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Stephen Perry is a prominent legal philosopher and legal theorist.
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Stephen Perry is a prominent legal philosopher and legal theorist. He 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 he delivered the first annual Leon Green Lecture in Jurisprudence at the University of Texas Law School. This coming year, he will deliver, among many other presentations and workshops, a plenary address at the Fourth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, which is to be held in Singapore in July 2008.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy (2005 -); John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy (1997-2003); Professor (1996-97); Joint appointment with Philosophy Department (1997-2003), (2005 -); 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 (1987-91); Visiting (1985-87); Boulton Fellow (1984-85)
Law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson, Supreme Court of Canada (1983-84)
Representative Publications
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).
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).
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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