Matthew Kramer

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Matthew H. Kramer
legal philosophy
  • political philosophy

    • Matthew Henry Kramer

    legal philosophy, and political philosophy. He is a leading proponent of legal positivism
    . He has been Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy since 2000. He has been teaching at Cambridge University and at Churchill College since 1994.

    Career

    Kramer was born in Massachusetts and educated at Middleborough High School,

    Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard University
    (J.D.) and Cambridge University (Ph.D. in Philosophy and LL.D.).

    His seventeen books as author and four as editor, as well as his dozens of journal articles, range over many areas of

    Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2005). He is a subject editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy and is on the editorial board of the Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, Law & Philosophy, Ratio Juris, and Legal Theory. He is also an Advisory Editor for the University of Bologna Law Review (general student-edited law journal).[4]

    At the undergraduate level he lectures and supervises in Jurisprudence, and he also lectures on Topics in Legal & Political Philosophy in the postgraduate LL.M. program. At Cambridge, he is a graduate supervisor both for Ph.D. students in the Law Faculty and for M.Phil. and Ph.D. students in the Philosophy Faculty.

    He was a visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in April 2009, and at Tel Aviv University in March 2012.

    In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[5]

    Inclusive legal positivism

    An inclusive legal positivist, Kramer argues in his book Where Law and Morality Meet that moral principles can enter into the law of any jurisdiction. He contends that legal officials can invoke moral principles as laws for resolving disputes, and that they can also invoke them as threshold tests which ordinary laws must satisfy. In opposition to many other theorists, Kramer argues that these functions of moral principles are consistent with all the essential characteristics of any legal system. He is also a leading proponent of the legal positivist argument that law and morality are separable, arguing against the position of natural-law theory, which portrays legal requirements as a species of moral requirements.[citation needed] According to him, even though the existence of a legal system in any sizeable society is essential for the realization of fundamental moral values, law is not inherently moral either in its effects or in its motivational underpinnings.

    Moral realism as a moral doctrine

    Influenced by the theories of

    value monism.[citation needed
    ]

    Publications

    The following is a list of books written by Kramer.

    Year Title ISBN
    1991 Legal Theory, Political Theory, and Deconstruction: Against Rhadamanthus 0-253-33148-X
    1995 Critical Legal Theory and the Challenge of Feminism: A Philosophical Reconception 0-847-67988-8
    1997 John Locke and the Origins of Private Property: Philosophical Explorations of Individualism, Community, and Equality 0-521-54890-X
    1998 A Debate Over Rights: Philosophical Enquiries 0-198-29899-4
    1999 In the Realm of Legal and Moral Philosophy: Critical Encounters 0-333-74325-3
    1999 In Defense of Legal Positivism: Law Without Trimmings 0-199-26483-X
    2001 Rights, Wrongs, and Responsibilities 1-349-42757-8
    2003 The Quality of Freedom 0-199-54573-1
    2004 Where Law and Morality Meet 0-199-54613-4
    2007 Objectivity and the Rule of Law 0-521-67010-1
    2009 Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine
    2011 The Ethics of Capital Punishment 0-199-64218-4
    2014 Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry 0-198-71420-3
    2017 Liberalism with Excellence 0-198-77796-5
    2018 H.L.A. Hart: The Nature of Law
    2021 Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint 0-198-86865-0
    2022 Without Trimmings: The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer 0-198-86886-3

    References

    1. ^ KRAMER, Prof. Matthew Henry, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
    2. ^ Cambridge Faculty of Law
    3. ^ Churchill College
    4. ^ "Advisory Board". Bolognalawreview.unibo.it. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
    5. ^ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
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