The Center for Law and Philosophy's mission is to provide a basis for high-level scholarly cooperation, first among the extraordinary group of faculty at Columbia University in the overlapping areas of moral philosophy, political theory, and jurisprudence, and second, to provide leadership in this area of overlap for scholars in the New York area and the United States.
The center was established at Columbia Law School in 1997, with funds from the Provost's Strategic Initiative (SI). Since then, the center has organized and sponsored a variety of activities to bring together many of Columbia’s impressive faculty resources in moral, political, and legal philosophy, in public lectures, specialist workshops, regular colloquia, and academic conferences.
Articles
Aggravating Youth: Roper v Simmons and Age Discrimination, Elizabeth F. Emens
A Transaction Theory of Crime?, George P. Fletcher
Authority and Consent, Joseph Raz
Collective Guilt and Collective Punishment, George P. Fletcher
Contract Design and the Structure of Contractual Intent, Jody S. Kraus and Robert E. Scott
Criminal Theory in the Twentieth Century, George P. Fletcher
Decoupling Sales Law from the Acceptance-Rejection Fulcrum, Jody S. Kraus
Disenfranchisement as Punishment: Reflections on the Racial Uses of Infamia, George P. Fletcher
Dogmas of the Model Penal Code, George P. Fletcher
Domination in Wrongdoing, George P. Fletcher
Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory, George P. Fletcher
From Rethinking to Internationalizing Criminal Law, George P. Fletcher
Hamdan Confronts the Military Commissions Act of 2006, George P. Fletcher
Integrating Accommodation, Elizabeth F. Emens
Justice and Fairness in the Protection of Crime Victims, George P. Fletcher
Law and Morality: A Kantian Perspective, George P. Fletcher
Legal Determinacy and Moral Justification, Jody S. Kraus
Legal Principles and the Limits of Law, Joseph Raz
Manifest Criminality, Criminal Intent, and the Metamorphosis of Lloyd Weinreb, George P. Fletcher
Morality as Interpretation, Joseph Raz
On Lawful Governments, Joseph Raz
On the Socratic Maxim, Joseph Raz
Paradoxes in Legal Thought, George P. Fletcher
Personal Sovereignty and Normative Power Skepticism, Jody S. Kraus
Rights and Politics, Joseph Raz
Should Intolerable Prison Conditions Generate a Justification or an Excuse for Escape?, George P. Fletcher
Some Unwise Reflections about Discretion, George P. Fletcher
The Case for Treason, George P. Fletcher
The Correspondence of Contract and Promise, Jody S. Kraus
The Fall and Rise of Criminal Theory, George P. Fletcher
The Fault of Not Knowing, George P. Fletcher
The Identity of Legal Systems, Joseph Raz
The Individualization of Excusing Conditions, George P. Fletcher
The Law of War and Its Pathologies, George P. Fletcher
The Meaning of Morality, George P. Fletcher
The Metamorphosis of Larceny, George P. Fletcher
The Myth of Instrumental Rationality, Joseph Raz
The Nature and Function of Criminal Theory, George P. Fletcher
The Place of Victims in the Theory of Retribution, George P. Fletcher
The Presumption of Innocence in the Soviet Union, George P. Fletcher
The Problem of Authority: Revisiting the Service Conception, Joseph Raz
The Relevance of Coherence, Joseph Raz
The Right and the Reasonable, George P. Fletcher
The Right Deed for the Wrong Reason: A Reply to Mr. Robinson, George P. Fletcher
The Storrs Lectures: Liberals and Romantics at War: The Problem of Collective Guilt, George P. Fletcher
The Sympathetic Discriminator: Mental Illness, Hedonic Costs, and the ADA, Elizabeth F. Emens
Transparency and Determinacy in Common Law Adjucation: A Philosophical Defense of Explanatory Economic Analysis, Jody S. Kraus
Truth in Codification, George P. Fletcher
Two Kinds of Legal Rules: A Comparative Study of Burden-of-Persuasion Practices in Criminal Cases, George P. Fletcher
Two Modes of Legal Thought Symposium on Legal Scholarship: Its Nature and Purposes, George P. Fletcher
What is Punishment Imposed For?, George P. Fletcher
Book Reviews
A Morality Fit for Humans, Joseph Raz
Dworkin: A New Link in the Chain, Joseph Raz
Promises in Morality and Law, Joseph Raz
Essays
From Langdell to Law and Economics: Two Conceptions of Stare Decisis in Contract Law, Jody S. Kraus
In God's Image: The Religious Imperative of Equality Under Law, George P. Fletcher
Responses/Comments
Facing Up: A Reply, Joseph Raz
Working Papers
About Morality and the Nature of Law, Joseph Raz
Agency and Luck, Joseph Raz
Aggravating Youth: Roper v. Simmons and Age Discrimination, Elizabeth F. Emens
A Hedgehog's Unity of Value, Joseph Raz
Attachments and Associated Reasons, Joseph Raz
Being in the World, Joseph Raz
Can Moral Principles Change?, Joseph Raz
Comments on the Morality of Freedom, Joseph Raz
Compulsory Sexuality, Elizabeth F. Emens
Contract Design and the Structure of Contractual Intent, Jody S. Kraus and Robert E. Scott
Death in Our Life, Joseph Raz
Disabling Attitudes: U.S. Disability Law and the ADA Amendments Act, Elizabeth F. Emens
Driverless Cars and the Much Delayed Tort Law Revolution, Andrzej Rapaczynski
Human Rights in the Emerging World Order, Joseph Raz
Identity and Social Bonds, Joseph Raz
Incorporation By Law, Joseph Raz
Intention and Motivation, Joseph Raz
Intention and Value, Joseph Raz
Is There a Reason to Keep Promises?, Joseph Raz
Legal Determinacy and Moral Justification, Jody S. Kraus
Normative Powers (revised), Joseph Raz
Normativity: The Place of Reasoning, Joseph Raz
On Dancy’s Account of Practical Reasoning, Joseph Raz
On Normativity and Responsibility: Responses, Joseph Raz
On The Guise of the Good, Joseph Raz
On the Value of Distributional Equality, Joseph Raz
On Waldron's Critique of Raz on Human Rights, Joseph Raz
Reasoning with Rules, Joseph Raz
Reason, Reasons and Normativity, Joseph Raz
Reasons: Explanatory and Normative, Joseph Raz
Reasons: Practical and Adaptive, Joseph Raz
Rescuing Jerry from (Basic) Principles, Joseph Raz
Responsibility and the Negligence Standard, Joseph Raz
Shape Stops Story, Elizabeth F. Emens
Susan Wolf on the Meaning of Life: A Review, Joseph Raz
The Argument from Justice, or How Not to Reply to Legal Positivism, Joseph Raz
The Correspondence of Contract and Promise, Jody S. Kraus
The Democratic Deficit, Joseph Raz
The Future of State Sovereignty, Joseph Raz
The Guise of the Bad, Joseph Raz
The Methodological Commitments of Contemporary Contract Theory, Jody S. Kraus
The Moral Significance of Sacrifice, Joseph Raz
The Practice of Value – Reply, Joseph Raz