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Curriculum Vitae
ARTHUR RIPSTEIN
Faculty of Law
University of Toronto
78 Queen’s Park Crescent
Toronto, ON, M5S 2C5
Telephone: 416-978-0735
E-mail: [email protected]
www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty/ripstein
Personal Information
Born June 12, 1958, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Citizen of Canada and Germany
Education:
1994 M.S.L. Yale Law School
1986 Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh,
Dissertation title: Explanation and Empathy in Commonsense Psychology.
Committee members: John Haugeland (director) Annette Baier (second
reader) Peter King, Peter Machamer.
1984 M.A. University of Pittsburgh
1981 B.A. (Hons.) University of Manitoba
Academic Positions:
2016- University Professor, Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy
1999- Professor, Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy
2011-14 Chair, Department of Philosophy
1996-1999 Professor, Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Law
1991-1996 Associate Professor, (with tenure) Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Law
1990 Cross appointed (status only) to Faculty of Law
1988 Appointed to Graduate Faculty
1987-1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
1986-1987 Visiting Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Franklin and Marshall College
Awards:
2016 University Professor (Rank reserved for 2% of tenured faculty)
2016 Killam Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts (Two-year leave fellowship, one of six
awarded annually in Canada across all disciplines.)
2012 Faculty Award, University of Toronto Alumni Association (Annual Award given to one
faculty member across the University for Excellence in Research and teaching over an
extended period.)
2011 Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize (Biennial Prize)
2010 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
2001 Nicholas Hoare/Renaud Bray Book Prize of the Canadian Philosophical Association
(Biennial Prize)
1994-95 Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship, Princeton University
1985-86 Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
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Awards (continued):
1985 Apple for the Teacher Award, University of Pittsburgh
1981-82 Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
Fellowships and Grants:
2016-18 Killam Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts ($140,000)
2014-20 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, $138,450.00
2009-15 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, General Research Grant,
$71,050
2006-10 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, General Research Grant
$49,813
2002-06 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, General Research Grant
$51,800
1998-2002 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, General Research Grant
$24,759.96
2000 Connaught Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Toronto $30,000
1995-96 Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship, Center for Human Values, Princeton University $33,000
1995-98 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, General Research Grant
$11,725.84
Professional Activities:
2005- Associate Editor, Philosophy & Public Affairs
2004-17 Member, Editorial board, Ethics
2010- Member, Editorial Board, University of Toronto Law Journal
2006- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Tort Law
2008-11 Program Advisory Committee, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division
1999- Member, Editorial Board, Legal Theory
2014- Member, Editorial Board, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy
1999-2004 Associate Editor of Ethics
1998- Advisory Editor, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence
1996-99 Editor, Canadian Journal of Philosophy
various Dialogue, Ethics, European Journal of Philosophy, Harvard Law Review, Kantian Review,
Law and Philosophy, Legal Theory, Nous, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy,
University of Toronto Law Journal, Yale Law Journal, Cambridge University Press,
Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Penn State Press, Princeton University
Press, University of Toronto Press, Germany Israel Fund, Israel Science Foundation,
SSHRC, British Academy, MacArthur Foundation.
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PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Books:
2016 Private Wrongs (Harvard University Press) 2016. 330 pages.
Chinese translation, China University of Political Science and Law Press, forthcoming April
2019.
Reviewed in: Harvard Law Review (Scott Hershovitz) Michigan Law Review (Andrew Gold)
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (Lewis Kornhauser) Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies
(Hanoch Dagan & Avihay Dorfman, John Gardner, Nicholas Cornell, Alexander Steel)
Cambridge Law Journal (Nicholas McBride), University of Toronto Law Journal (Christopher
Essert), Jurisprudence (Diego Papayannas, Peter Vallentyne, Emmanuel Voyiakis).
2009 Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (Harvard University Press), 412
pages.
-Awarded Canadian Philosophical Association Biennial Book Prize, 2011.
- Chinese translation, 强力与自由: 康德的法哲学与政治哲学, Intellectual Property Press, Beijing,
2016.
-Reviewed in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (Alan Wood) Concurring Opinions (Stefan
Bird-Pollan) Jurisprudence (Katrin Flikschuh, George Pavlakos) Harvard Law Review, Jotwell
(EkowYankah) Ethics (William Edmondson) Dialogue (Jon Mandle) Political Theory (Mika
laVanque-Matay) Journal of the History of Philosophy (Alyssa Bernstein) Osgoode Hall Law
Journal (Simon Kupi) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Victor Tadros) Review of Politics
(Howard Williams) British Journal for the History of Philosophy (Gary Banham) Kantian
Review (Sarah Holtman) Criminal Law and Philosophy (Ekow Yankah) Canadian Journal of
Law and Jurisprudence (Talia Fischer), Canadian Journal of Philosophy (Kyla Ebels-Duggan)
Legal Theory (Stephen Darwall) University of Toronto Quarterly (Mark Kingwell).
- Freedom and Force, edited by Sari Kisilevsky and Martin Stone (Hart Publishing, Oxford
2017) contains essays about Force and Freedom, by A.J. Julius, Katrin Flikschuh, Japa
Pallikkathayil, George Pavlakos, Andrea Sangiovanni, Martin Stone, Daniel Weinstock, and
Allen Wood, and a Reply.
