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Law and Philosophy

Professional Experience

Professor: New York University; Current

Education

University of Otago, New Zealand: Honorary Doctorate of Laws; 2005

Catholic University of Brussels: Honorary Doctorate of Laws; 2003

Oxford University: D.Phil. | (Faculty of Law; 1986

University of Oxford: M.A. | Ex officio; 1980

University of Otago: LL.B.; 1978; Honors: Hons., First Class

: Admitted as Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand; 1978

University of Otago: B.A. | Philosophy; 1974; Honors: Hons., First Class

Awards

Lon L. Fuller Prize in Jurisprudence 1987: Institute for Humane Studies; 1987; for 'When Justice Replaces Affection: The Need for Rights'

Winner, Philosophical Quarterly Annual Essay Competition: 1986; for an article on the subject 'Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism

Professional Associations

Chicago-Kent Law School: 2004 Centennial Scholar; Current

Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina: Sheps Distinguished Visitor; Current

National Coalition for the Homeless Summit, Washington DC: Speaker; Current

Union College, Schenectady, NY: Spenser-Leavitt Visiting Professor; Current

Cambridge University Press: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

Cornell University Press: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

Harvard University Press: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

Oxford University Press: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

Princeton University Press: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

University of Chicago Press: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

University of California Press: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

Ethics: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

American Political Science Review: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

Political Theory: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

Philosophy and Public Affairs: Regular reader of book manuscripts; Current

Editorial Board of Ratio Juris: Member; 2005 - Current

Editorial Board of Legal Theory: 2004 - Current

Columbia Human Rights Law Review: Member of Board of Advisors; 2001 - Current

Division II: Foundations of Political Theory - American Political Science Association Annual Meetings: Division Chair; 1998 - Current

Organizing Committee for annual conference on Analytic Legal Philosophy: Founding member; 1996 - Current

Working Group on multi-cultural education, sponsored by the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland: Member; 1991 - Current

The Journal of Political Philosophy: Associate Editor; 1990 - Current

Editorial Board of Ethics: 1989 - Current

Editorial Board of Legal Theory: 1994 - 2002

Center for Human Values, Princeton University: Visiting Senior Research Scholar; 1997 - 1999

Continuing Judicial Studies Program, Center for Judicial Education and Research, State of California: Faculty Member; 1988 - 1990

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Speaking Engagements

The Nature of the Judicial Function, South Seas Resort, Captiva, Florida: December 2, 2008; Judicial Studies Institute (federal and state appellate judges)

The Supersession Thesis: the Process and Legacy of Settlement: June 1, 2008; Minerva Center for Human Rights, Tel Aviv University; conference on Paper for conference on Israeli Settlements & Related Cases

Normative Positivism: February 2, 2008; Arizona State University; Conference on Legal Philosophy

Positivism and Legality: Hart s Equivocal Response to Fuller, 50th Anniversary of the Hart/Fuller Debate: February 1, 2008

Community and Property for those who have neither: January 1, 2008; Tel Aviv Law School; Conference on Community and Property

The War on Terrorism and the Image of God, Center for the Study of Law & Religion s Silver Anniversary Conference: October 1, 2007; Emory University School of Law

Partly Laws Common to All Mankind, The 2007 Storrs Lectures: September 1, 2007; three lectures

Hart and the Principles of Legality: July 1, 2007; Cambridge University; Conference on the Legacy of H.L.A. Hart

Philosophical Perspectives on Law, Democracy, and Human Rights, NEH Summer Seminar: July 1, 2007; Georgia State University

The Dignity of Groups, the Ben Beinart Memorial Lecture, South Africa: July 1, 2007; University of Cape Town Law School

Do Judges Reason Morally?: April 1, 2007; University of Texas Law School; Faculty Workshop

Dignity and Rank, Washington DC: March 1, 2007; Ralph McInerny Center for Thomistic Studies; conference on The Philosophical Foundations of Human Dignity,

Safety and Security, Columbus: March 1, 2007; Ohio State University; Law/Political Theory Workshop

What Can Christian Argument Add to the Debate about Torture, Annual Law, Culture and Religion Lecture, Washington DC: March 1, 2007; Catholic University

Lucky in Your Judge, Israel: January 1, 2007; Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University; Conference on Legal and Moral Luck

Safety and Security, Institute for Legal Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School: December 1, 2006

Do Judges Reason Morally?: October 1, 2006; University of Western Ontario; Conference on Interpreting the Constitution,

Law, Culture and Basic Equality, The Joshua Greenberg Memorial Lecture: October 1, 2006; Department of Politics, Brandeis University

