I am a Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Florida. I hold a law degree from Stanford and three graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Philosophy, from Yale. I was a DAAD Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg...More
I am a Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Florida. I hold a law degree from Stanford and three graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Philosophy, from Yale. I was a DAAD Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and an Alexander von Humboldt Faculty Research Fellow in Law at the Universities of Frankfurt and Gottingen. My work in First Amendment law, constitutional law, intellectual history, and interdisciplinary legal theory has appeared in such journals as Critical Inquiry, Ethics, Legal Theory, Dissent, Critical Review, Inquiry, History and Theory, Yale Law Journal, Duke Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and the Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte. I am editor of Basic Themes in Law and Jurisprudence (LexisNexis, 2000) and author of Meaning in Law: A Theory of Speech (Oxford University Press, 2009). My most recent article is entitled "The Unwritten Rules of Liberal Democracy," and my most recently completed book manuscript is entitled "The Marketplace of Ideas: An Interpretation." Particularly relevant for the conference proposal is an article I published in Critical Review entitled "An Inefficient Truth."
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