1998 Equality, Responsibility and the Law (Cambridge University Press), 307 pages.
- Awarded inaugural Nicholas Hoare/Renaud Bray Book Prize of the Canadian Philosophical
Association, 2001
- Reviewed in: American Political Science Review (Mark Graber) Canadian Journal of
Philosophy (Richard Arneson) Canadian Political Science Review (Colin McLeod) Economics
and Philosophy (John Christman) Law and Philosophy (Larry Alexander) Michigan Law
Review (John Goldberg) Mind (Antony Duff) University of Toronto Law Journal (John
Gardner) Ethics (William Edmundson) Modern Law Review (William Lucy) Oxford Journal of
Legal Studies (Joanna Perkins) Philosophy in Review (Samantha Brennan) Philosophical
Quarterly
Books Edited:
2008 Immanuel Kant (Aldershot: Ashgate), 525 pages.
2007 Ronald Dworkin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 186 pages.
2001 Practical Reason and Preference: Essays for David Gauthier (edited with Christopher W.
Morris) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
1996 Law and Morality (edited with David Dyzenhaus) University of Toronto Press (an anthology
for use in undergraduate courses), 780 pages. - Second Edition, 2001,1008 pages
- Third edition (edited with David Dyzenhaus and Sophia Moreau), 2007, 1018 pages.
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Special Issues of Journals Edited:
2011 Understanding Law in its own Terms: Essays on the Occasion of Ernest Weinrib’s Killam
Prize (Special Issue of University of Toronto Law Journal)
1998 Philosophy and Criminal Law (edited with Mark Thornton), special issue of Canadian Journal
of Law and Jurisprudence, January.
Refereed Articles:
2018 “Reply: Relations of Right and Private Wrongs” (response to reviews by Diego Papayannas,
Peter Vallentyne, and Emmanuel Voyiakis) forthcoming in Jurisprudence. (7000 Words)
2017 “Private Authority and the Role of Rights: A Reply” (response to reviews by Nicholas Cornell,
Hanoch Dagan, Avihay Dorfman, John Gardner, and Alexander Steel), Jerusalem Review of
Legal Studies, 14 (1): 64-86.
2017 “Private Law and Morality Through Thick and Thin: Comment on John Gardner From
Personal Morality to Private Law” Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies. Vol. 15, No. 1 (2017),
pp. 138–151.
2017 “Property and Sovereignty: How to Tell the Difference” Theoretical Inquiries in Law Vol 18,
243-268.
2016 “Reclaiming Proportionality,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, 1-18
2016 “Just War, Regular War, and Perpetual Peace” Kant-Studien, Band 107, Heft 1, 179-195.
2015 “Standing, Value, and the Theory of Rights: Discussion of Why Law Matters” Jerusalem
Review of Legal Studies, (2015), pp. 1–11
2015 “Means and Ends” (Fifth Annual Jurisprudence Lecture) Jurisprudence. 6 (1) (2015) 1–23.
2012 “Form and Matter in Kantian Political Philosophy: A Reply” (response to reviews by Miriam
Ronzoni, Andrea Sangiovanni, Laura Valentini and Garrath Williams) European Journal of
Philosophy 20:3pp. 487–496.
2012 “Self-certification and the Moral Aims of the Law,” Critical Notice: Legality by Scott Shapiro,
Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol. XXV, No. 1 (January 2012) pp. 201-217.
2012 “Civil Recourse and the Separation of Rights and Remedies” 39 Florida State Law Review 163-
207
2011 “Distinctions of Power and the Power of Distinctions: a Response to Professor Koskenniemi”
61 University Of Toronto Law Journal 67-73.
2010 “Critical Notice of GA Cohen Rescuing Justice and Equality” Canadian Journal of Philosophy
40:4, 669-700
2010 “Reply to Flikschuh and Pavlakos” Jurisprudence 1 (2):317-324
2008 “Hindering a Hindrance to Freedom,” Jahrbuch fur Recht und Ethic 16, 227-250.
2008 “Closing the Gap,” Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9:1, 61-95.
2007 “Legal Moralism and the Harm Principle: A Rejoinder,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 35:2,
195-201.
2006 “Beyond the Harm Principle,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 34:3, 216-246.
- Reprinted in The Philosophy of Law (edited by Joel Feinberg and Jules Coleman) (Belmont
CA: Wadsworth, 2008).
- Reprinted in Perspectives on Property Law (edited by Robert Ellickson, Carol Rose, and
Henry Smith).
- Portuguese translation, Brazilian Journal of Philosophy 2014.
2007 “Tort Law in a Liberal State,” Journal of Tort Law 1:2, Article 3., 1-41.
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Refereed Articles (continued):
2007 “As if it had Never Happened,” William and Mary Law Review 48:5, 1957-1997.
2006 “Private Order and Public Justice: Kant and Rawls,” Virginia Law Review 92,1391-1432.
- Reprinted in Thom Brooks (ed.), Rawls and Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012).
2005 “In Extremis,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 2:2, 415-434.
2004 “Authority and Coercion,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 32:1, 2-35.
- Polish Translation, Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki, 2016.
2004 “Too Much Invested to Quit,” Economics and Philosophy20,185–208.
2004 “The Division of Responsibility and the Law of Tort,” Fordham Law Review 87:5, 1811-1844.
2004 “Justice and Responsibility,” Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 17:2, 361-86.
2000 “Three Duties to Rescue,” Law and Philosophy 19, 751-779.
- Reprinted in Torts edited by Alan Beever (Auckland: Brookers, 2004).
2000 “Private Law and Private Narratives,” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 20:4, 683-702.
