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Tel: 215.898.9135
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: wewald@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Comparative Law
- International Law
- Legal History
- Philosophy of Law
Bio
William Ewald, who came to Penn from the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford, is an internationally recognized scholar in legal philosophy and comparative law.
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William Ewald, who came to Penn from the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford, is an internationally recognized scholar in legal philosophy and comparative law. His principal areas of legal research are European law, comparative legal philosophy, and public international law. At Penn, Ewald regularly teaches comparative law and courses on European legal theory, as well as a course on the Foundations of the American Legal System, which introduces American law to the overseas LL.M. students. He is the author of an often-cited article in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review on the philosophical foundations of comparative law, "What Was it Like to Try a Rat?" and is presently at work on a book examining, from a comparative perspective, the distinctive character of American law; this work has recently led him to write on the legal philosophy of James Wilson, the first professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, and on Wilson's role at the Constitutional Convention. He is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Comparative Law and of the British Journal of Comparative Law. He also works in the philosophy of mathematics and is the editor of a standard source-book in philosophy of mathematics ( From Kant to Hilbert, Oxford, 1996), and is a co-editor of David Hilbert on the Foundations of Mathematics and Natural Science (in six volumes, of which two have so far appeared.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Professor of Law (1991 -)
The Queen's College, Oxford - Junior Research Fellow (1982-85, 87-88)
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Gottingen (1985-87)
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton - Member (1988-89); Visitor (1997)
Istituto Universitario Europeo, Florence - Jean Monnet Fellow (1989-90)
Harvard College - Teaching Fellow (1979-82)
Representative Publications
James Wilson at the Constitutional Convention, U. PA. J. CONST. L. (forthcoming 2007-8).
THE STYLE OF AMERICAN LAW (forthcoming).
FROM KANT TO HILBERT: A SOURCE BOOK IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS (2 vol., Oxford University Press 1996).
Comparative Jurisprudence: What Was it Like to Try a Rat?, 1995 U. PA. L. REV. 1889.
Unger' s Philosophy: A Critical Legal Study, 1988 YALE L.J. 665.
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