Jeremy Waldron
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Jeremy Waldron (born October 13, 1953) is a professor of law and philosophy at the New York University School of Law. He also holds a visiting professorship at Victoria University in his native New Zealand. Waldron is a liberal in both the general and American senses of the word, and a normative legal positivist. He has written extensively on the analysis and justification of private property, the political and legal philosophy of John Locke, and is an outspoken opponent of the American practice of judicial review, which he believes to be in tension with democratic principles. He has also criticized analytic legal philosophy for its failure to engage with the questions addressed by political theory.
Waldron holds a B.A. (1974) and an LL.B. (1978) from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a D.Phil. (1986) from Oxford University, where he studied under legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin. He also taught legal and political philosophy at Otago (1975-78), Lincoln College, Oxford (1980-82), the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1983-87), the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California (1986-96), Princeton University (1996-97), and Columbia Law School (1997-2006). He also served as a visiting professor at Cornell University (1989-90), Otago (1991-92), and Columbia (1995). He gave the second series of Seeley Lectures at Cambridge University in 1996, the 1999 Carlyle Lectures at Oxford, the spring 2000 University Lecture at Columbia, and the Wesson Lectures at Stanford University in 2004. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.
Students at Columbia were fond of placing kiwis at the podium when Prof. Waldron speaks in honor of his Kiwi (New Zealander) heritage. Waldron has referred to kiwis as "delicious fruit." It is unknown whether this "tradition" will be continued at NYU.
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[edit] Publications
[edit] Books
- Theories of Rights (ed. 1984), ISBN 0-19-875063-3
- The Right to Private Property (1988), ISBN 0-19-823937-8, ISBN 0-19-824326-X
- Nonsense Upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man (ed. 1988), ISBN 0-416-91890-5
- The Law: Theory and Practice in British Politics (1990), ISBN 0-415-01427-1
- Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981–91 (1993), ISBN 0-521-43617-6
- The Dignity of Legislation (1999), Seeley Lectures, ISBN 0-521-65883-7, ISBN 85-336-1896-4 (Portuguese)
- Law and Disagreement (1999), ISBN 0-19-924303-4
- God, Locke and Equality (2002), ISBN 0-521-89057-8
[edit] Articles
- "Who is my neighbor?: humanity and proximity", The Monist, 86 (2003).
- "Settlement, return, and the Supersession Thesis", Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 5 (2004).
- "Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence for the White House", Columbia Law Review, 105 (2005).
- "Normative (or Ethical) Positivism", in Jules Coleman (ed.), Hart's Postscript: Essays on the Postscript to The Concept of Law, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-829908-7.
[edit] External links
- Home page at NYU.
- Former home page at Columbia. Provides some academic background.
- "NYU's Big Raid", New York Observer, March 13, 2006 (on Waldron's appointment at NYU).