- Reprinted in Relating to Responsibility: Essays Presented to Tony Honore on his 80th
Birthday, edited by John Gardner and Peter Cane (Oxford: Hart, 2001).
1999 “Prohibition and Preemption,” Legal Theory 5, 235-268.
1998 “Some Recent Obituaries of Tort Law,” University of Toronto Law Journal 48, 561-574.
- Reprinted in Introduction to Private Law Relationships, 3rd edition, edited by M.J. Mac Neil,
N. Sargent, T.B. Dawson and M.A. Nixon (Toronto: Captus Press, 1999).
1997 “What Can Philosophy Teach us about Multiculturalism?” Dialogue 36:3, 607614.
1997 “Responses to Humiliation,” Social Research 64:1, 90-112.
1996 “Law, Language, and Interpretation,” (critical notice of Andrei Marmor, Interpretation and
Legal Theory) University of Toronto Law Journal 46, 335-44.
1996 “Self-Defense and Equal Protection,” University of Pittsburgh Law Review 57:3, 685-724.
1996 Langille, Brian and Arthur Ripstein, “Strictly Speaking, It Went Without Saying,” Legal
Theory
2:2, 63-81.
1995 Coleman, Jules and Arthur Ripstein, “Mischief and Misfortune,” McGill Law Journal 40,91-
130.
- Reprinted in The Philosophy of Law, edited by Joel Feinberg and Jules Coleman (Belmont
CA: Wadsworth, 1999).
- Reprinted in Tort Law, edited by Ernest Weinrib (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
1995 “Recognition and Cultural Membership,” (critical notice of Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism
and the Politics of Recognition) Dialogue 34, 331341.
1994 “Universal and General Wills: Hegel and Rousseau,” Political Theory 22:3, 444-467.
- reprinted in Rousseau and Law, edited by Thom Brooks (Aldershot: Ashgate 2005).
1994 “Equality, Luck and Responsibility,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 23:1, 323.
1993 “Questionable Objectivity,” Nous 27, 355372.
1993 “Making the World Safe for Liberalism,” (critical notice of Will Kymlicka, Contemporary
Political Philosophy) Dialogue 32, 309314.
1992 “Liberal Justification and Neutrality,” Analyse &Kritik 14:1, 317.
1992 “The General Will,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 9:1, 69-84.
- Reprinted in The Social Contract Theorists: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau edited by C.W. Morris
(Lanham Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).
1990 “The Ideal Libertarian,” (critical notice of Jan Narveson, The Libertarian Idea) Dialogue 29,
285-298.
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Refereed Articles (continued):
1989 “Gauthier's Liberal Individual,” Dialogue 27, 63-76.
1989 “Rationality and Alienation,” in Analyzing Marxism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy,
Supplementary Volume edited by R.X. Ware and K. Nielsen, 449-466
1987 “Commodity Fetishism,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17:4, 733-748.
1987 “Explanation and Empathy,” Review of Metaphysics 40, 465-482.
1987 “Foundationalism in Political Theory,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 16:2, 115-137.
Refereed Chapters in Books:
2018 “The Innate Right of Humanity and the Right to Justification” forthcoming in Ester Herlin-
Karnell and Matthias Klatt (eds) Cosmopolitan Law as Justification. Oxford University Press
2018
2017 “Embodied Free Beings under Public Law: A Reply” in Sari Kisilevsky and Martin Stone
(eds.) Freedom and Force: Essays on Kant’s Political Philosophy (Oxford: Hart Publishing)
(Reply to essays on Force and Freedom by A.J. Julius, Katrin Flikschuh, Japa Pallikkathayil,
George Pavlakos, Andrea Sangiovanni, Martin Stone, Daniel Weinstock, and Allen Wood.)
179-214.
2017 Ripstein, Arthur, and Sergio Tenenbaum, “Directionality and Virtuous Ends: Kant on Our
Duties Regarding Animals” in Lucy Allais, Kant on Animals, Oxford University Press,
forthcoming.
2015 “What Does it Mean to Be at War?” in Edward Iacobucci and Stephen Toope (eds.) After the
Paris Attacks. (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2015) 85-90.
2015 “Time’s Arrow and the Rule of Law” in Lisa Austin and Dennis Klimchuk (eds.) Private Law
and the Rule of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 306-327.
2014 “Kant’s Juridical Theory of Colonialism” in Katrin Flikschuh and Lea Ypi (eds.) Kant and
Colonialism, (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 145-169.
2013 “Possession and Use” in James Penner and Henry Smith (eds.) Philosophical Foundations of
Property Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 156-181.
2012 “Kant and the Circumstances of Justice,” in Elisabeth Ellis (ed.) Kant’s Political Theory:
Interpretations and Applications (Penn State University Press) 42-73.
2009 “Kantian Legal Philosophy,” in Dennis Patterson (ed.) A Companion to Legal Philosophy
(Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley) 392-405.
Spanish translation, “Teoría Jurídica Kantiana” in Jorge Fabra y Ezequiel Spector,
Enciclopedia de Filosofía del Derecho y Teoría Jurídica, México, Instituto de Investigaciones
Jurídicas de la Universidad Autónoma de México, 2014, pp. 1736-1756 Chapter 49.
2009 “Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy,” in T. Hill (ed.) A Companion to Kant’s Ethics
(Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley), 155-172.
2007 “Introduction: Anti-Archimedeanism,” in Arthur Ripstein (ed.) Ronald Dworkin (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press), 1-21.
2007 “Liberty and Equality,” in Arthur Ripstein (ed.) Ronald Dworkin (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press), 82-108.
