Subdivision
| • | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | [X] |
| | 81 | 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. | |
| 82 | Name: | Dr. Michael Walzer | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | | | | |
Michael Walzer has made major contributions in a number of fields, including political philosophy; moral theory; the history of social theory; the history and sociology of religion; and the history and theory of social criticism. His ability to combine theoretical, normative and historical approaches in these areas is unmatched. Over the years he has written on a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation; just and unjust war; nationalism and ethnicity; economic justice; and the welfare state. He has also played a part in the revival of a practical, issue focused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life. He is currently working on the toleration and accommodation of "difference" in all its forms and also on a (collaborative) project focused on the history of Jewish political thought. A professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study since 1980, Dr. Walzer previously taught at Princeton (1962-66) and Harvard Universities (1966-80). He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961. Described by Political Theory as "one of the truly significant American political thinkers of our time," Dr. Walzer has numerous publications to his credit, including The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics (1965); Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War and Citizenship (1970); Just and Unjust Wars (1977); Exodus and Revolution (1985); The Company of Critics (1988); Toward a Global Civil Society (1995); War, Politics, and Morality (2001); Politics and Passion: Towards a More Egalitarian Liberalism (2004); Thinking Politically: Essays in Political Theory (2007); and In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible (2012). In April 2008, Michael Walzer was awarded the prestigious Spinozalens, a bi-annual prize for ethics in The Netherlands. A book in Dutch entitled Justice Without Boundaries, comprised of his lecture, other essays and an interview, was published simultaneously to the award. Michael Walzer was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1990. | |
| 83 | Name: | Dr. Robert E. Ward | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | December 7, 2009 | | | | | | |
Robert E. Ward is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1948 and went on to teach political science for many years at the University of Michigan, where he also directed the university's Center for Japanese Studies. Highly regarded both in this country and in Japan, Dr. Ward is the author of works including Village Japan; Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey; Japan's Political System; and A Guide to Japanese Reference and Research Materials in the Field of Political Science. He has also served as a member of the Committee on Problems and Policy of the Social Research Council and has taken the lead in cooperative projects involving Japanese and American scholars in a study of the United States post-war occupation of Japan. He is a former president of the American Political Science Association. | |
| 84 | Name: | Dr. Herbert Wechsler | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | April 26, 2000 | | | | |
| 85 | Name: | Dr. Myron Weiner | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | 6/3/99 | | | | |
| 86 | Name: | Dr. James Q. Wilson | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 1984 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | March 2, 2012 | | | | | | |
Dr. James Q. Wilson taught political science at Harvard University from 1961 to 1987 as the Shattuck Professor of Government. He was the James Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy from 1985 to 1997. He then was the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. Dr. Wilson was the author or coauthor of fifteen books, including The Marriage Problem, Moral Judgement, The Moral Sense, Bureaucracy, Crime and Human Nature (with Richard J. Herrnstein), Political Organizations, Thinking About Crime, Varieties of Police Behavior, The Amateur Democrat, and Negro Politics. His essays on morality and human character have been collected in On Character: Essays by James Q. Wilson. His textbook on American government is widely used on college and high school campuses. Dr. Wilson has served on a number of national commissions. He was chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime in 1966, the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse Prevention in 1972-73, and the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies. He was a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1985 to 1991. He has been a trustee of the Rand Corporation, the Police Foundation, State Farm Mutual Insurance Company, and Protection One. Dr. Wilson has been president of the American Political Science Association (1991-1992) and received the APSA's James Madison Award for a career of distinguished scholarship and the John Gaus Award for exemplary scholarship in political science and public administration. He has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was educated at the University of the Redlands (B.A., 1952) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1959). In 2003 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, at the White House. He died March 2, 2012, at age 80 in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
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