John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values, University of Chicago
Greater Chicago Area
John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values, University of Chicago
Greater Chicago Area
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
I teach and write in the areas of moral, political, and legal philosophy and the law of evidence, with particular interests in the jurisprudence of American Legal Realism and the moral philosophy of Nietzsche.
Sample on-line essays:
Brian Leiter, "American Legal Realism," in Edmundson & Golding (eds.), THE BLACKWELL GUIDE TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY (2005): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=339562
Brian Leiter, "Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy," STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political/
J.D. , Law , 1984 — 1987
J.D., Ph.D. (Philosophy) ,