2005 “Public and Private Benefits in Higher Education,” in Frank Iacobucci and Carolyn Tuohy
(eds.) Taking Public Universities Seriously (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 498-513.
2002 “Torts,” in J.L. Coleman and S. Shapiro (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and
Legal Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 656-686.
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Refereed Book Chapters (continued):
2001 Ripstein, Arthur and Benjamin Zipursky, “Corrective Justice in an Age of Mass Torts,” in G.
Postema (ed.) Philosophy and the Law of Torts (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press), 214-
249.
2001 Morris, Christopher and Arthur Ripstein, “Introduction: Practical Reason and Preference,” in
Christopher Morris and Arthur Ripstein (eds.) Practical Rationality and Preference: Essays for
David Gauthier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1-10.
2000 “Disagreement and Coercion,” in R. Beiner and W. Norman (eds.) Canadian Political
Philosophy: Contemporary Reflections (Toronto: Oxford University Press), 349-362.
1998 “Multiculturalism,” in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Volume 6, 599-602.
1997 “Context, Continuity, and Fairness,” in Jeff McMahan and Robert McKim (eds.) The Morality
of Nationalism (Oxford), 209-226.
1997 “Political Philosophy,” in J.V. Canfield (ed.) Routledge History of Philosophy (Volume X):
Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge and Value in the Twentieth Century (London: Routledge),
285-306.
1993 “Preference,” in C. Morris and R.G. Frey (eds.) Value, Welfare and Morality (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press), 93-111.
- Revised version in Christopher Morris and Arthur Ripstein (eds.) Practical Rationality and
Preference: Essays for David Gauthier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 37
55.
1989 “Hobbes on World Government and the World Cup,” in Timo Airaksinen and Martin Bertman
(eds.) Hobbes: War among Nations (London: Gower Press), 112119.
Book Reviews:
2014 Review of Allen Wood, The Free Development of Each: Studies on Freedom, Right and Ethics
in Classical German Philosophy, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2002 Review of Antony Duff, Punishment, Communication and Community, Philosophical
Quarterly 53:211, 310-313.
2001 Review of Jeremy Waldron, Law and Disagreement, Philosophical Review 110:4, 611-614.
2000 Review of T.M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other, Philosophy in Review 20:1, 73-76.
2000 Review of Antony Duff (ed.) Philosophy and the Criminal Law, Philosophical Quarterly
50:198, 130-133.
1998 Review of John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza Responsibility and Control, Philosophy in
Review 18:6, 416-418.
1998 Review of Martha Nussbaum et al, For Love of Country, Dialogue 37:4, 851-853.
1997 Review of Jules Coleman and Allan Buchanan (eds) In Harm’s Way: Essays in Honor of Joel
Feinberg, Philosophical Books 38:1, 61-64.
1993 Review of Richard Miller, Moral Differences, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 13:3, 111-
113.
1992 Review of Allan Gibbard, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings, Philosophical Review, 101:4, 934-936.
1988 Review of Jean Hampton Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition, Canadian Philosophical
Reviews 8:3, 94-96.
1989 Review of Russell Hardin Morality Within the Limits of Reason, Canadian Journal of Political
Science 22:3, 685-686.
1990 Review of Gary Herbert Thomas Hobbes: The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom, Ethics
101:1, 200-201.
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Popular Pieces:
1995 “Undue Burdens,” Boston Review March/April.
1988 “Animal Rights and Wrongs,” Canadian Dimension July, 910.
1990-92 Fifteen Op-ed and “Principles” pieces, Toronto Globe and Mail, various dates.
Radio Specials:
2015 War and Peace (two part special with Michael Blake and Simone Chambers) IDEAS,
CBC Radio 1, November 12 and 13.
2013 My Brother and Sister’s Keeper (two part special with Michael Blake and Simone Chambers)
IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, May.
2011 Freedom of Expression (two part special with Michael Blake and Simone Chambers) IDEAS,
CBC Radio 1, May.
2010 Secularism (Two Part Special with Michael Blake, Mohammad Fadel, and Simone Chambers)
IDEAS CBC Radio 1, April 19-20
2009 Democracy (two part special with Michael Blake and Simone Chambers) IDEAS, CBC
Radio1, May.
2008 “The Dog Ate My Homework,” (with Michael Blake and Simone Chambers) IDEAS, CBC
Radio 1, March.
2006 “Emergencies,” (with Sophia Moreau and Michael Blake) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, May.
2005 “Borders and Boundaries,” (with Seana Shiffrin and Michael Blake) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1,
July.
2004 “Authority,” (with Seana Shiffrin and Gopal Sreenivasan) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, May.
2004 “Coercion,” (with Michael Blake and Gopal Sreenivasan) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, June.
2002 “The Truth About Lying,” (with Michael Blake and Samantha Brennan) IDEAS, CBC Radio
1, May 27.
2001 “For Your Own Good,” (with Michael Blake and Samantha Brennan) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1,
February 7.
1998 “Tough Luck,” (with Mayo Moran and Daniel Weinstock) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, October 27.
1996 “The Public Good Matters,” (with Will Kymlicka and Christine Sypnowich) IDEAS, CBC
Radio 1, November 29.
Conference Presentations:
2018 “National Defense” The public uses of coercion and force: from constitutionalism to war
Paul Scholten Centre, University of Amsterdam, February 1.
