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

Academic Appointments

University of Chicago
2008-present, [Chair to be determined] Professor of Law and Director Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values

Fall 2006 Visiting Professor of Law

The University of Texas at Austin
2006-2008 Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law and Professor of Philosophy

2002-2006 Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law and Professor of Philosophy

2000-2002 Charles I. Francis Professor in Law and Professor of Philosophy

1997-2000 Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor in Law and Professor of Philosophy

1995-1997 Assistant Professor of Law and Philosophy (tenure-track in Law)

University of San Diego
1993-1995 Assistant Professor of Law (tenure-track)

University College London
2001-2006 Visiting Professor of Philosophy (honorary appointment, with teaching at various intervals)

Yale University
1998-1999 Visiting Professor of Law

University of California, San Diego
Spring 1995 Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Areas of Specialization: Jurisprudence/Philosophy of Law; Ethics; Continental Philosophy; Law of Evidence.

Areas of Competence: Social and Political Theory (Anglo-American and Continental); Metaphysics & Epistemology (esp. objectivity, naturalism, realism/anti-realism, mental causation, free will, naturalized epistemology and social epistemology)

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1984-1987, 1988-1993
J.D. cum laude 1987

Ph.D. in Philosophy 1995. Thesis: “Nietzsche and the Critique of Morality.” Advisor: Peter Railton.

Princeton University, 1980-1984
A.B. cum laude in Philosophy 1984