About the Editor

Brian Leiter holds the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Law & Philosophy Program. He is a visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago in fall 2006. He teaches and writes in the areas of moral and legal philosophy, the law of evidence, and 19^th- and 20^th-century Continental philosophy, with particular interests in Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Foucault. He is the author of Nietzsche on Morality (London: Routledge, 2002) and Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and editor or co-editor of six other books, including Nietzsche and Morality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) and The Future for Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004). He is also coeditor (with Larry Alexander and Jules Coleman) of the journal Legal Theory and editor of the new Routledge Philosophers book series.

He can be reached at:

email: bleiter at law-dot-utexas-dot-edu

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