press [pre-publication version available here]
  • S. Delacroix, J. Pineau and J. Montgomery, 'Democratising the digital revolution: the role of data governance', in Reflections on AI for Humanity, Braunschweig & Ghallab (eds.), Springer, 2021, pp. 40-52 [pre-publication version available here]
  • S. Delacroix, ‘Automated Systems and the Need for Change’, in Is Law Computable?, Christopher Markou & Simon Deakin (Eds), Hart Publishing, 2020, pp. 161-175, [pre-publication version available here]
  • S. Delacroix, 'Preserving us from regulatory power? Legal normativity and the possibility of agency', in C. Bezemek, M. Potacs and A. Somek (eds), Normativism and Anti-Normativism in Legal Theory, Vienna Lectures in Legal Philosophy, Hart Publishing, 2020, [pre-publication version available here]
  • S.Delacroix and C. Denvir, 'Virtually Teaching Ethics? Experiencing the discrepancy between abstract ethical stands and actual behaviour using Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR)', in C. Denvir (ed.), Modernising Legal Education, CUP, 2020, [pre-publication version available here]e
  • S. Delacroix and M. Veale, 'Smart Technologies and Our Sense of Self: Going Beyond Epistemic Counter-Profiling, in Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency, Mireille Hildebrandt & Kieron O'Hara (eds.), 2020, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., [pre-publication version available here]
  • S. Delacroix, 'From agency-enhancement intentions to profile-based optimisation tools: what is lost in translation’ in M. Hildebrandt (ed.), Being Profiled. Cogitas Ergo Sum, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, [pre-publication version available here]
  • 'Making law bind: legal normativity as a dynamic concept', in M. Del Mar (ed.), New waves in philosophy of law, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 147-160, [pre-publication version available here]
  • 'Tracing a genealogy of legal normativity: responsibility, authorship and contingency', in S. Bertea and G. Pavlakos (eds), New Essays on the Normativity of Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011, pp. 310-320
  • 'Six paths to vertigo-free legal theory', in R. Harrisson (ed.), Current Legal Issues: Law and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2007
  • “The rule of law”, in Iain MacKenzie (ed.), Political concepts: a reader and a guide, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, 314-322


  • M. Veale (lead author), S. Delacroix, S. Ohlede, C. Blacklaws, S. Bhatti, The Law Society of England and Wales, Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System (The Law Society of England and Wales, 2019)


  • S. Delacroix and N. Lawrence, Letter to the Financial Times: ‘Legal instruments exist to empower us, the data subjects’
  • S. Delacroix and N. Lawrence, Letter to the Financial Times: ‘Intelligent sharing of data can save lives’


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