Mitchell N. Berman (philosophy of criminal law,
constitutional law and theory, political philosophy) is the Bernard J. Ward
Centennial Professor of Law, and has also taught at the Universities of
Chicago and Michigan (Ann Arbor). He is a member of the editorial board of
Legal Theory. Representative publications: "Lesser Evils and
Justification: A Less Close Look" (Law & Philosophy, 2005);
"Constitutional Decision Rules" (Virginia Law Review, 2004);
"Justification and Excuse in Law and Morality" (Duke Law Journal,
2003); "The Evidentiary Theory of Blackmail: Taking Motives Seriously"
(University of Chicago Law Review, 1998).
Jane Maslow Cohen (bioethics, feminist legal theory,
political philosophy) is the Edward Clark Centennial Professor of Law, and
taught previously at Boston University. Representative publications:
"Genephobia: Some Preliminaries" (University of Pennsylvania Law
Review, 2001) (with Diver); "Equality for Girls and Other Women"
(Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 1998); "A Jurisprudence of
Doubt: Deliberative Autonomy and Abortion" (Columbia Journal of Gender
and the Law, 1992).
Jonathan Dancy (ethics and metaethics, epistemology) is
Professor of Philosophy at Texas (in residence for one semester each year) and
at the University of Reading, and has also taught at Georgetown and
Northwestern Universities and the Universities of Keele and Pittsburgh.
Representative Publications: Ethics Without Principles (Oxford University
Press, 2004); Practical Reality (Oxford University Press, 2000);
Moral Reasons (Blackwell, 1993); An Introduction to Contemporary
Epistemology (Blackwell, 1985).
John Deigh (ethics, moral psychology, political and legal
philosophy, philosophy of criminal law) is Professor of Philosophy and Law,
and taught previously at Northwestern University and the University of
Chicago. He is editor of the journal Ethics and a member of the editorial
board of Law and Philosophy. Representative publications: The Oxford
Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law (forthcoming) (co-editor);
Emotions, Values and the Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming);
The Sources of Moral Agency: Essays in Moral Psychology and Freudian
Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1996); "Promises Under Fire"
(Ethics, 2002); "Liberalism and Freedom" (in Social and Political
Philosophy, Routledge, 2001); "All Kinds of Guilt"
(Law and Philosophy, 1999); "Reason and Ethics in Hobbes's Leviathan"
(Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1996).
Leslie J. Green (legal and political philosophy) is an
on-going Visiting Professor of Law and Philosophy at Texas and the Professor
of the Philosophy of Law at Oxford University. He has also taught at Osgoode
Hall/York University, Toronto, New York University, and Boalt Hall School of
Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He serves on the editorial
boards of Law and Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Law &
Jurisprudence and Legal Theory. Representative
Publications: The Authority of the State (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1988); "General Jurisprudence: A 25th Anniversary Essay" (Oxford
Journal of Legal Studies, 2005); "Law and Obligations" (in The
Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy, 2002); "Positivism
and Conventionalism" (Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence,
1999); "The Concept of Law Revisited" (Michigan Law Review,
1996).
Mark Greenberg (philosophy of mind, moral and legal
philosophy) is a Harrington Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor from UCLA
for the calendar year 2007. He has also taught at Princeton University.
Representative Publications: "Conceptual Role Semantics" (in The
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language) (with Harman); "How Facts Make
Law" (Legal Theory, 2004); "The Meaning of Original Meaning"
(Georgetown Law Journal, 1998) (with Litman).
Benjamin Gregg (legal, political, and social theory,
Anglo-American and Continental) is Associate Professor of Government.
Representative publications: Thick Moralities, Thin Politics:
Social Integration Across Communities of Belief (Duke University Press,
2003); Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms: A Theory of
Enlightened Localism (SUNY Press, 2003); "Using Legal Rules in an
Indeterminate World: Overcoming the Limitations of Jurisprudence"
(Political Theory, 1999).
Robert H. Kane (ethics, free will and moral responsibility)
is Professor of Philosophy. Representative publications: The
Oxford Handbook of Free Will (2001) (ed.); The Significance of Free
Will (Oxford University Press, 1996); "Responsibility, Luck and Chance"
(Journal of Philosophy, 1999).
Larry Laudan (philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy
of evidence) is a Visiting Professor of Law at Texas (teaching an 8-week
seminar on the epistemology of proof in law, and related topics, typically
every other year) and Professor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico. He was the founding chair of the History and Philosophy
of Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught for
many years. Representative Publications: Truth, Error, and Criminal
Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006); Science and Relativism
(University of Chicago Press, 1990); Progress and Its Problems
(University of California Press, 1977).