Raz on Culture and Autonomy: October 1, 2006; Princeton University; Conference on the Twentieth Anniversary of Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom

Arendt on the Foundations of Equality: September 1, 2006; Yale University; Conference: Crises of our Republics: Hannah Arendt at One Hundred

Basic Equality, Law/Philosophy Colloquium, Los Angeles: September 1, 2006; University of Southern California; on Equality

Conquest and Circumstances, The Julius Stone Lecture: August 1, 2006; University of Sydney

Mill and the Contagious Diseases Acts, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia: August 1, 2006

The Rule against Torture as a Legal Archetype, The Jonathan Charney Lecture in International Law: February 1, 2006; Vanderbilt Law School

Compliance with Norms against Torture, International Law Association meetings: October 1, 2005; New York Bar Association

Public Reason, Courts, and Official Justification: October 1, 2005; Center for Ethics, University of Toronto

Safety, Security, and Public Goods with Structure: October 1, 2005; University of Arizona, Law School

Why is Indigeneity Important?, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.: September 1, 2005; panel on Politicizing Indigeneity American Political Science Association

Compared to What? Judicial Activism and the New Zealand Parliament, Public Law Lecture, New Zealand: August 1, 2005; Victoria University of Wellington

Equality and Cultural Diversity, plenary conference, Rotorua: August 1, 2005; conference of the New Zealand judiciary on Equality and Diversity

The Half-Life of Treaties: Waitangi, Rebus Sic Stantibus, The Annual F.W. Guest Memorial Lecture, New Zealand: August 1, 2005; University of Otago

Is Torture ever Acceptable?: April 1, 2005; Public Debate with John Yoo

The Core of the Case Against Judicial Review, London: March 1, 2005; University College; Legal Theory Workshop

Arendt s Constitutional Politics, Annual Meeting, San Francisco: January 1, 2005; Association of American Law Schools

Dead to the Law Paul s Antinomiansm: October 1, 2004; Cardozo Law School; conference on Text and Tradition

Torture and Positive Law Jurisprudence for the White House: October 1, 2004; Chicago-Kent Law School

Status and Equality, American Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago: September 1, 2004

Torture and Positive Law Jurisprudence for the White House, Law School, New Zealand,: August 1, 2004; Victoria University of Wellington

Adjudication and Personal Values: June 1, 2004; Conference of the Connecticut Judiciary

Can There Be a Democratic Jurisprudence?, Ninth Annual Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference: April 1, 2004

The Supersession Thesis: the Process and Legacy of Settlement: February 1, 2004; UCLA Law School; Legal Theory Workshop

Can There Be a Democratic Jurisprudence?, The Wesson Lectures: January 1, 2004; Stanford University; two lectures

Liberty and Security: Security as Public Good, Annual Political Thought Conference: January 1, 2004; St. Catherine s College, Oxford

Toleration, Atlanta: January 1, 2004; Annual meetings of the American Society for Legal, Political and Social Philosophy, in conjunction with the annual meetings of the American Association of Law Schools

Popular Sovereignty and Judicial Supremacy, Seattle: November 1, 2003; Department of Philosophy, University of Washington

Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: October 1, 2003; to celebrate Columbia University s 250th anniversary

The Primacy of Justice, Chapel Hill: October 1, 2003; Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina

Who is my Neighbor, Chapel Hill: October 1, 2003; School of Law, University of North Carolina

Nozick and Locke Filling the Space of Rights, Ohio: September 1, 2003; Bowling Green; conference on Robert Nozick s work at Bowling Green State University

Some Models of Dialogue Between Judges and Legislators, London Ontario: September 1, 2003; University of Western Ontario; conference on Constitutionalism in the Charter Era: an International Conference on Rights, Judicial Review, and Public Policy,

Moral Disagreements about Just and Unjust Wars, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia: August 1, 2003

The New Testament in Locke s Political Thought, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia: August 1, 2003

The Primacy of Justice, Annual John Passmore Lecture, Canberra: July 1, 2003; Australian National University; Lecture in Philosophy

Constitutional Democracy or Constitutional Democracy: May 1, 2003; Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; conference on Accountability and Representation in European Democracy

Security and Liberty: The Image of Balance, Atlanta: April 1, 2003; Georgia State University; Conference on Terrorism and Justice

Judicial Supremacy and Popular Sovereignty, The Robert Stevens Lecture, Ithaca: February 1, 2003; Cornell Law School

