Curriculum Vitae

Balliol College, Oxford University
Visiting Academic, Michaelmas and Trinity terms, 1993

Yale Law School
J.D., May 1990

Columbia College, Columbia University
B.A., Philosophy, May 1987 

Teaching  

Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, 2008-

Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, 2005-2008

Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School, 2002-2003

Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 2001-2005

Associate Professor of Law, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, 1999-2001

Visiting Professor of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, Summer 1999

Visiting Professor of Law, Central European University, Summer 1998

Assistant Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1996-99

Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1993 95

Courses Taught 

Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Action, Criminal Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Elements of Law, Administrative Law, Theories of Rights, Constitutional Interpretation, Democratic Theory and Legal Interpretation, Legal Positivism, Communitarianism and Liberalism, Authority and Rationality

Books OXFORD HANDBOOK OF JURISPRUDENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, J. Coleman and S. Shapiro eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)(Chinese translation 2007)

Articles  

“What is the Rule of Recognition (and Does it Exist)?” in M. Adler and K. Himma, eds., THE RULE OF RECOGNITION AND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

“How Rules Affect Practical Reasoning,” in G. van Donsellar and B. Verbeek, eds., RATIONALITY AND INTENTIONS (Ashgate Publishing, 2008) (revised version of “The Difference That Rules Make”)

“The ‘Hart-Dworkin’ Debate: A Short Guide for the Perplexed,” RONALD DWORKIN, ed. A. Ripstein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

"Five Answers," in M.E.J. Nielson & I. Farrell, eds., LEGAL PHILOSOPHY: 5 QUESTIONS (New York: Automatic/VIP Press, 2007)

“What is the Internal Point of View?” 75 Fordham Law Review 1157 (2006)

“The Rationality of Rule-Guided Behavior: A Statement of the Problem,” 42 University of San Diego Law Rev. 55 (2005)

“Law, Plans and Practical Reason,” 8 Legal Theory 387 (2002)

“Ulysses Rebound,”16 Economics and Philosophy 157 (2002)

“Authority,” in J. Coleman and S. Shapiro, eds., OXFORD HANDBOOK OF JURISPRUDENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002).  Reprinted in J. Feinberg and J. Coleman, eds., THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW (7th Edition: Wadsworth Press, 2004).

Review of OBJECTIVITY IN LAW AND MORALS, 112 Ethics (2002)

“Judicial Can’t,” 35 Nous 530 (2001).  Reprinted in PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES XI (Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2001). 

“Hart, Herbert Lionel Aldophus,” A COMPANION TO ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY (Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2001).

“Law, Morality and the Guidance of Conduct,” 6 Legal Theory 127 (2000).  Reprinted in PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, B. Bix ed. (Ashgate Press, 2005)
 
"The Bad Man and the Internal Point of View,” THE PATH OF THE LAW AND ITS INFLUENCE: THE LEGACY OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., S. Burton ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

"On Hart's Way Out" 4 Legal Theory 454 (1999).  Reprinted in READINGS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, J. Coleman ed. (Garland Press, 2000), LAW AND MORALITY, K. Himma and B. Bix, ed. (Ashgate Press, 2005) and, with revisions, HART’S POSTSCRIPT, J. Coleman ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001). 

"The Difference That Rules Make," ANALYZING LAW: NEW ESSAYS IN LEGAL THEORY, B. Bix, ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). 

"Rule-Guided Behavior," THE NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF ECONOMICS AND THE LAW, P. Newman ed. (with E. McClennan) (1998)
 
"Law and Economics from a Philosophical Perspective,” THE NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF ECONOMICS AND THE LAW, P. Newman ed. (with E. McClennan) (1998)

"Fear of Theory," 64 University of Chicago Law Review 389-403 (1997)

"Maps Between Nonmonotonic and Conditional Logic," PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING 505 15 (1992)                  
(with H. Arlo Costa)

"Reviewing the Unreviewable Judge: Federal Prosecution Appeals of Mid trial Evidentiary Rulings," 99 Yale Law Journal 905 24 (1990)

Drafts   

LEGALITY (Book-length manuscript)

“Massively Shared Agency”
   
Presentations  

“The Making of a Legal System,” Seminar on the Nature of Law, USC Law School, December 2008

“The Planning Theory of Law,” Legal Philosophy Workshop, University of Girona, May 2008

“Is Inclusive Legal Positivism Founded on a Mistake?” Conference in Honor of Jules Coleman, University of Bologna, May 2008

“What is the Rule of Recognition (and Does it Exist)?” Conference on the Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution, University of Pennsylvania Law School, April 2008

“Interpretation and the Economy of Trust,” Constitutional Theory Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, October 2007
 
“How to do Things with Plans,” Legal Theory Workshop, Yale Law School, September 2007

"Shared Criminal Agency" and "The Hart-Dworkin Debate: Short Guide for the Perplexed," The Fresco Lectures, University of Genoa, May 2007
 
"What is Law (and Why Should We Care)?" Program on Human Rights, University of Palermo, May 2007

"Interpretation and the Economy of Trust," Workshop on Trust, Yale University, April 2007

"What is Law (and Why Should We Care)?" Legal Theory Workshop, Florida State University School of Law, March 2007

"Massively Shared Agency," Stanford University Philosophy Department, February 2007

“The Planning Theory of Law," Conference on Shared Agency, Columbia Law School, November 2007

"Legal Practice and Massively Shared Agency," Legal Theory Workshop, University of Toronto, September 2007

“Authority, Alienation and Shared Agency,” Philosophy Department   Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, April 2006

