Curriculum Vitae

Specializations
Ethics
Philosophy of Law
Political Philosophy
 

 

This is a monograph, in progress, at the intersection of legal theory and normative ethics.  Read an abridged book proposal and the following papers-in-progress that I am incorporating into the book:
 

Rules that Bend without Breaking

Legal Formalism, Stage-Neutrality, and Comparative Justice

Transcending the Debate Between Inclusive and Exclusive Legal Positivists

Judicial Minimalism and Formal Justice
 

 

"Why One Basic Principle?," Utilitas, vol. 19, no. 2 (June 2007): 220-242.

“Contractualism and Deontic Restrictions,” Ethics, vol. 114, no. 2 (January 2004): 269-300.

“Consistency, Common Morality, and Reflective Equilibrium,”Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 13, no. 3 (September 2003): 231-58 (Special Issue: Is There a Common Morality?, Guest Editor: Robert M. Veatch).
 
“Euthanasia” in David Levinson, ed., Encyclopedia of Crime & Punishment (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2002)

“Hans Kelsen’s Unstable Alternative to Natural Law: Recent Critiques,”American Journal of Jurisprudence, vol. 41 (1996)

“Reconstructing MacKinnon: Essentialism, Humanism, Feminism,” Southern California Review of Law & Women's Studies, vol. 6 (1996)

“Legitimacy, Consequentialism, and Conflict of Laws: Lea Brilmayer’s Rights-Based Theory,”New England Law Review, vol. 30, No. 1 (1995)
 

Under review
A lengthy paper on punishment theory: Innocents Lost: Proportional Sentencing and the Paradox of Collateral Damage

Updated June 13, 2007.