Brian Leiter
American legal philosopher at the University of Chicago; writes on Nietzsche.
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- Brian Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar, born in 1963.
- He is Karl N.
- Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago and directs its Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values.
- He taught at the University of Texas from 1995 to 2008.
- He founded the Philosophical Gourmet Report and edited it for 25 years.
Key facts
- Born
- 1963, Manhattan1
- Education
- BA philosophy, Princeton (1984); JD (1987) and PhD in philosophy (1995), University of Michigan1
- University of Texas
- School of Law, 1995 to 2008; founded its Law and Philosophy Program1
- University of Chicago
- Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence from 2008; founder and director of the Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values1
- Editing
- Legal Theory, 2000 to 2008; Routledge Philosophers series; Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law (with Leslie Green)1
- Philosophical Gourmet Report
- Founder and for 25 years editor of the ranking of philosophy PhD programs; handed it on after protests in 2002 and 20141
- Books
- Nietzsche on Morality (2002)1
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