George P. Fletcher
| George P. Fletcher | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 5, 1939 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Criminal law, legal philosophy |
| Institutions | Columbia Law School |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago University of California, Berkeley Cornell University |
George P. Fletcher (born March 5, 1939) is the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University School of Law.[1]
Fletcher attended Cornell University from 1956 to 1959, studying mathematics and Russian. He received a B.A. in 1960 from University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. in 1964 from the University of Chicago. He studied at the University of Freiburg from 1964 to 1965 and received a Masters in Comparative Law in 1965 from the University of Chicago.
Fletcher is a noted expert on criminal law. His widely-taught book Rethinking Criminal Law is a "well known time-honored classic of criminal law jurisprudence and the most cited scholarly book on criminal law." Fletcher was honored on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication with a "Symposium: Twenty-Five Years of George Fletcher's Rethinking Criminal Law."[2]
[edit] Books
- Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why, co-authored with Jens Ohlin Oxford University Press 2008
- Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy (Oxford 2001) was honored as the best book on law published in 2001.
- With Justice for Some: Victims’ Rights in Criminal Trials (Addison Wesley 1995), quoted by Marsha Clark in the O.J. Simpson trial.
- Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships (Oxford 1993), praised by William Safire twice in his column in the New York Times, translated in French, German, and Spanish.
- A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial (Free Press 1988) received the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, translated into German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.
- Rethinking Criminal Law (Little Brown 1978) received the Order-of-Coif award as one of the best books published on law in the late 1970s
- Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism (Princeton University Press, 2002)
- Basic Concepts of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 1998) (Spanish edition, 1997; Russian edition, 1998; Italian edition forthcoming)
- Basic Concepts of Legal Thought (Oxford University Press, 1996)
- With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials (Addison-Wesley,1995) (paperback, 1996; Spanish edition, 1996)
- Introduzione Elementare alla Scienza Giuridica (II. Cardozo Lectures in Law)
- Justification and Excuse: Comparative Perspectives, Volumes I and II (ed. with A. Eser 1987)
- Courts of Terror (Fletcher, Dershowitz et al. eds., Knopf 1976)
[edit] Honors
- Winner of the German Wissenschaftspreis 1995.
- Delivered Storrs Lectures at Yale, 2001.
- Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004).
[edit] References
- ^ Fletcher Curriculum Vitae
- ^ Symposium: Twenty-Five Years of George Fletcher's Rethinking Criminal Law, RUSSELL CHRISTOPHER, University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 39, pp. 737-994, Summer 2004.
