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Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy

B.A. (Cornell); J.D. (Harvard); Ph.D., LL.D. (Cambridge), F.B.A.

Interests

Legal philosophy, political philosophy, moral philosophy

Research centres and interest groups

CV / Biography

A full cv can be downloaded here.

Selected publications

 

Books

Legal Rights and Moral Rights (Cambridge University Press , 2025)

ISBN 13:
978-1-009-01116-7

Rights and Right-Holding: A Philosophical Investigation (Oxford University Press , 2024)

ISBN 13:
978-0-19-889122-2

Without Trimmings: The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer (Oxford University Press , 2022)

Co-editor(s):
Visa Kurki and Mark McBride
ISBN 13:
9780198868866

Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint (Oxford University Press, 2021)

H.L.A. Hart: The Nature of Law (Polity Press, , 2018)

Publisher:
ISBN 13:
978-1-509-52073-2

Liberalism with Excellence (Oxford University Press, , 2017)

Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry (Oxford University Press, , 2014)

The Ethics of Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Investigation of Evil and Its Consequences (Oxford University Press, , 2011)

Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility (Oxford University Press, (ed), 2011)

Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine (Blackwell, , 2009)

Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice (Routledge, (ed), 2009)

Co-editor(s):
Stephen de Wijze & Ian Carter
Publisher:
ISBN:
041599134X
ISBN 13:
9780415991346

The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart: Legal, Political, and Moral Philosophy (Oxford University Press, (ed), 2008)

Co-editor(s):
Claire Grant, Ben Colburn, and Antony Hatzistavrou
ISBN:
0199542899

Objectivity and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, , 2007)

Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology (Blackwell, (ed), 2007)

Co-editor(s):
Ian Carter and Hillel Steiner
ISBN 13:
978-1-4051-4503-9

Where Law and Morality Meet (Oxford University Press, , 2004)

ISBN:
0199274193
ISBN 13:
978-0199274192

The Quality of Freedom (Oxford University Press, , 2003)

ISBN:
0199247560
ISBN 13:
978-0199247561

Rights, Wrongs, and Responsibilities [editor and principal contributor] (Macmillan, , 2001)

In Defense of Legal Positivism (Oxford University Press, , 1999)

ISBN:
019926483X
ISBN 13:
978-0199264834

In the Realm of Legal and Moral Philosophy (Macmillan, , 1999)

Publisher:

A Debate over Rights (Oxford University Press,, 1998)

ISBN:
0198298994
ISBN 13:
978-0198298991

Hobbes and the Paradoxes of Political Origins (Macmillan, , 1997)

Publisher:

John Locke and the Origins of Private Property (Cambridge University Press, , 1997)

Critical Legal Theory and the Challenge of Feminism (Rowman & Littlefield, , 1995)

Legal Theory, Political Theory, and Deconstruction (Indiana University Press, , 1991)