Brian Leiter holds the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Director of the Law & Philosophy Program. He also holds the honorary title of Visiting Professor of Philosophy at University College London. He teaches and writes in the areas of moral and legal philosophy, the law of evidence, and Continental philosophy, with particular interests in Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Foucault. He is the author of Nietzsche on Morality (London: Routledge, 2002), editor of The Future for Philosophy (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2004) and Objectivity in Law and Morals (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001); and co-editor (with John Richardson) of the volume on Nietzsche in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series (2001). His article "Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered" (Ethics, 2001) was recently selected as "one of the ten best philosophical articles of the year" by The Philosopher's Annual . He is also coeditor (with Larry Alexander and Jules Coleman) of the journal Legal Theory and editor of the new Routledge Philosophers book series. A collection of his papers, Naturalizing Jurisprudence , is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, and he is also editing (with Michael Rosen) and contributing to The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy (forthcoming).

He can be reached at:

University of Texas
727 East Dean Keeton Street
Austin, TX 78705
bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu

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