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Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: cfinkels@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Contracts
- Criminal Law
- Legal Philosophy
- Moral and Political Philosophy
- Rational Choice Theory
Bio
Claire Finkelstein is one of the country’s leading scholars writing at the intersection of philosophy and law.
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Claire Finkelstein is one of the country’s leading scholars writing 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. 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. In 2008 Finkelstein was a Siemens Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, during which time she presented papers in Berlin, Leipzig and Heidelberg. She is currently working on her book, Hobbesian Legal Theory, and is the editor of Hobbes on Law (Ashgate, 2005).
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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 - American Academy in Berlin (2008); Harsanyi Fellow, Center for Social and Political Philosophy, Research School for the Social Sciences, Australian National U. (2000); Princeton Center for Human Values, Princeton (1998-99)
American Academy in Berlin, Siemens Fellow (Spring 2008)
Representative Publications
HOBBES’ LEGAL THEORY (work-in-progress).
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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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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Excuses and Dispositions in Criminal Law, 6 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 317 (2002).
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Death and Retribution, CRIM. JUST. ETHICS (2002).
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Crime: Definition, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND JUSTICE (Macmillan Reference Series 2002).
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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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Two Men on a Plank, 7 LEGAL THEORY 279 (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 QUINN. 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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Threats and Pre-emptive Practices, 5 LEGAL THEORY 311 (1999).
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On the Obligation of the State to Extend a Right of Self-Defense to its Citizens, 147 U. PA. L. REV. 1361 (1999).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
Contracts Under Coercion: Should You Keep a Contract with a Robber?
Hobbesian Legal Reasoning
Constrained Maximization and Risk
Punishment as Contract
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