Jeremy Waldron
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Notable ideas | Criticism of judicial review The harm in hate speech lies in its defamatory nature Hate speech should not be protected by the First Amendment |
Jeremy Waldron (/ˈwɔːldrən/; born 13 October 1953) is a New Zealander legal philosopher. He holds a University Professorship at the New York University School of Law, is affiliated with the New York University Department of Philosophy, and was formerly the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford University. Waldron also holds an adjunct professorship at Victoria University of Wellington. Waldron is regarded as one of the world's leading legal and political philosophers.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
Waldron attended Southland Boys' High School, and then went on to study at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1974 and an LL.B. in 1978. He later studied for a D.Phil. at Lincoln College, Oxford, under legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin and political theorist Alan Ryan; Waldron graduated in 1986.[4]
Career
He taught legal and political philosophy at
Waldron gave the second series of Seeley Lectures at Cambridge University in 1996, the 1999 Carlyle Lectures at Oxford, the spring 2000 University Lecture at Columbia Law School, the Wesson Lectures at Stanford University in 2004, the Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School in 2007, and the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2015. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.
In 2005, Waldron received an honorary doctorate from the University of Otago, his alma mater.
Waldron was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.[6]
In 2019, a Professorial Chair in Jurisprudence was created in his name at the University of Otago.[7]
Legal and philosophical views
Waldron is a
Waldron has also criticised analytic
Criticism of judicial review
Sandrine Baume has identified Jeremy Waldron and
A staunch defender of the principle of democratic legislation, in an article titled "The Core of the Case against Judicial Review", Waldron has argued for a limited role for judicial review in a robust democratic government.
Affinity with judicial minimalism
In a review of a 2015 book by
Personal life
Waldron's longtime partner is Columbia Law School professor Carol Sanger.[20][21]
Publications
Books
- 1984. Theories of Rights, edited vol. ISBN 0-19-875063-3
- 1988. The Right to Private Property. ISBN 0-19-824326-X
- 1988. Nonsense Upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man, edited vol. ISBN 0-416-91890-5
- 1990. The Law: Theory and Practice in British Politics. ISBN 0-415-01427-1
- 1993. Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981–91. ISBN 0-521-43617-6
- 1999. The Dignity of Legislation, Seeley Lectures. ISBN 85-336-1896-4(Portuguese translation)
- 1999. Law and Disagreement. ISBN 0-19-924303-4
- 2002. God, Locke and Equality. ISBN 0-521-89057-8
- 2010. Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs: Philosophy for the White House. ISBN 978-0-19-958504-5
- 2012. The Harm in Hate Speech, Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures. ISBN 978-0674065895
- 2012. "Partly Laws Common To All Mankind": Foreign Law in American Courts. ISBN 978-0300148657
- 2012. The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property, ISBN 978-1107653788
- 2012. Dignity, Rank and Rights (Meir Dan Cohen: editor), Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-991543-9
- 2016. Political Political Theory, Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-74385-4
- 2017. One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality, Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674659766
Articles
- 2001, "Normative (or Ethical) Positivism" in Jules Coleman (ed.), Hart's Postscript: Essays on the Postscript to The Concept of Law. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-829908-7
- 2003, "Who is my Neighbor?: Humanity and Proximity," The Monist 86.
- 2004, "Settlement, Return, and the Supersession Thesis," Theoretical Inquiries in Law 5.
- 2004, "Terrorism and the Uses of Terror," The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 8, No. 1, Terrorism (2004) pp. 5–35.
- 2005, "Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence for the White House," Columbia Law Review 105.
- 2006, "The Core of the Case Against Judicial Review," Yale Law Journal115.
- 2009, "Dignity and Defamation: The Visibility of Hate"[22] ". 2009 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures.
- 2012, "Bicameralism and the Separation of Powers," Current Legal Problems 31.
References
- ^ "Introducing Jeremy Waldron | NYU Law Magazine".
- ^ "Columbia News ::: Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Waldron Named University Professors". Columbia.edu. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ Moyn, Samuel (16 October 2013). "Dignity's Due". The Nation. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ Faculty Jeremy Waldron. "Jeremy Waldron - Biography | NYU School of Law". Its.law.nyu.edu. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ "Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy | NYU School of Law". Law.nyu.edu. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ "New Chair of Jurisprudence for Otago, News and events, Division of Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand". Otago.ac.nz. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Jeremy Waldron from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- ^ Demes, Remy (15 August 2013). "Dignity, Rank, and Rights". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ Baume, Sandrine (2011). Hans Kelsen and the Case for Democracy, ECPR Press, pp53-54.
- ^ Ackerman, Bruce (1991). We the People.
- ^ Waldron, Jeremy (2006). "The Core of the case against judicial review," The Yale Law Review, 2006, Vol. 115, pp 1346-1406.
- ^ Jeremy Waldron, "The Core of the Case against Judicial Review," 115 Yale Law Review 1346 (2006).
- ^ Id. at 3161
- ^ Id. at 1363
- ^ Id. at 1366.
- ^ Id. at 1367.
- ^ Id at 1403, citing United States v. Carolene Products Co., 304 U.S. 144, 153 n.4 (1938).
- ^ Jeremy Waldron. Review of Cass Sunstein. The New York Review of Books, 1 March 2016.
- ^ Reibstein, Larry. "Introducing Jeremy Waldron | NYU Law Magazine". Retrieved 25 June 2022.
- ^ "N.Y.U. 's Big Raid: Scoring Waldron From Columbia Law". Observer. 13 March 2006. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
- ^ "Microsoft Word - Waldron.doc" (PDF). Retrieved 1 August 2019.
External links
- NYU Law Faculty Profile.
- NYU's Big Raid New York Observer, 13 March 2006 (on Waldron's appointment at NYU).
- Debate with John Yoo on torture.
- Waldron archive from The New York Review of Books
- "NYU's Waldron to Take Up Chichele Chair at Oxford on Half-Time Basis" Leiter Reports, 17 December 2009.