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Tel: 215.898.5798
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: cfinkels@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Criminal Law
- Contracts
- Legal Philosophy
- Moral and Political Philosophy
- Rational Choice Theory
- Jurisprudence
- Law of War
Bio
Claire Finkelstein writes at the intersection of philosophy and law.
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Claire Finkelstein writes at the intersection of philosophy and law. She has published extensively in the areas of criminal law theory, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, and rational choice theory, and has recently begun writing on the law of war and war crimes. One of her distinctive contributions is bringing philosophical rational choice theory to bear on legal theory, and she is particularly interested in tracing the implications of Hobbes’ political theory for substantive legal questions. She has held fellowships at the American Academy in Berlin, the Princeton Institute for Human Values, and the Social and Political Theory Group at the Australian National University. She is currently finishing a book entitled Contractarian Legal Theory, and she is the editor, (with Jens Ohlin and Andrew Altman), of an edited volume entitled Targeted Killings: Law & Mortality in an Asymmetrical World (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012), and of Hobbes on Law (Ashgate, 2005). She is also a Co-Director of Penn’s Institute for Law and Philosophy.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy (2009- ); Professor of Law and Philosophy (2001-09); Co-Director, Institute for Law and Philosophy (2009- ); Visiting Faculty (2000-01)
University of California, Berkeley - Professor of Law (1999-2000); Acting Professor of Law (1995-99)
Visits and Fellowships - Siemens Fellow, American Academy in Berlin (2008); Harsanyi Fellow, Center for Social and Political Philosophy, Research School for the Social Sciences, Australian National University (2000); Princeton Center for Human Values, Princeton University (1998-99)
American Academy in Berlin, Siemens Fellow (Spring 2008)
Representative Publications
CONTRACTARIAN LEGAL THEORY (book manuscript available upon request). (forthcoming)
TARGETED KILLINGS: LAW AND MORALITY IN AN ASYMMETRICAL WORLD, eds. Claire Finkelstein, Jens Ohlin, Andrew Altman, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (2012).
Hobbesian Legal Reasoning and the Problem of Wicked Laws, in HOBBES TODAY (Sharon Lloyd, ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011). (forthcoming 2011)
Responsibility for Acts of War and the Equal Morality of Soldiers, 10 J. INT’L CRIM. JUST. __ (forthcoming 2011)
Punishment as Contract, 8 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 319 (Special Issue on Criminal Law and Political Philosophy, guest ed. Mary Siegler, 2011).
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Vindicating the Rule of Law: Prosecuting Free Riders on Human Rights, in WHEN GOVERNMENTS BREAK THE LAW: THE RULE OF LAW AND THE PROSECUTION OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION (Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussein, eds. 2010).
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Should Bush Administration Lawyers Be Prosectured for Authorizing Torture, 158 U. PA. L. REV. PENNumbra 195 (2010) (with Michael W. Lewis).
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Contrived Defenses and Deterrent Threats: Two Facets of One Problem (co-authored with Leo Katz), 5 OHIO. J. CRIM. L. 479 (2008).
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Acting on an Intention, in REASON, INTENTION AND MORALITY (Gijs Van Donselaar & Bruno Verbeek eds., Ashgate Publishing, 2008).
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A Contractarian Argument Against the Death Penalty, 81 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1283 (2006).
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Hobbes and the Internal Point of View, 75 FORDHAM L. REV. 1211 (2006).
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Report for British Law Commission on American Murder Law, Completed September, 2005 (available upon request), published in British Law Commission CP177 (December 20, 2005).
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Two Models of Murder: Patterns of Criminalization in the United States, in HOMICIDE LAW IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (Jeremy Horder and David Hughes, eds. 2007).
Merger and Felony Murder, in DEFINING CRIMES: ESSAYS ON THE CRIMINAL LAW’S “SPECIAL PORT” (Antony Duff & Stuart Green eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2005).
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HOBBES ON LAW, editor of volume for Ashgate Publishing (2005).
Responsibility for Unintended Consequences, 2 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 579 (2005).
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A Contractarian Approach to Punishment, BLACKWELL SERIES ON PHILOSOPHY OF LAW (Martin Golding & William Edmundson eds., 2004).
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Legal Theory and the Rational Actor, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF RATIONALITY (Al Mele ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 2003).
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Is Risk a Harm?, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 963 (2003).
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Involuntary Crimes, Voluntarily Committed, in CRIMINAL LAW THEORY: DOCTORINES OF THE GENERAL PART (Stephen Shute & A.P. Simester eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2002).
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A Puzzle About Hobbes on Self-Defense, 82 PACIFIC PHIL. Q. 332 (2001).
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Rational Temptation, in PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND PREFERENCE: ESSAYS FOR DAVID GAUTHIER (Christopher W. Morris & Arthur Ripstein eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2001).
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The Inefficiency of Mens Rea, 88 CAL. L. REV. 895 (2000).
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When the Rule Swallows the Exception, in RULES AND REASONING: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF FREDERICK SCHAUER (Hart Publishing Company 1999), reprinted in 19 QUINNIPIAC L. REV. 505 (2000).
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Positivism and the Notion of an Offense, 88 CAL. L. REV. 335 (2000).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
Contract Under Coercion: Should You Keep a Contract with a Robber? (manuscript available upon request). (forthcoming)
Responsibility and the Doctrine of Double Effect (forthcoming)
Pragmatic Rationality and Risk (Symposium in Honor of David Gauthier on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Morals by Agreement), __ ETHICS __ (forthcoming 2012). (forthcoming 2012)
Constrained Maximization and Risk, (included in symposium on work of David Gauthier, submitted to ETHICS). (forthcoming)
On Doing Something Unintended, Intentionally. (forthcoming)
Rational Contractarianism and International Law, in HOBBES AND THE LAW (David Dyzenhaus and Tom Poole, eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012). (forthcoming 2012)
Targeted Killing as Preemptive Action, in TARGETED KILLINGS: LAW AND MORALITY IN AN ASYMMETRICAL WORLD, (Andrew Altman, Claire Finkelstein & Jens Ohlin, eds., Oxford University Press). (forthcoming 2012)
Contractarianism, in ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (Fred D’Agostino and Gerry Gaus, eds.). (forthcoming 2012)
Hobbes on Contract (forthcoming)
Representative Professional Activities
Law and Philosophy, Advisory Board
AALS Section on Jurisprudence, Chair 2002-03
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