Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Law

The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law has a very strong faculty in philosophy of law.  This strength is supplemented by an exceptional group of affiliated faculty in philosophy and political theory.  The Program on Philosophy, Politics, and Law organizes lectures, conferences, and courses in legal and political philosophy.  Particular areas of strength include criminal law theory, punishment, forgiveness, constitutional interpretation, human rights theory, law and literature, law and religion, and political obligation. 

Members from the College of Law

Michael White, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and Law
James Weinstein, J.D., Amelia Lewis Professor of Constitutional Law
Mary Sigler , J.D., Ph.D., Professor of Law
Jeffrie Murphy, Ph.D., Regents' Professor of Law, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
 
 

Members from other units


Terence Ball, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science
Cheshire Calhoun, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
Peter de Marneffe, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy
Peter French, Ph.D., Director, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics and the Lincoln Chair in Ethics
Joan McGregor, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
Avital Simhony, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science
Margaret Walker, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
  
  

 

Speakers


Recent speakers include
Steven D. Smith, Fred Schauer,
M.B.E. Smith, Lawrence Alexander,
Robert Post, and Michael Perry.


 

Jurisprudence courses
offered:

  • Jurisprudence (Sigler)
  • Great Traditions in Jurisprudence
    (White)  
  • Law and Literature (Murphy)
     

Special seminars

Recent examples include:
  • Natural Law Theory (White)
  • The Passions of Law (Murphy)
  • Philosophy of Punishment (Sigler)
  • Responding to Evil (Murphy)