EDUCATION:

1963: Magister Juris. Summa cum Laude The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

1967: D.Phil., Oxford University

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1967-72: Law Faculty and Dept. of Philosophy, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. To 1971 as Lecturer; then as Senior Lecturer with tenure.

1972-86: Fellow and Tutor in Law, Balliol College, Oxford.

This appointment was coupled with a CUF university lectureship. From 1977 I have also been, & still am, a member of the faculty of philosophy.

1985-06: Professor of the Philosophy of Law, Oxford University, and Fellow of Balliol College. (an ad hominem chair).

2002-  Professor at the Law School, Columbia University, NY.

2006-  Research Professor, Oxford University

 

MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES

1987- Fellow of the British Academy.

1992- Foreign Honorary Member, The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

 

HONOURS AND PRIZES

1987: The W.J.M. MACKENZIE BOOK PRIZE, of The Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (for The Morality of Freedom).

1988: The Elaine and David SPITZ BOOK PRIZE of The Conference for the Study of Political Thought (for The Morality of Freedom).

1993: Honorary Doctor, Katholieke Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium

2005: International Prize for Legal Research ‘Hector Fix-Zamudio’, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

 

KEYNOTE & NAMED LECTURES (a selection):

Ida Beame Lecture, University of Iowa Law School, 1988

Kobe Lectures, Tokyo & Kyoto, 1994

Jerome Hall Lecture, University of Indiana Law School, 1994

Miller Lecture, University of Glasgow School of Law, 1994

James Moffett Lecture, Princeton University, 1996

Olin Distinguished Lecture, Notre Dame University, Indiana, 1999

Annual McGill Lecture in Jurisprudence & Public Policy, McGill University, 1999 

Seeley Lecture, Cambridge University 2000 

Nelson Philosopher in Residence, University of Michigan, 2001

Tanner Lectures, Berkeley 2001

Knox Lecture, University of St. Andrews, 2001

Petracyczki Lecture, University of Warsaw 2002 

Storrs Lectures, Yale University 2003

Stice Lecture, U. of Washington, 2003

Keynote address, Political Philosophy conference, Tsingua University, Beijing, 2003

Dewey Lecture, U. of Minesota, 2005

Minerva Lecture on Human Rights, Tel Aviv University 2006

Keynote address, BSET conference, Southampton 2006

  

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

1970-1972: Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford.

Fall 1974: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, The Rockefeller University, New York.

August 1977: Visiting Professor, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Spring 1984: Visiting Professor, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California at Berkeley.

September 1987: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto,

Fall 1988: Visiting Professor, jointly at Yale Law School and at the Dept.of Political Science at Yale University.

Spring 1989: Visiting Professor, Law Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Spring Quarter 1989, Fellow (for part of the period in residence), Humanities Reasearch Institute, University of California at Irvine.

Fall 1991: Visiting Professor, School of Law, Columbia University, N.Y.

March 1993: Visiting Mellon Fellow, Dept. of Philosophy, Princeton University.

Fall 1993: Visiting Professor, School of Law, Columbia University, N.Y.

Oct. 1994: Nelson Visiting Professor, Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor.

1995-2002: Visiting Professor, Law School, Columbia University

2007: British-Hispanic Professor, Complutensa Univeristy, Madrid

 A number of short academic visits to  Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, The Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.

 

EDITORIAL AND CONSULTATIVE COMMITMENTS

1982- Member, editorial board, Law and Philosophy.

1984-92 Editor (with A.M. Honoré) of Clarendon Law Series, Oxford University Press.

1985-99 Member, editorial board, Current Legal Theory

1988- Member, editorial board, Ratio Juris

1989- Member, editorial board of a philosophy of law book series La Pensee Juridique eds by M. Troper & J. Lenoble; published by LGDJ (Paris) and Story-Scientia (Brussels)

1989-94 Member, Academic Council, Centre for Institutional Studies, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1990- Member, editorial board, The Philosophy of History and Culture, a book series ed. M. Krausz (Bryn Mawr), publisher E.J. Brill.

1990- Member, editorial board, the Amercian Journal of Jursiprudence.

1993- Member, editorial board, Ethics.

1994- Member, editorial board, Isonomia, Mexico City.

1994- Member, editorial board, Legal Theory

1997- 2005 Member, editorial board, book series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law.

1997-2006 Member, editorial board, Res Publica

1999–2001 Member, advisory committee, the Freedom Project (The Templeton Foundation)

1999-2007 (together with Liam Murphy): Subject editor: Philosophy of Law, Standford     Encyclopaedia of Philosophy  

2000- Member, editorial board, Philosophy & Public Affairs

2000 – Member, International Panel, Jus et Lex, Warsaw

2001 – Member, advisory board, The International Journal of Constitutional Law.

2004 – Member, editorial board, The Journal of Moral Philosophy

2004 – Member, editorial board, The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.

2005 – Member, editorial board, Linguistic & Philosophical Investigations (English & Rumanian)

2006 – Member, advisory board, the complete edition of Kelsen’s works.

 

TEACHING

I Regularly conduct seminars on topics in moral, political and legal philosophy, & supervise research students in all these areas.