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The University of Pennsylvania boasts one of the nation’s broadest and deepest concentrations of scholars working at or near the intersection of law and philosophy. This breadth is richly represented at the Institute, whose 17 faculty members – more than half of whom have earned both a JD and a PhD – hold principal appointments in the Law School, the Philosophy Department, and at Wharton. The collective expertise of Institute faculty members ranges across the landscape of legal, moral, and political philosophy, covering such subfields as general jurisprudence, philosophy of criminal law, philosophy of tort law, philosophy of contracts, constitutional theory, democratic theory, liberalism, business ethics, bioethics, the ethics of war, distributive justice, racial and gender justice, global justice – and many more.
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Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy Research Interests: Constitutional Theory, Philosophy of Criminal Law, General Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Sport.
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Professor of Law and Philosophy Research Interests: Philosophy of Comparative Law, Constitutional History and Theory, General Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Mathematics.
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Earle Hepburn Professor of Law Research Interests: Criminal Law, Evidence, Advanced Law and Philosophy |
Associate Directors |
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Samuel Freeman
Avalon Professor in the Humanities Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Philosophy and the Constitution, Distributive Justice, Moral Philosophy. |
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John J. O’Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Tort Law, Philosophy of Responsibility, Morality of Risk Imposition. |
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Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics Research Interests: Freedom of Expression, Criminal Law Theory, White Collar Crime and Corporate Responsibility, Gender and Racial Justice. |
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Law Research Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy |
Affiliated Faculty |
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Vice-Provost for Faculty Research Interests: Privacy and Data Protection Law, Philosophy and Ethics of Privacy, Bioethics and the Law, Applied Ethics, African American Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Torts, Substantive Due Process. |
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Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics Research Interests: Moral Demandingness, Individual Obligations of Justice, Climate Change Ethics, Ideal and Non-ideal Theory, Collective Obligations, Methodology in Ethics |
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Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy Research Interests: Philosophy of Criminal Law, Philosophy of Contracts, Jurisprudence, Moral and Political Philosophy, Law of War. |
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Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics Research Interests: Law and Coercion, Ethics of Obeying Unenforced and Under-enforced Law, Democratic Theory, Justice in Medical Care and Clinical Research. |
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Frank Carano Professor of Law Research Interests: Criminal Law, Philosophy of Criminal Law, Problems of Law and Morality, Legal Theory. |
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy Research Interests: Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Action. |
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Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law Research Interests: Philosophy of Criminal Law, Philosophy of Responsibility, Bioethics, Philosophy and Neuroscience. |
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Guardsmark Professor Research Interests: Business Theory, Corporate Law, Environmental Sustainability. |
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Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics Research Interests: Normative Ethics, Business Ethics. |
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Professor of Philosophy, and Undergraduate Chair Research Interests: Global Justice, Distributive Justice, Pluralism and Universalism, Multiculturalism, Human Rights. |
