Mitchell Berman
Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy

Mitchell Berman teaches and writes in diverse areas of legal theory, specializing in criminal law, constitutional law, and a new domain of scholarly inquiry he has dubbed "the jurisprudence of sport".
Articles and Book Chapters
Sport as a Thick Cluster Concept, in GAMES, SPORTS, AND PLAY: PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS (Thomas Hurka ed., Oxford 2019).
Kennedy's Legacy: A Principled Justice, 46 HASTINGS CONST. L.Q. 311 (2018-2019) (with David Peters).
Our Principled Constitution. 166 U. PA. L. REV. 1325 (2018).
The Tragedy of Justice Scalia, 115 MICH. L. REV. 783 (2017).
Judge Posner's Simple Law. 113 MICH. L. REV. 777 (2015).
Some Skepticism About Skepticism: A Comment on Katz, 163 U. PA. L. REV. ONLINE 345 (2015)
Sprints, Sports, and Suits, 40 J. PHIL. SPORT 163 (2013).
Rehabilitating Retributivism, 32 LAW & PHIL. 83 (2013).
Introduction: Punishment and Culpability, 9 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 441 (2012).
The Justification of Punishment, in THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 141 (Andrei Marmor ed., Routledge 2012).
Alexander’s Genius, APA NEWSL. PHIL. L., vol. 12, no. 1 (Fall 2012), at 1.
“Let ‘em Play”: A Study in the Jurisprudence of Sport, 99 GEO L.J. 1325 (2011).
Replay, 99 CAL. L. REV. 1683 (2011).
Originalism Is Bunk, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1 (2009).
More publications can be found here.