Deep Springs College is a private junior college in Deep Springs,California. With the number of undergraduates restricted to 26,the college is one of the smallest institutions of higher education in the United States. Though it offers an associate degree,most students transfer into a four-year college after completing their studies. Those enrolled pay no tuition and are given room and board.
Joseph Raz was an Israeli legal,moral and political philosopher. He was an advocate of legal positivism and is known for his conception of perfectionist liberalism. Raz spent most of his career as a professor of philosophy of law at Balliol College,Oxford,and was latterly a part-time professor of law at Columbia University Law School and a part-time professor at King's College London. He received the Tang Prize in Rule of Law in 2018.
Leslie John Green is a Scottish-Canadian legal scholar specialising in jurisprudence. He is Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College,Oxford University,and Professor of Law and Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Queen's University,Kingston. A legal positivist,his research also focuses on political philosophy and constitutional theory.
Wendy L. Brown is an American political theorist. She is the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,NJ. Previously,she was Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science and a core faculty member in The Program for Critical Theory at the University of California,Berkeley.
Robert D. Cooter is the Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law at the University of California,Berkeley,School of Law.
Purushottama Bilimoria is an Australian-American philosopher and Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University.
Alan James Ryan is a British philosopher. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was also Warden of New College,Oxford,from 1996 to 2009. He retired as Professor Emeritus in September 2015 and lives in Summertown,Oxford.
Elliot R. Wolfson is a scholar of Jewish studies,comparative mysticism,and the philosophy of religion.
Michael Frede was a prominent scholar of ancient philosophy,described by The Telegraph as "one of the most important and adventurous scholars of ancient philosophy of recent times."
Jonathan Simon is an American academic,the Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law,and the former Associate Dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Simon’s scholarship concerns the role of crime and criminal justice in governing contemporary societies,risk and the law,and the history of the interdisciplinary study of law. His other interests include criminology;penology;sociology;insurance models of governing risk;governance;the origins and consequences of,and solutions to,the California prison "crisis";parole;prisons;capital punishment;immigration detention;and the warehousing of incarcerated people.
Anthony Arthur Long FBA is a British-American classical scholar who is the Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Classics,Irving Stone Professor of Literature Emeritus,and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy and Rhetoric at the University of California,Berkeley.
Charles R. Beitz is an American political theorist known for his contributions to the field of global justice. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from Colgate University and advanced degrees in philosophy and politics from the University of Michigan and Princeton University. Beitz has held academic positions at Swarthmore College,Bowdoin College,and Princeton University,where he is currently the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics. His work,particularly his 1979 book Political Theory and International Relations,has been highly influential in the literature on global justice. Beitz has received numerous fellowships,served as editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs,and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.
Brian Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law,Philosophy &Human Values. A review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews described Leiter as "one of the most influential legal philosophers of our time",while a review in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies described Leiter's book Nietzsche on Morality (2002) as "arguably the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the past twenty years."
Louis A. Sass is a professor of Clinical Psychology at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University who specializes in severe psychopathology,philosophy and psychology,and psychology and the arts. Sass has served on the faculty of Rutgers University since 1983 and has been a visiting professor at a wide range of institutions both in the United States and abroad. He has been published widely,and his book Madness and Modernism:Insanity in the Light of Modern Art,Literature,and Thought has been called "a new landmark in the study of the modern era.". The revised edition of Madness and Modernism won the BMA:British Medical Association's 2018 award for Best Book in Psychiatry.
Samuel Ira Scheffler is a moral and political philosopher,who is University Professor of Philosophy and Law in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at New York University.
Barbara Herman is the Griffin Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of California,Los Angeles Department of Philosophy. A well-known interpreter of Kant's ethics,Herman works on moral philosophy,the history of ethics,and social and political philosophy. Among her many honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1985-1986) and election to the American Academy of Arts &Sciences (1995).
Asad Q. Ahmed is an American scholar who is the Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Culture and Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California,Berkeley. He is also the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Keith E. Whittington is an American political scientist and legal scholar. He has been the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University since 2006. In July 2024,he joined the Yale Law School faculty. Whittington's research focuses on American constitutionalism,American political and constitutional history,judicial politics,the presidency,and free speech and the law.
