Philosophy of Law
Stephen R. Perry
John J. O'Brien Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy Director, Institute for Law and Philosophy
Stephen Perry's research interests include the methodology of jurisprudence, the general nature of authority and obligation in law, the role of corrective justice in tort law, the morality of risk imposition, and the relationship between legal and moral responsibility.
Risk, Harm, Interests, and Rights, in RISK: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES 190 (Tim Lewens ed., Routledge 2007).
Hart on Social Rules and the Foundations of Law: Liberating the Internal Point of View, 75 FORDHAM L. REV. 1171 (2006).
Associative Obligations and the Obligation to Obey the Law, in EXPLORING LAW’S EMPIRE: THE JURISPRUDENCE OF RONALD DWORKIN 183 (Scott Hershovitz ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2006). Law and Obligation, 50 AMER. J. JURISP. 263 (2005).
Harm, History, and Counterfactuals, 40 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1283 (2003). Method and Principle in Legal Theory, 111 YALE L.J. 1757 (2002).
Claire Finkelstein
HOBBES’ LEGAL THEORY (work-in-progress).
Acting on an Intention, in REASON, INTENTION AND MORALITY (Gijs Van Donselaar & Bruno Verbeek eds., Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming 2007).
A Contractarian Argument Against the Death Penalty, 81 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1283 (2006).
Hobbes and the Internal Point of View, 75 FORDHAM L. REV. 1211 (2006).
Report for British Law Commission on American Murder Law, Completed September, 2005 (available upon request), published in British Law Commission CP177 (December 20, 2005).
Merger and Felony Murder, in DEFINING CRIMES: ESSAYS ON THE CRIMINAL LAW’S “SPECIAL PORT” (Antony Duff & Stuart Green eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2005).
William Ewald
James Wilson at the Constitutional Convention, U. PA. J. CONST. L. (forthcoming 2007-8).
THE STYLE OF AMERICAN LAW (forthcoming).
FROM KANT TO HILBERT: A SOURCE BOOK IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS (2 vol., Oxford University Press 1996).
Comparative Jurisprudence: What Was it Like to Try a Rat?, 1995 U. PA. L. REV. 1889.
Unger' s Philosophy: A Critical Legal Study, 1988 YALE L.J. 665.
Samuel Freeman
Avalon Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Philosophy and Law
Samuel Freeman works in social and political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of law. He has written books on Justice and the Social Contract, and on the political philosophy of John Rawls. He edited the Cambridge Companion to Rawls (2002), as well as John Rawls's Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy (2007) and his Collected Papers (1999). He is currently working on longer term projects on contractarianism, and on globalism and distributive justice.
Rawls, (The Philosophers Series, Routledge, 2007)
Justice and the Social Contract, (Oxford University Press, 2006)
'The Burdens of Public Justification,' Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, 6 (No.1, 2007): 5-43
"Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is not a Liberal View" Philosophy and Public Affairs, 30, 2 (Spring 2002), 105-151.
“John Rawls: An Overview,” in The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Samuel Freeman, ed., 1-61.
“Deliberative Democracy: A Sympathetic Comment,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 29, 4 (Fall 2000 issue), 371-418
“Utilitarianism, Deontology, and the Priority of Right,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 23, 4 (Fall 1994), pp.313-349.
“Original Meaning, Democratic Interpretation, and the Constitution,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 21, 1 (Winter 1992), pp.3-42.
“Reason and Agreement in Social Contract Views,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 19, 2 (Spring 1990), pp.122-157.
Anita L. Allen
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
- Privacy Law, Theory and Values
- Legal Theory
- Contemporary Ethics and Bioethics
- Mental Illness
- Accountability
- Race Relations
- Gender and the Law
The New Ethics: A Tour of the 21st Century, Miramax Books 2004.
Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability, Rowman and LIttlefield, 2003.
Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
