| 1 | Name: | Dr. Jeremy Waldron | |
| Institution: | New York University | ||
| Year Elected: | 2015 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1953 | ||
Professor Waldron is University Professor and Professor of Law at New York University, a position which, until recently, he held in conjunction with his appointment as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He teaches courses in legal philosophy and democratic and constitutional theory. He was previously University Professor at Columbia University, based in the law school, and before that he was Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and Professor of Law in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Waldron was born and educated in New Zealand, where he studied for degrees in philosophy and in law at the University of Otago. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 1978. He studied at Oxford for his doctorate in legal philosophy, and taught there as a Fellow of Lincoln College before moving to the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in political theory. He moved to the United States in 1987. He has written and published extensively in political theory and jurisprudence. His books and articles on theories of rights, on constitutionalism, on the rule of law, and on democracy, property, torture, security, and homelessness are well known, as is his work in historical political theory (on Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Hannah Arendt). He is the author of more than a hundred articles and his books include The Right to Private Property (1988), Liberal Rights (1993), Law and Disagreement (1999), The Dignity of Legislation (1999) God, Locke, and Equality (2002), Torture, Terror and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House (2010), Partly Laws Common to All Mankind: Foreign Law in American Courts (2012), Dignity, Rank, and Rights (2012) and The Harm in Hate Speech (2012). Professor Waldron is a prolific lecturer. He delivered the Gifford Lectures (on basic human equality) at Edinburgh in early 2015, the Holmes Lectures (on hate speech) at Harvard Law School in Fall 2009, the Tanner Lectures (on human dignity) at Berkeley in Spring 2009, and the Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School in 2007. He also delivered the second series of Seeley Lectures at Cambridge University in 1996, the 1999 Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University, the 2011 Law Lecture at the British Academy, and the. Waldron was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998, and he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2011. He has had honorary doctorates in law conferred by the University of Otago and the Catholic University of Brussels. He received the American Philosophical Society’s Henry Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence in April 2011 and was elected to membership of the Society in 2015. | |||