2018 “Roundtable/Replies,” The public uses of coercion and force: from constitutionalism to war
Paul Scholten Centre, University of Amsterdam, (Responses to papers by Mattias Kumm,
Malcolm Thorburn, Johan Olsthoorn, Massimo Renzo, Daniel Statman, Alon Harel, Katja
Ziegel, Luigi Corrias & Bertjan Wolthuis, Aravind Ganesh and Kai Moller) February 2.
2017 “In Bello Symmetry,” The Laws of War – Foundations of Jus Ad Bello, School of Law,
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella – November 2.
2017 “All the Kings Horses and All the King’s Men,” Halbert Network Workshop, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, June 5.
2017 “Property and Territory: How to Tell the Difference,” Workshop on Property and Territorial
Rights, Universität Bayreuth, May 5.
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Conference presentations (continued):
2016 Replies to comments on Private Wrongs by Rahul Kumar, Clifton Mark and Dan Priel, Centre
for Ethics, University of Toronto. November 21.
2016 “Governance through Summons,” Workshop on Allen Wood, Fichte’s Ethics, Department of
Philosophy, University of Toronto, November 18.
2106 Replies to comments on Private Wrongs by Herlinde Pauer-Studer, Daniel Markovits, Ulrike
Heuer, David Owens and Erasmus Mayr. “Moral Foundations of Tort Law: A Workshop on
Arthur Ripstein’s Private Wrongs,” Humboldt-Universität Berlin, September 23-24
2016 Replies to Papers on Force and Freedom by Tamara Jugov, Lea Ypi, Stefan Gosepath and
Rainer Forst, “Workshop with Arthur Ripstein. Force, Freedom and Right: Kantian Approaches
in Political Philosophy” Freie-Universität Berlin, September 22.
2016 “Proportionality and Right” Opening Lecture, “Workshop with Arthur Ripstein. Force,
Freedom and Right: Kantian Approaches in Political Philosophy” Freie-Universität Berlin,
September 22.
2016 “Non-Combatant Immunity” 30th Anniversary Conference, Centre for Professional and Applied
Ethics, University of Manitoba. February 5.
2015 “Property and Sovereignty: How to Tell the Difference” Conference on Property and
Sovereignty, Columbia Law School, September 25.
2015 “Legality, Morality and Defensive Force” Workshop on Self-Defense, University of Southern
California School of Law, April 17.
2014 “Just War, Regular War and Perpetual Peace” Toronto/Tsinghua Conference on International
Law, October 16.
2014 “Standing, Value, and the Theory of Rights,” Conference on Alon Harel, why Law Matters, co-
sponsored by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, and Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies.
2014 “Freedom without Form?” Manuscript Workshop on A.J. Julius, Reconstruction, Centre for
Ethics, University of Toronto
2014 “Cosmopolitan Right and Republican Freedom” Conference on Kantianism and
Republicanism, University of Hamburg, April 10.
2014 “Saving Groundwork III” North American Kant Society, American Philosophical Association,
Central Division, Chicago February 27.
2014 “Horizontal and Vertical,” Conference on Private Law and the Basic Structure, University of
Amsterdam, January 31.
2013 “Kant and the Law of War” (Keynote) Conference Freedom and Coercion, University of
Vienna 28 November.
2012 “The Law of Force and the Force of Law” (Keynote) Conference ‘The State of Jurisprudence',
Center for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, University of Antwerp, 2-3 November
2012 “Time’s Arrow and Rule of Law” Conference on Private Law and the Rule of Law, Faculty of
Law, University of Toronto, September.
2012 “Your Own Good Name: Understanding Defamation” Obligations VI, School of Law, Western
University, July.
2012 “Innate Right in Public Law” (Opening Keynote) Wege zur Freihiet: Offene Fragen der
Kantischen Rechts und politischen Philosophie, Georg-August Universität, Gottingen, July 5.
2012 “Kant and the Law of War” Paton Colloquium, University of St. Andrews, June 27.
2012 “Possession and Use” Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar 2012 - The Philosophical
Foundations of Property Law, University College London, May 11.
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Conference presentations (continued):
2011 “Reply to Ronzoni, Sangiovani, Valentini and Williams” ICPR General Conference, Reykjavik,
August 26.
2011 “Self-Certification and the Moral Aims of the Law” Conference on Scott Shapiro’s Legality
Cardozo Law School, June 5, 2011
2011 “Right as a Doctrine of Means” Conference on Justice and Virtue in Kant’s Practical
Philosophy School of Law, University of Antwerp, March 26, 2011
2011 “Civil Recourse in the Separation of Wrongs and Remedies” Conference on Civil Recourse
Theory, Florida State University School of Law, February 11, 2011
2010 “Response to Herman, Morris, Pallakathiyal, Julius and Stone” Conference on Force and
Freedom, Cardozo School of Law, June 2010
2010 “Replies to Katz, Weinstock and Wood” author meets Critics session, Canadian Philosophical
Association, Montreal, May 2010
2010 “Proportionality without Balancing,” invited lecture, Conference in Honor of Barbara Herman,
UCLA School of Law, April 2010
2009 “Response to critics” – symposium on Force and Freedom, Tel Aviv University Faculty of
Law, December 31, 2009 (response to critiques by Tali Fischer, Avilhay Dorfman, Raif
Zreik)
2009 “Moral Practices” Keynote address, UK Kant Society, Lancaster England, August 2009
2008 Manuscript Workshop on Arthur Ripstein, Force and Freedom, Faculty of Law, Queen’s
University, October, (Author Replies to 3 Commentators).
