Jeremy Waldron

Jeremy Waldron

Born	(1953-10-13) 13 October 1953 New Zealand
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Main interests	Legal philosophy
Influenced by Ronald Dworkin, Joseph Raz

Jeremy Waldron (born 13 October 1953) is a New Zealand professor of law and philosophy. He holds a professorship at the New York University School of Law and is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford University. Waldron also holds an adjunct professorship at Victoria University.

Career

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 and political theorist Alan Ryan. He also taught legal and political philosophy at Otago (1975–78), Lincoln College, Oxford (1980–82), the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1983–87), the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley (1986–96), Princeton University (1996–97), and Columbia Law School (1997–2006). He has also been a visiting professor at Cornell (1989–90), Otago (1991–92) and Columbia (1995) Universities.

Waldron 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 Law School, the Wesson Lectures at Stanford University in 2004, and the Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School in 2007. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

In 2005, Waldron received an honorary doctorate from the University of Otago, his alma mater.

Legal and philosophical views

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, and on the political and legal philosophy of John Locke. He is an outspoken opponent of judicial review and of torture, both of which he believes to be in tension with democratic principles. He rejects the view that hate speech should be protected by the First Amendment.

Waldron has also criticized analytic legal philosophy for its failure to engage with the questions addressed by political theory.

Publications

Books

• 1984. Theories of Rights, edited vol. ISBN 0-19-875063-3
• 1988. The Right to Private Property. ISBN 0-19-823937-8, ISBN 0-19-824326-X
• 1988. Nonsense Upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man, edited vol. ISBN 0-416-91890-5
• 1990. The Law: Theory and Practice in British Politics. ISBN 0-415-01427-1
• 1993. Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981–91. ISBN 0-521-43617-6
• 1999. The Dignity of Legislation, Seeley Lectures. ISBN 0-521-65883-7, ISBN 85-336-1896-4 (Portuguese translation)
• 1999. Law and Disagreement. ISBN 0-19-924303-4
• 2002. God, Locke and Equality. ISBN 0-521-89057-8
• 2010. Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs: Philosophy for the White House. ISBN 978-0-19-958504-5
• 2012. The Harm in Hate Speech, Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures. ISBN 978-0674065895
• 2012. "Partly Laws Common To All Mankind": Foreign Law in American Courts. ISBN 978-0300148657
• 2012. The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property, Hamlyn Lectures. ISBN 978-1107653788

Articles

• 2001, "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. ISBN 0-19-829908-7
• 2003, "Who is my Neighbor?: Humanity and Proximity," The Monist 86.
• 2004, "Settlement, Return, and the Supersession Thesis," Theoretical Inquiries in Law 5.
• 2004, “Terrorism and the Uses of Terror”. The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 8, No. 1, Terrorism (2004) pp. 5–35.
• 2005, "Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence for the White House," Columbia Law Review 105.
• 2006, "The Core of the Case Against Judicial Review," Yale Law Journal 115.
• 2009, "Dignity and Defamation: The Visibility of Hate". 2009 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures.

External links

• NYU Law Faculty Profile.
• "NYU's Big Raid," New York Observer, 13 March 2006 (on Waldron's appointment at NYU).
• Debate with John Yoo on torture.
• Waldron archive from The New York Review of Books
• "NYU's Waldron to Take Up Chichele Chair at Oxford on Half-Time Basis" Leiter Reports, 17 December 2009.