Scott J. Shapiro

Scott Shapiro is Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale Law School. Before his appointment at Yale, Professor Shapiro was Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan and Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. His areas of interest include jurisprudence, family law, constitutional law, criminal law, constitutional theory, philosophy of action, and authority and rationality. He is the editor (with Jules Coleman) of The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law that was recently translated to Chinese in 2007. Professor Shapiro is a graduate of Columbia University and Yale Law School where he was Senior Editor of The Yale Law Journal.

Education
Ph.D., Columbia, 1996
J.D., Yale, 1990
B.A., Columbia, 1987

Course Taught
Criminal Law and Administration