2008 Manuscript Workshop on Arthur Ripstein, Force and Freedom, Property Working Group
Annual Meeting, NYU Law School, July.
2008 Manuscript Workshop on Arthur Ripstein, Force and Freedom, Department of Philosophy,
Georgia State University, May 16-17, (author replies to 12 papers by commentators on
manuscript chapters).
2008 “Consent,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March.
2007 “Hindering a Hindrance to Freedom,” Conference on Kant’s Doctrine of Right, Friedrich-
Schiller-Universität Jena, July.
2007 “Closing the Gap,” Conference on Moral and Legal Luck, Hebrew University, January.
2006 “Tort Law in a Liberal State,” Journal of Tort Law Inaugural Conference, Columbia
University School of Law, September.
2006 Comment on Marcus Willaschek’s “Kant on Right Without Ethics,” North American Kant
Society, April.
2006 “As If It Had Never Happened,” Conference on Law and Morality, William and Mary College
of Law, March.
2006 “Private Order and Public Justice: Kant and Rawls,” Conference on Private Law and Political
Philosophy, University of Virginia School of Law, February.
2004 “Public and Private Benefits in Higher Education,” Conference on Public Universities,
University of Toronto, December.
2003 “The Division of Responsibility and the Law of Tort,” Conference on Rawls and the Law,
Fordham University School of Law, November.
2003 “In Extremis,” IVR World Congress, Lund Sweden, August.
2003 “Natural Law and Social Contract: Variations on Kantian Themes,” Conference on
Contractarian Legal and Political Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania School of Law,
May.
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Conference presentations (continued):
2003 “Too Much Invested to Quit,” Conference on Fairness versus Welfare, University of Toronto,
April.
2001 “Reply to Alexander and Perry,” Author Meets Critics Session, American Philosophical
Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March 30.
2001 “Torts,” Oxford-Toronto Legal Philosophy Conference, Oxford, February 23-24.
2000 “Justice and Responsibility,” Conference on Egalitarianism, Responsibility, and the Law,
UNC Legal Philosophy Conference, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park NC,
October 13-15.
2000 “Private Law and Private Narratives,” conference on Responsibility and Luck, Columbia
University School of Law, March.
1999 “Three Duties to Rescue,” Conference on Duties to Aid, Georgia State University, June.
1998 “Everything for Sale,” Conference on The Structure of Liberty, Quinnipiac College of Law,
November.
1998 “Prohibition and Preemption,” Conference on Preemptive Action, University of San Diego
Law School, April.
1997 “Corrective Justice in an Age of Mass Torts,” (with B. Zipursky) conference on Philosophy
and Tort Law, National Humanities Center, September.
1997 “Reciprocity and Responsibility,” Conference on Egalitarianism and Responsibility,
Universitie de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France, June.
1997 “Reasonable Persons, Mistakes of Fact and Mistakes of Law,” Conference on the Reasonable
Person, University of Western Ontario, March.
1995 “Self Defense and Inequalities of Power,” University of Pittsburgh Philosophy and Law
Symposium, April.
1994 “Three kinds of Membership,” American Philosophical Association, Los Angeles, April,
and at SSHRCC Research Network on Multiculturalism and Citizenship, March 1995.
1993 “Unnatural Facts,” Canadian Philosophical Association, Ottawa, May.
1993 “Equality, Luck and Responsibility,” IVR World Congress, Reykjavik, Iceland, May.
1992 “Rights for Ascriptive Groups,” Conference on Group Rights, Glendon College, February.
1989 “Real Abstraction and NeoClassical Marxism,” Conference on Marxism Now, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, December.
1989 “Hypothetical Preference” Canadian Philosophical Association, Universite Laval, May.
1989 “Rationality and Alienation” Philosophy and Political Science Joint Colloquium, University of
Toronto, February.
1988 “Comments on Contracts,” Canadian Political Science Association, Windsor, Ontario, June.
1988 “Gauthier's Liberal Individual,” Canadian Philosophical Association, Windsor, Ontario, May.
1987 “Contractarianism and Its Critics,” (Symposium with David Gauthier and Wayne Sumner),
University of Toronto, October.
1987 “Hobbes on World Government and the World Cup,” Hobbes Conference, University of
Helsinki, May.
1986 “The General Will,” Canadian Philosophical Association, May.
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Invited Lectures:
2018 “In Bello Symmetry” Department of Philosophy, Yale University, February 13.
2017 “National Defense” School of Law, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella – November 1.
2017 “Immanuel Kant: Finding Right in a Condition of War” Universität Hamburg, May 3.
2017 “In Bello Symmetry” Law and Humanities Workshop, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya,
March 17.
2017 “The Division of Responsibility 2.0” Private Law Workshop, Tel Aviv University, March 15.
2016 “Reclaiming Proportionality” Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture, King’s College
London, May 13.
2016 “Your Own Good Name,” Private Law Workshop, Tel Aviv University, March 16.
2015 “What You Already Have” Private Law Workshop, Tel Aviv University, March 18.
2015 “Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace?” Third Annual Kissel Lecture, Safra Center for Ethics,
Harvard University, February 5. Video available here.
2015 “Means and Ends,” Fifth Annual Jurisprudence Lecture, London School of Economics, January
16.
2015 “The Myth of Strict Liability,” Dickson-Poon School of Law, King’s College London,
January 15.
2014 “The Rule of Law and Time’s Arrow,” Yale Law School, April 1.
2013 “Right as a Doctrine of Means” University of Oslo/Norwegian Kant Society November 13.