“What is Law (and Why Should We Care?),” Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy, Faculty of Law, Cambridge University, March 2006

“Massively Shared Agency,” Colloquium in Legal and Social Philosophy, University College, London, March 2006

“What is the Internal Point of View?” Conference on the Internal Point of View in Law and Morality, Fordham Law School, February 2006

“Massively Shared Agency,” Center for Law and Philosophy, Yale Law School, February 2006

“Law and Metaphysics,” American Association of Law Schools, Section on Jurisprudence, January 2006

“Interpretation and the Economy of Trust,” Legal Theory Workshop, UCLA Law School, November 2005

“The Hart-Dworkin Debate: A Short Guide For the Perplexed,” Legal Philosophy Colloquium, Columbia Law School, October 2005

“The Hart-Dworkin Debate: A Short Guide For the Perplexed,” Conference on the Philosophy of Ronald Dworkin, Princeton University, May 2005

“Interpretation and the Economy of Trust,” Center for Law, History and Culture, University of Southern California Law School, March 2005

“The Hart-Dworkin Debate: A Short Guide For the Perplexed,” University of Virginia Law School Legal Theory Workshop, March 2005

“Massively Shared Agency,” University of Michigan Law School Legal Theory Workshop, February 2004

“Interpretation and the Economy of Trust,” Legal Studies Workshop, Stanford Law School, February 2005

“Must Judges Follow the Letter of the Law?” Third Annual Lecture in Public Philosophy, St. Mary’s University, Halifax , November 2004

“Massively Shared Agency,” Dalhousie University Philosophy Workshop, November 2004

“The Hart-Dworkin Debate: A Short Guide For the Perplexed,” Cornell Law School Legal Theory Workshop, October 2004

“The Hart-Dworkin Debate: A Short Guide For the Perplexed,” Learning from Law’s Empire, Princeton University, September 2004

“The Rationality of Rule-Guided Behavior: A Statement of the Problem,” AALS Section on Jurisprudence, January 2004

“Authority and Shared Cooperative Activity,” Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, December 2003

“Interpretation and the Economy of Trust,” Yale Law School Faculty Workshop, February 2003

“Rules and Commitment,” Expert Seminar in Rationality and Intentions, Amsterdam, June 2002 

“Law, Plans and Practical Reason,” Legal Theory Workshop, University of Toronto, February 2002

“Law, Plans and Practical Reason,” Legal Theory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania Law School, November 2001

“Law, Plans and Practical Reason,” Conference on Law, Participation and Commitment, Yale Law School, October 2001

“Ulysses Rebound,” Conference on Deliberation and Reason, Bowling Green State University, May 2001

“On Hart’s Way Out,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Special Section on Gregory Kavka Prize, March 2001

“Authority,” American Association of Law Schools, Section on Jurisprudence, January 2001

“Authority,” Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum, Yale Law School, May 2000

“The Normativity of Instrumental Rules,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Section on Philosophy of Economics, December 1999

“Rules and the Rule of Law,” SOFIA Conference on Social Philosophy and the Philosophy of Law, Mazatlan Port, Mexico, December 1999

“Intentions and Reasons,” Expert Seminar in Rationality and Intentions, Amsterdam, October 1999    

“The Practical Difference Thesis,” Seminar in Legal Philosophy, Yale Law School, April 1999

“Paradoxes of Authority,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, The New School for Social Research, April 1999

“Homelessness and Economic Efficiency,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Section on Philosophy of Law, March 1999

“On Hart’s Way Out,” Legal Theory Workshop, Boalt Hall, October 1998

"Rules and Positivism," 3rd Annual Annual Legal Philosophy Conference, San Diego, April 1998

“The Difference That Rules Make,” Seminar in Legal Philosophy, Columbia University, April 1997

“Why Sequential Solutions Will Not Resolve the Two Envelope Paradox," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Section on Decision Theory, December 1996

"Mill and Liberal Theory" Columbia University, Contemporary Civilization Colloquium, February 1995             
                    
 "Rule Following and Rule Worship" Wolfson Philosophical Society, Wolfson College, Oxford University, March 1993

"Maps Between Nonmonotonic and Conditional Logic" 3rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, October 1992

"Presumptive Reasoning" University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, February 1992
            
Legal Employment Volunteer Attorney, Center for Battered Women's Legal Services, June 1995, 1997

Summer Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton, Summers 1989, 1990

Clerk, The Honorable Pierre N. Leval, Federal District Court, Southern District of New York, Summer 1985

Honors            

Gregory Kavka award for best published article in political philosophy for the two-year period 1998-1999 (“On Hart’s Way Out”), American Philosophical Association

Best paper in jurisprudence (“Authority”), Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum

Jonathan Lieberson Memorial Award for best essay in moral philosophy (“Authority and Coordination”), Columbia University

Yale Law Journal, Senior Editor
               
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

Fellowships          

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 2003-04

Peter Wall Visiting Junior Scholar in Residence, University of British Columbia, August 2000 (declined).

National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Grant, 1994 95
                
Columbia University President's Fellow, 1993 94
     
Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow, 1991 93
               
Mellon Foundation grant for language study, Summers 1991,1992
                    
Graduate Faculty Alumni Scholar, 1990 91

Appointments Editor, Legal Theory, 2009-

Chair, Jurisprudence Section, AALS, 2009-10

Matrimonial Law Panel, Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Member of Subcommittee on Same-Sex Marriage, 1998-2001

Referee, Book Referee: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Article Referee: Legal Theory, Ethics, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Review, Review of Symbolic Logic

Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum Paper Referee