Brian Leiter
John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values
1111 East 60th Street, Room 425
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773 702-0953
email: bleiter@uchicago.edu

HONORS & AWARDS

Lectureships and Keynotes

• Fresco Lectures, Faculty of Law, University of Genoa, Italy, March 2008
• Dunbar Lecture in Law and Philosophy, School of Law and Department of Philosophy, University of Mississippi, Oxford, March 2008.
• Keynote Address, Graduate Conference, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, November 2006.
• 'Or 'Emet Lecture, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, March 2006.
• Keynote Address, Conference on "Nietzsche and Ethics," annual meeting of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain, University of Sussex, UK, September 2004.
• Keynote Address, Inaugural Conference of the Institute for Law & Philosophy, Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, NJ, June 2004.

Awards & Fellowships

• Visiting Fellow, John Fleming Centre for Advancement of Legal Research, College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, August 2007.
• Finalist (for Nietzsche on Morality), Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards, University of Texas, Austin (award for best book published by a UT Austin faculty member in the prior year; there are 3 finalists), 2004.
• Harold Gill Reuschlein Distinguished Visiting Chair at Villanova Law School for 2003-04 (declined).
• "Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered" (Ethics, 2001) chosen as "one of the ten best articles in philosophy" to appear in 2001 by The Philosopher's Annual.
• Awarded the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law, University of Texas, Austin, 2002 (youngest faculty member in the history of the law school to be awarded an endowed chair).
• Research Internship, Graduate School, University of Texas, Austin, 2000-2001 (fellowship for incoming Ph.D. student, awarded on a competitive basis to graduate faculty to use as a tool for recruiting top students to Austin).
• Best Research Paper Award, University of Texas, Austin, 1997-1998 (for "Nietzsche and the Morality Critics," published in Ethics [1997]; one of two papers honored in a university-wide competition).
• Awarded the Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professorship in Law, University of Texas, Austin, 1997 (first faculty member in the history of the school to be awarded an endowed professorship simultaneous with receiving tenure).
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1992 - 1993.
• Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1992 - 1993 (declined).
• Nelson Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Winter Term, 1991 - 1992.
• Regents Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1988 - 1991.
• Certificate of Merit (as best student in class on "Legal Realism and the Critical Legal Studies Movement"), University of Michigan Law School, 1985.

Teaching Evaluations & Honors

• Average instructor rating of 4.6 (out of 5.0) for all large classes over roughly the last decade.
• "Professor of the Year": elected by the student body, University of San Diego School of Law, 1994 - 1995.
• "Outstanding Teaching Assistant": nominated by the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991 - 1992.

• Presses (since 2005): Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press. (Before 2005: CUP, OUP, Illinois, Routledge, Oneworld.)
• Journals (since 2005): Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, Ethics. (Before 2005: Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, Science in Context, European Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly.)
• Departments (Philosophy): Central European University (Hungary); University of South Florida; Arizona State University. (Many others informally.)
• Law Schools: Emory University.
• Tenure/Promotion/Reappointment/Senior Lateral Appointment Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University; Birkbeck College, University of London (Philosophy) (twice); University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Law); Brigham Young University (Law); University College London (Philosophy); Stanford University (Philosophy) (twice); University of Warwick (UK) (Philosophy); University of Auckland (NZ) (Philosophy); George Mason University (Law) (twice); Colgate University (Philosophy); Seattle Pacific University (Philosophy); Brown University (Philosophy); Johns Hopkins University (Philosophy); McMaster University (Philosophy); University of California, Los Angeles (Law).
• Foundations/Fellowships: American Council of Learned Societies (reviewer for philosophy proposals and law proposals, 2003-05).

• Advisory Board, Center for Naturalism, Somerville, MA, 2005-present (with Paul Bloom [Yale], Daniel Dennett [Tufts], Owen Flanagan [Duke], and others).
• Steering Committee, annual Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference, 2003-present (with Larry Alexander, Jules Coleman, John Gardner, Stephen Perry, Joseph Raz, Jeremy Waldron, and [since 2005] Seana Shiffrin).
• Member, American Philosophical Association, in the early 1990s, and 2002-present.
• Program Committee, North American Nietzsche Society, 1998-2001
• Secretary, Jurisprudence Section of the Association of American Law Schools, 1996.

• Director and Foundenter, Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values, University of Chicago, 2008-present
• Tenure Committee, Law School, University of Chicago, 2008-2009
• Director and Founder, Law and Philosophy Program, University of Texas, Austin, 1998-2008.
• Dean Search Committee, Law School, University of Texas, Austin, 2006 (by appointment of Provost).
• Chair, Law & Philosophy Program Search Committee, University of Texas, Austin, 2004-05, 2006-07.
• Chair, Graduates Studies Committee, School of Law, University of Texas, Austin, 1999-present
• Advisor, Persons Interested in Teaching Law, School of Law, University of Texas, Austin, 1996-1998, 1999-present.
• Appointments Committee (incl. Lateral Appointments Subcommittee), School of Law, University of Texas, Austin, 1996-1998, 1999-2004, 2006-2007 (Chair, Appointments, 1997-98; Chair, Laterals Subcommittee, 1999-
  2000).
• Long-Term Planning Committee, School of Law, University of Texas, Austin, 2001-2002 (Chair, Working Group on Faculty Hiring and Retention).
• Faculty Advisor, Student Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, 2000-present.
• Admissions Committee, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin, 1999-2001, 2002-2004
• Search Committee, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin, 1997-1998, 1999-2000.
• Placement Committee, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin, 1997-1998.
• Interdisciplinary Issues Committee, School of Law, University of Texas, Austin, 1997-1998
• Library Committee, School of Law, University of Texas, Austin, 1995-1997 (Chair, Fall 1996)
• Standards Committee, School of Law, University of Texas, Austin, 1995-1997
• Admissions Committee, School of Law, University of San Diego, 1993-1995

• Editor and author, The Philosophical Gourmet Report, annually since 1989
• Author & Publisher, A Ranking of U.S. Law Schools by Educational Quality, annually since 1997-2000, periodically since 2000
• Litigation Associate, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York, NY, 1987-88 (admitted to the New York Bar, 1988 [now inactive]).