Terrorism, Terror and Coercion: The Uses of a Psychological State, Tucson: February 1, 2003; University of Arizona; Conference on Moral Aspects of Terrorism

Popular Sovereignty and Judicial Supremacy: April 1, 2002; University of Chicago; Constitutional Theory Workshop

Large Assemblies and the Basis of Representation, Portugal: February 1, 2002; Mario Soares Foundation, Lisbon

Locke on Equality: February 1, 2002; Harvard Political Theory Workshop

Is the Rule of Law an Essentially Contested Concept (in Florida)?: November 1, 2001; Yale Political Theory Workshop

The Philosophical Foundations of Rights, Public Lecture: November 1, 2001; University of Connecticut

Kant s heading Cosmopolitan Right,, Kingston, Ontario: September 1, 2001; Queen s University; Workshop on Cosmopolitanism

The Logic of Cultural Accommodation, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco: August 1, 2001

Repairing Historical Injustice, Germany: July 1, 2001; Einstein Forum, Potsdam; conference on Historische Gerechtigkeit

Public Reason and Official Justification, symposium on The Idea of Public Reason, Washington, D.C.: May 1, 2001; Columbus Law School, Catholic University of America

Basic Equality, Faculty Colloquium: April 1, 2001; University of Texas Law School

Actions and Accommodations, The Kadish Lecture: February 1, 2001; University of California Berkeley

Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism, Florence: January 1, 2001; EUI; conference on Cosmopolitan Law

Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism: December 1, 2000; London School of Economics; conference on Cosmopolitan Law

Judicial Supremacy and Popular Sovereignty, James Madison Lecture: December 1, 2000; Princeton University

Locke, God and Equality: November 1, 2000; History department workshop at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Does Law Promise Justice?, The Miller Lecture: October 1, 2000; Georgia State University College of Law

Repairing Historical Injustice: October 1, 2000; Colloquium on Liberal Democracy and Tribal Peoples: Group Rights in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Judicial Ethics and the Rule of Law, plenary conference, Rotorua: September 1, 2000; conference of the New Zealand judiciary on Judicial Standards: Contemporary Constraints

Dworkin and Posner: The Strange Case of Law v. Philosophy, Legal Research Foundation Annual Lecture, Auckland: August 1, 2000

The Majority Principle: August 1, 2000; Baldy Center, SUNY Buffalo; Conference on First Principles of Collective Decision Making in Public Policy Contexts

Does Law Promise Justice?: June 1, 2000; University College London; Seminar in Law, Politics and Society, Faculty of Laws

Basic Equality, Sir Malcolm Knox Memorial Lecture, Scotland: May 1, 2000; University of St. Andrews

Locke, God and Equality, The Spring University Lecture: April 1, 2000; Columbia University

Tolerance and Reasonableness, The Austin Lecture, Exeter: April 1, 2000; UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy

Homelessness and Community, The Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture: February 1, 2000; University of Toronto Law School

Legislation by Assembly, The Brendan Brown lecture: January 1, 2000; Loyola University of New Orleans Law School

Normative Positivism, Eastern Division Meetings, Boston: December 1, 1999; invited paper at American Philosophical Association

Basic Equality, Florence: November 1, 1999; European University Institute; presented to the Legal Theory Workshop

Cosmopolitan Citizenship, Netherlands: November 1, 1999; School of Law, Tilburg University (Catholic University of Brabant)

Arendt s Constitutionalism - The case of Julius Caesar, The Hannah Arendt Lecture, England: October 1, 1999; University of Southampton

Kant s Heading - Cosmopolitan Right: October 1, 1999; Political Theory Workshop, Cambridge University

Self Defense - Agent-Neutral and Agent-Relative Accounts, Berkeley: October 1, 1999; Conference Honoring Sanford Kadish

Two Essays on Basic Equality: September 1, 1999; New York University; Colloquium on Law, Philosophy and Political Theory

Mill as a Critic of Culture, Annual Meetings, Atlanta: August 1, 1999; American Political Science Association

Taking Group Rights Carefully, Auckland: August 1, 1999; Conference on The Future of the New Zealand Constitution

Authority for Officials, Bielefeld, Germany: July 1, 1999; Colloquium on the Work of Joseph Raz, held at ZiF

Piecemeal Positivism: June 1, 1999; Plenary Session of the 19th World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

Hayek on Freedom, Freedom Project Conference (John Templeton Fund),, Newport RI: May 1, 1999; Salve Regina University,

Author Meets Critics: Waldron s Law and Disagreement,, Annual Meetings, Berkeley: April 1, 1999; American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)

