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Email: sperry@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Torts
- Legal Philosophy
- Political Philosophy
Bio
Stephen Perry is a prominent legal philosopher and legal theorist.
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Stephen Perry is a prominent legal philosopher and legal theorist. Before taking up his current position at Penn, he was the Fiorello La Guardia Professor of Law at NYU Law School, and before that he taught at McGill University.
Perry has published numerous well regarded articles on jurisprudence, political philosophy, and theoretical aspects of the law of torts. He is particularly interested in the methodology of jurisprudence, the general nature of authority and obligation in law, the role of corrective justice in tort law, the morality of risk imposition, and the relationship between legal and moral responsibility.
Perry is a sought-after lecturer and panelist. He has presented papers in many different venues, including the Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy at NYU Law School, the Colloquium on Legal and Political Philosophy at University College London, and the Stanford Research Group on the Nature and Limits of Moral Responsibility. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, and in 2008, he presented a plenary address at the Fourth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations in Singapore. In 2009 he presented his paper “Political Authority and Political Obligation” to the Annual Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference held at King’s College, London.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy (2005- ); Co-Director, Institute for Law and Philosophy (2009- ); John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy (1997-2003); Professor (1996-97); Visiting (1995-96)
NYU Law School – Fiorello La Guardia Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy (2003–05)
Visiting Professor - NYU Law School (1999-2000), University of San Diego Law School (1994)
Member of Advisory Board of Legal Theory (1998- ); Member of the American Law Institute (1998- )
McGill University - Associate Professor (1991-96); Assistant Professor (1987-91); Visiting Professor (1985-87); Boulton Fellow (1984-85)
Law Clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson, Supreme Court of Canada (1983-84)
Representative Publications
Where Have All the Powers Gone? Hartian Rules of Recognition, Noncognitivism, and the Constitutional and Jurisprudential Foundations of Law, in THE RULE OF RECOGNITION AND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION (Matthew D. Adler & Kenneth Einar Himma eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2009).
Beyond the Distinction between Positivism and Non-Positivism, 22 RATIO JURIS 311 (2009).
Risk, Harm, Interests, and Rights, in RISK: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES 190 (Tim Lewens ed., Routledge 2007).
Two Problems of Political Authority, 6 AM. PHIL. ASS’N NEWSL. ON L. & PHIL. 31 (2007).
Hart on Social Rules and the Foundations of Law: Liberating the Internal Point of View, 75 FORDHAM L. REV. 1171 (2006).
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Associative Obligations and the Obligation to Obey the Law, in EXPLORING LAW’S EMPIRE: THE JURISPRUDENCE OF RONALD DWORKIN 183 (Scott Hershovitz ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2006).
Law and Obligation, 50 AMER. J. JURISP. 263 (2005).
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Ripstein, Rawls and Responsibility, 72 FORDHAM L. REV. 1845 (2004).
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Harm, History, and Counterfactuals, 40 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1283 (2003).
Method and Principle in Legal Theory, 111 YALE L.J. 1757 (2002).
Responsibility for Outcomes, Risk, and the Law of Torts, in PHILOSOPHY AND THE LAW OF TORTS 72 (Gerald Postema ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2001).
Hart’s Methodological Positivism, in HART’S POSTSCRIPT 311 (Jules Coleman ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2001).
Honoré on Responsibility for Outcomes, in RELATING TO RESPONSIBILITY: NEW ESSAYS FOR TONY HONORÉ 61 (John Gardner & Peter Cane eds., Hart Publishing 2001).
Holmes v. Hart: The Bad Man in Legal Theory, in “THE PATH OF THE LAW” AND ITS INFLUENCE 158 (Steven Burton ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2000).
On the Relationship between Corrective and Distributive Justice, in OXFORD ESSAYS IN JURISPRUDENCE, 237 (Jeremy Horder ed., 4th series, Oxford Univ. Press 2000).
Libertarianism, Entitlement, and Responsibility, 26 PHIL. & PUB. AFFAIRS 351 (1997).
Two Models of Legal Principles, 82 IOWA L. REV. 787 (1997).
Tort Law, in COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY, 57 (Dennis Patterson ed., Blackwell Publishers 1996).
The Varieties of Legal Positivism, 9 CANADIAN J. L. & JURISPRUDENCE 361 (1996).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
Political Authority and Political Obligation (forthcoming)
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