Convening Team

In 2026-2027 the three convenors of the Jurisprudence Discussion Group are Clara Martner Sota, Thomas Bullemore, and Marcelo Melo. 

For information about past convenors, you can visit our History page.




Clara Martner Sota 🔗

Clara is a DPhil candidate and Tang Scholar at Balliol College, supervised by Prof James Edwards. Her research examines the wrongfulness of hate crimes.



Thomas Bullemore 🔗

Thomas Bullermore is a DPhil candidate and Roche Scholar at New College, supervised by Professors David Enoch and Timothy Williamson. His research articulates a positivist-in-spirit reduction of the legal to the non-legal via radical interpretation of shared mental content.

Marcelo Melo      

Marcelo is a DPhil Candidate and Tang Scholar at Balliol College, supervised by Prof Richard Ekins. His research focuses on the notion of objectivity in legal interpretation and its relationship with the rule of law.