Brian Leiter is John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director of the new Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values at the University of Chicago.  He teaches and writes in the areas of moral, political and legal philosophy, the law of evidence, and 19th- and 20th-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 The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy (2007), Nietzsche and Morality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) and The Future for Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004). He is co-editor (with Leslie Green) of the new Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law series and was previously co-editor for almost eight years of the journal Legal Theory.  He is also editor of the Routledge Philosophers book series.  He also runs two scholarly blogs, one about Nietzsche, and one about legal philosophy.

He can be reached at: bleiter-at-uchicago-dot-edu.

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