Professor Brian Leiter has been appointed Co-Editor of the quarterly journal Legal Theory, replacing Frederick Schauer, the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard. The other editors are Larry Alexander, Warren Distinguished Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law and Jules L. Coleman, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School.
Published by Cambridge University Press, Legal Theory is an international journal of interdisciplinary legal scholarship, with a particular focus on law and philosophy and law and the social sciences. Contributors to the journal in recent years have included the philosophers Frances Myrna Kamm, Hilary Putnam, and Joseph Raz; social scientists Jon Elster, Daniel Kahneman and Douglass North; and legal scholars William Eskridge, Jr., Steven Shavell, and Richard A. Posner. Professor Leiter has been a member of the journal's editorial board since its inception in 1995, and began his term as Editor with the March 2000 issue.
Leiter is the Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor in the Law School, a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, and Director of the Law & Philosophy Program at UT. He has published more than three dozen articles in law and philosophy in such journals as Ethics, Yale Law Journal, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Columbia Law Review, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is also editor of the book Objectivity in Law and Morals (Cambridge University Press, 2001). He joined the UT faculty in 1995, and was a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School during 1998-99.