Banking Constitutional Rights Who Controls Withdrawals?, The Hartman Hotz Lecture, Fayetteville: April 1, 1999; School of Law, University of Arkansas

Legislation by Assembly, SOFIA Conference: April 1, 1999; Political Science Workshop, Rochester University; Conference in Law and Philosophy, Mazatlan, Mexico, December 1999

The Physics of Consent, Public Lecture, Houston: October 1, 1998; Rice University; Lecture in Ethics, Politics and Society

Kant on the Need for Positive Law, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Boston: September 1, 1998

Identity Politics and Civic Responsibility, Public Lecture: July 1, 1998; Otago University

Legislation by Assembly, Canberra: July 1, 1998; Australian National University; conference on Judicial Activism and Ethical Positivism

Rights, Constitutionalism, and Judicial Review: Some Doubts About the American Contribution, Annual Meeting, Dunedin: July 1, 1998; Plenary Address to Australasian Law Teachers Association

The Normative Resilience of Property: July 1, 1998; conference on Property and the Constitution

Homelessness, Community and Denial, Atlanta: May 1, 1998; Georgia State University; Conference on Homelessness

The Normative Resilience of Property, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles: March 1, 1998; American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division); an invited Lecture

Civic Responsibility and Identity Politics, Toronto: October 1, 1997; conference on Citizenship in a Multi-Cultural Society

Participation, St. Louis: October 1, 1997; Philosophy Department, Washington University

Natural Duty Revisited: September 1, 1997; Philosophy Department, New York University

The Constitutional Conception of Democracy, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Washington D.C: August 1, 1997

The Dignity of Legislation: April 1, 1997; Faculty Workshop, Harvard Law School

Civic Responsibility and Identity Politics: March 1, 1997; Theory Workshop, University of Virginia; conference on Citizenship in a Multi-Cultural Society

Law and Disagreement: February 1, 1997; Legal Theory Workshop, Yale Law School

Truth, Publicity and Civill Doctrine, Public Lecture: December 1, 1996; Kennedy School, Harvard University

Precommitment and Disagreement: November 1, 1996; New York University Law School; Colloquium in Law, Philosophy and Political Theory

Legislation, Authority and Voting, the Harry Lyman Hooker Lecture, Hamilton, Ontario: October 1, 1996; McMaster University

Supply without Burthern Revisited, the Shirley Webster Lecture: October 1, 1996; Iowa College of Law

Property Rights from Magna Carta to the Twenty-First Century, San Francisco-Wellington: July 1, 1996; Address to New Zealand Federated Farmers, by satellite

What is Cosmopolitan?, the Spring 1996 James Moffitt Lecture: March 1, 1996; Center for Human Values, Princeton University; Lecture on Ethics

The Dignity of Legislation, Seeley Lectures, England: February 1, 1996; Cambridge University; the second series of Seeley Lectures (Four lectures)

Voting and the Dignity of Legislation, the Donald Brown Memorial Lecture: October 1, 1995; University of Vermont

The Role of Rights in Practical Reasoning, Buenos Aires: May 1, 1995; Universidad Torcuato di Tella

The Dignity of Legislation, the Lawrence and Pearl Gerber Memorial Lecture: October 1, 1994; University of Maryland Law School

Above the Bottom Line, public lecture, Canberra: December 1, 1992; Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University

The Dignity of Legislation, public lecture, Canberra: December 1, 1992; Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University

When the Players Disagree about the Trumps, public lecture, Canberra: December 1, 1992; Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University

Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism: Watson Institute, Brown University; conference on Cosmopolitan Law

Alternatives to Nationalism: Proximity and Conflict as the Basis of a State, The Daniel Jacobson Lecture: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Christian Equality in the Political Thought of John Locke, The Carlyle Lectures: University of Oxford; Six Lectures

Indigeneity - First Peoples and Last Occupancy, Quentin-Baxter Memorial Lecture, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington, Law School

Is the Rule of Law an Essentially Contested Concept (in Florida), John Dewey Lecture

Legislating with Integrity, The McDonald Lecture, Edmonton: University of Alberta Law School; Lecture in Constitutional Studies

Locke, God and Equality: Theory colloquium, University of Chicago,

One Law for All? - The Logic of Cultural Accommodation, John Randolph Tucker Lecture: Washington and Lee Law School

Poverty and Freedom, the 1994 De Carle Lectures, New Zealand: University of Otago; Four lectures

Retroactive Law - How Dodgy was Duynhoven?, Public lecture, Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington, Law School,

Safety, Security, and Public Goods with Structure: Harvard Law School,

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