2013 “Not on the Merits: Kant and the Law of War” Natural Law Lecture, Fordham Law School,
September 30.
2013 “Not on the Merits: Kant and the Law of War” Political Theory Workshop, Stanford
University, May
2013 “Possession and Use” Private Law Workshop, Harvard Law School, April 22
2013 “The Law of Force and the Force of Law” Department of Philosophy, University of
Saskatchewan, March 15.
2013 “Not on the Merits: Kant and the Law of War” Department of Philosophy, University of
Saskatchewan, March 15.
2013 “The Rights Theory of Interests” Department of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan,
March 16
2012 “Not on the Merits: Kant and the Law of War” Center for Human Values, Princeton
University, October 4.
2012 “The Duty to Rescue” Fellows Seminar, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes
of Health, February 2012.
2010 “Motive and Intention in Tort Law” Inaugural Lecture, Tort Law Working Group,
University of Western Ontario, November 4, 2010
2010 “Proportionality without Balancing” Colloquium in Legal Theory and Political Philosophy,
NYU School of Law, September 23
Legal Theory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, March 1
2009 “Roads to Freedom,” Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, March,
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, December 2008,
Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, October 2008,
USC Law School, February 2008, Political Theory Workshop, Brown University, November
2007.
2008 “Consent,” Claremont McKenna College, February.
2008 “Intention in Tort Law,” USC Law School, February, Georgetown Law School, January 2007.
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Invited Lectures (continued):
2005 “Beyond the Harm Principle,” Legal Theory Workshop, Yale Law School, April 2005,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, December 2004,
School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, November 2004.
2002 “Coercion and Authority,” Legal Theory Workshop, Columbia University, December,
Department of Philosophy, UCLA, November 2, 2001.
2001 “Justice and Responsibility,” Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario,
February, Ethics Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, New York University, December
2000, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, November 2000.
1998 “Injunctions and the Criminal Law,” Fordham University School of Law, December,
Queen’s University Department of Philosophy November 1998,
Vanderbilt University Law School, September 1998.
1998 “Punishment and the Tort/Crime Distinction,” School of Law, University of Illinois at
Urbana/Champaign, March.
1997 “Reciprocity and Responsibility in Distributive Justice,” Program in Justice, Economy and
Society, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, November.
1996 “Foreseeability in Tort Law,” Faculty of Law, McGill University, October.
1996 “Self-Defense and Equal Protection,” Program in Ethics and Public Affairs, Princeton
University, February.
1995 “Mischief and Misfortune,”DruimMoir Seminars in Analytic Legal Philosophy, December,
UCLA Law School, February 1995,
USC Law School, February 1995,
University of Manitoba November 1994,
University of Toronto Legal Theory Workshop, October 1994,
Faculty Workshop, Yale Law School, October 1994.
1993 “Equality, Luck and Responsibility,” University of Manitoba, February.
1992 “Responsibility and Luck,” (with Calvin Normore) Concordia University, November.
1992 “Questionable Objectivity,” University of California, Irvine, April,
Trent University, December 1991,
Georgetown University, November 1991,
1991 “Hegel and Rousseau,” Ohio State University, November.
1991 “Preference,” Columbia University, October,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, September 1991.
1990 “Preference and Beyond,” Bowling Green State University, October.
1990 “Thornton and Jones,” University of Toronto Philosophy Department Forum, October .
1990 “Non-Foundationalist Practical Reason,” Queen's University, March.
1990 “Argument and Advertising,” University of Manitoba, March.
1990 “Humans, Animals and the Rest of Nature,” University of Manitoba, March.
1989 “Non-Foundationalist Practical Reason: Its Implications for Legal Theory,” Western New
England School of Law, November.
1989 “Why Rational Choice Theory Can't Shed Light on Morality,” McGill University, February,
University of Waterloo, April, 1988.
1989 “Liberal Justification and Neutrality,” McMaster University, January.
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TEACHING:
Theses Supervised:
Doctoral Students Supervised to completion:
2009-13 Jacob Weinrib “Authority, Justice, and Public Law: A Unified Theory” (PhD)
2010-13 Ariel Zylberman “The Relationship of Right: A Constitutive Vindication of Human Rights”
(PhD)
2009-11 Helena Likwornik “Probability and the Law of Evidence” (Ph.D.; co-supervisor J. Heath)
2007-11 Doug Mackay “Political Justification” (Ph.D.)
2007-10 Cristian Dmitru “Global Justice and Odious Debt” (Ph.D.)
2004-08 Sari Kisilevsky, “Legal Rules Legal Reasoning” (Ph.D.)
2004-07 Paul Miller, “Essays Toward a Theory of Fiduciary Law” (Ph.D.)
2003-07 Jonathan Peterson, “Liberalism and the Public Interest in Art” (Ph.D.)
2003-06 Martin Hevia, “Separate People Acting Together” (SJD)
2003-06 Helga Varden, “The Liberal Ideal of Political Obligations - The Lockean Voluntarist vs.
Kant’s Non-Voluntarist Ideal of Political Obligations” (Ph.D.)
2000-05 Lisa Austin “Privacy, Law, and the Question of Technology” (Ph.D; co-supervisor R.
Gibbs.)
1999-2004 Gita Cale, “Responsibility Between Persons” (Ph.D.)
1998-2001 Emer O’Hagan “Practical Reason and the Myth of the Given” (Ph.D.)
1998-2000 Vicki Igneski, “Rescue and the Duty to Aid” (Ph.D.)