Brian Leiter (legal philosophy, ethics and metaethics,
metaphysics and epistemology, Continental philosophy) holds the Hines H. Baker
& Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law and is Professor of Philosophy and
Director of the LPP. He has been a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School,
University of Chicago Law School and University College London. He is editor
of the journal Legal Theory, editor of the Routledge
Philosophers book series, and a member of the editorial boards of
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews and Episteme: A Journal of
Social Epistemology, among others. Representative publications:
Naturalizing Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press, 2007);
Nietzsche on Morality (London: Routledge, 2002); Objectivity in
Law and Morals (Cambridge University Press, 2001) (editor);
"Beyond the Hart/Dworkin Debate: The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence"
(American Journal of Jurisprudence, 2003); "Legal Realism and Legal
Positivism Reconsidered" (Ethics, 2001); "Naturalized Epistemology
and the Law of Evidence" (Virginia Law Review, 2001) (with
Allen).
Sanford Levinson (constitutional and political theory, law
and literature, legal ethics) holds the Garwood Centennial Chair in Law and is
Professor of Government. He has also taught at Boston, Harvard, New York,
Princeton, and Yale Universities, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts & Sciences. Representative publications: Our Undemocratic
Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2006); Wrestling with
Diversity (Duke University Press, 2003); Constitutional Faith
(Princeton University Press, 1988); Interpreting Law and Literature
(Northwestern University Press, 1988) (ed. with Mailloux); "The Lawyer as
Moral Counselor" (Notre Dame Law Review, 2002); "Is Liberal
Nationalism an Oxymoron?" (Ethics, 1995).
Richard S. Markovits (constitutional and legal theory,
economic analysis of law) holds the John B. Connally Chair in Law, and has
also taught at Oxford and Stanford Universities. Representative
publications: Matters of Principle: Legitimate Legal Argument and
Constitutional Interpretation (New York University Press, 1998);
"On the Economic Efficiency of Using Law to Increase Research and Development"
(Harvard Journal on Legislation, 2002).
Russell Muirhead (political philosophy) is Associate
Professor of Government, and has also taught at Harvard University and
Williams College. Representative publication: Just Work
(Harvard University Press, 2004).
John A. Robertson (bioethics, constitutional and criminal law
and theory) holds the Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law and is a member of the
editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics.
Representative publications: Children of Choice: Freedom and the
New Reproductive Technologies (Princeton University Press, 1994);
"Crossing the Ethical Chasm: Embryo Status and Moral Complicity" (American
Journal of Bioethics, 2002); "Human Cloning and the Challenge of
Regulation" (New England Journal of Medicine, 1998); "Liberty,
Identity, and Human Cloning" (Texas Law Review, 1998).
Lawrence G. Sager (constitutional, political, and legal
theory) holds the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair in Law and is
also Dean of the Law School. He has also taught at Boston, Harvard, New York,
and Princeton Universities and the Universities of California (Los Angeles)
and Michigan (Ann Arbor). Representative publications: Religious
Freedom and the Constitution (Harvard University Press, 2006) (with
Eisgruber); Justice in Plainclothes: A Theory of American Constitutional
Practice (Yale University Press, 2004); "The Many as One: Integrity and
Group Choice in Paradoxical Cases" (Philosophy & Public Affairs,
2004) (with Kornhauser).
Tara Smith (moral, political, and legal philosophy) is
Professor of Philosophy. Representative publications: Viable
Values (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); Moral Rights and Political
Freedom (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995); "Rights, Friends, and Egoism"
(Journal of Philosophy, 1993).
Jane Stapleton (philosophical foundations of private law) is
the Ernest E. Smith Professor of Law at Texas, Professor of Law in the
Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, and
Statutory Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University. She is a member of
the editorial board of the Torts Law Journal and former editor of
Oxford's Clarendon Law Series. Representative publications:
Disease and the Compensation Debate (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986);
"Legal Cause: Cause-in-Fact and the Scope of Liability for Consequences"
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2001); "Perspectives on Causation" (in
Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence, 4th Series, 2000); "Good Faith in
Private Law" (in Current Legal Problems, 1999).
Paul B. Woodruff (moral and political philosophy, ancient and
modern) is the Mary Helen Thompson Professor in the Humanities, and has been
Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.
Representative publications: First Democracy: The Challenge of an
Ancient Idea (Oxford University Press, 2005); Reverence: Renewing a
Forgotten Virtue (Oxford University Press, 2001); Early Greek
Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists (Cambridge University Press,
1995) (ed. with Gagarin); Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human
Nature (Hackett, 1994); "Rhetoric and Relativism" (in The Cambridge
Companion to Early Greek Philosophy, 1999).