1995-97 Andrew Latus “The Problem of Moral Luck” (Ph.D.)
1992-96 Jean Jacques Baillargeon “A Defence of Political Liberalism” (Ph.D.)
1993-95 Dennis W. Klimchuk, “Automatism, Agency, and Responsibility” (Ph.D.; co-supervisor Ian
Hacking)
LL.M. Students supervised to completion:
2000-01 Ian McMillan. Title: “Patent Law and the Philosophy of Language”
1989-90 John Stanton-Ife. Title: Objectivity and legal disagreement
Doctoral Students currently supervising:
Joanna Langille, “Private International Law,”
Haim Abraham “Tort Liability of Soldiers”
Past Doctoral Committee member for: Kelin Emmett, Sareh Pouryosseffi, Zoe Sinel, Mark Bennett,
Michael Kessler (Harvard), Owen Ware, Lisa Fuller, Michael Garnett, Louis-Philippe Hodgson
(Harvard), Lars Vinx, Evan Fox-Decent, Gustav Ahrennius, Mayo Moran, Pura Sanchez-Zamarrano,
Moira Dossetor, Michael Dila, Victor Ramraj, Peter Trnka, Glen Melanson, Sinclair MacRae, David
Eliot.
Currently Committee Member for: Michael Blezy, Steven Coyne, Jeremy Davis, Carolyn Shapiro,
Etye Steinberg, Konstanze von Schultze.
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Classroom Teaching: (since assuming current appointment configuration in 1999 only)
Faculty of Law:
Torts (most years)
Philosophical Foundations of the common Law (multiple times)
Introduction to Legal Philosophy (multiple times)
Department of Philosophy:
Political Philosophy (multiple times)
Kant’s Doctrine of Right (multiple times)
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (multiple times)
Issues in the Philosophy of Law (multiple times)
Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (multiple times)
War and Morality
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SERVICE: (since assuming current appointment configuration only)
University of Toronto:
2015-18 Committee on Honorary Degrees
2015-16 Search Committee for Vice-
President, Human Resources and
Equity
2013-14 Special Joint Advisory Committee
on Memorandum of Agreement
with UTFA
2012 Convocation Speaker
2003-11 Governing Council
2003-11 Business Board of Governing
Council
2004-11 Executive Committee of Governing
Council
2010 Presidential Review Committee
2010 SGS Decanal representative on
various tenure committees
2008-09 Search Committee for Dean of
Graduate Studies and Vice-Provost,
Graduate Education
2008 SGS Decanal representative on
various tenure committees
2007-08 2030 Task Force on Governance
2006-07 President’s Advisory Committee on
Tobacco Stocks
2007 President’s Advisory Committee on
Darfur Stocks
2003-06 Connaught Humanities Panel (Chair
04-06)
Faculty of Arts and Science:
2016 Selection Committee for Jackman
Chairs
2015 Advisory Committee on Jackman
Chairs
2011-14 Budget Committee
2012-14 DACCA
2012-13 Director Search, IHPST
Philosophy Department:
2017-18 Member, Search committee
2016-17 Third Year Review Committee
Member, Search Committee
2014-15 Planning and Policy Committee
Member, Search Committee
Promotions and Awards Committee
2011-14 Chair of St. George Department and
Tri-Campus Graduate Department.
2008-10 Member, Search Committee
2008 Member, Chair Search
2007-08 Member, Search Committee
2006-07 Member, Search Committee
2006-08 Member, Promotions Committee
2005-06 Member, Search Committee
2004 Member, Search Committee
2003-05 Member, Promotions Committee
2000-03 Placement Officer
2000 Member, Chair Search
Faculty of Law:
2017-18 SSHRC Committee
2016-17 SSHRC Committee
2015-16 Workload Committee
Chairholders Committee
Awards Committee (Chair)
Research Committee
Distinguished Visitors and Special
Lectures Selection Committee
2014-15 Awards Committee
Chairholders Committee
2014 Decanal Search Committee
2000-16 Research Committee
2010 Decanal Search Committee
2008-09 Promotions Committee
2000-11 Research Committee (Chair)
2005 Decanal Search Committee
2004-05 Course Assignments Committee
2002-03 Academic Plan Committee
2001-02 Endowed Chairs Committee
2000-01 Course Assignments Committee
1999- Convenor, Law and Philosophy
Discussion Group
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External Reviewer for Tenure and/or Promotion/Lateral Appointment: Bowling Green State University (Philosophy), Georgetown University (Law), Harvard
University (Philosophy, Government, Law School, Kennedy School), London School of
Economics (Government), Ohio University (Philosophy), Oxford University (Law),
Princeton University (Politics), Queen’s University (Law, Philosophy), St. Mary’s
University (Philosophy) Stanford University (Philosophy), Tel-Aviv University (Law),
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Law), Université de Montréal (Philosophy), University at
Albany- SUNY (Philosophy) University of Alberta (Philosophy) University of British
Columbia (Ethics Centre), University of California, Berkeley (Law), University of
California, Los Angeles (Philosophy), University of California, San Diego (Philosophy),
University of Chicago (Committee on Social Thought, Philosophy), University of Glasgow
(Law), University of Haifa (Law), University of Michigan (Law), University of Nebraska-
Lincoln (Political Science), University of Pennsylvania (Law, Philosophy), University of
Pittsburgh (Philosophy), University of Regina (Philosophy), University of Southern
California (Law), Yale University (Philosophy), York University (Philosophy).