Andrei Marmor

Maurice Jones Jr. Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy

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Andrei Marmor is director of the USC Center for Law & Philosophy. He teaches Law, Language and Ethics. He also is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, an on-line peer-reviewed journal in moral, political and legal philosophy.

A prolific author on issues concerning the relations between law morality and politics, Professor Marmor has written Interpretation and Legal Theory, (Oxford University Press, 1992; Hart Publishing, 2005), Positive Law & Objective Values (Oxford University Press 2001), Law in the Age of Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2007) and numerous journal articles.

Professor Marmor earned his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy, as well as his LL.B., from Tel Aviv University and earned his DPhil from Oxford University. He was a professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and taught as a visiting professor at several universities before joining the USC Law and Philosophy faculties in 2002.

Websites

Professor Marmor's home page www.law.usc.edu/marmor

Professor Marmor's SSRN page http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=282828

Works in progress

• Philosophy of Law, The Princeton Series in the Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy.
• Editor (with Scott Soames), Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law, Oxford University Press.
• Editor, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law.

Books

• Social Conventions: From Language to Law, Princeton Monographs in Philosophy (H. Frankfurt ed.), (Princeton University Press, 2009).
• Law in the Age of Pluralism, (Oxford University Press, 2007).
• Interpretation and Legal Theory, 2d revised edition (Hart Publishing, 2005).
• Positive Law and Objective Values (Oxford University Press, 2001).
• Law and Interpretation: Essays in Legal Philosophy (editor) (Oxford University Press, 1995) (paperback edition, 1997). [Reprinted in 1998.]
• Portugese translation by L.C. Borges: Direito e interpretação: ensaios de Filosofia do direito (Martin Fontes, 2000).
• Chinese translation (Beijing Press, 2006).
• Interpretation and Legal Theory (Oxford University Press, 1992) (paperback edition, 1994).
• Spanish translation by M. M. Hurtado: Interpretación y teoría del derecho (Gedisa Editorial, 2001).

Contributions to Books

•  ‘The Ideal of the Rule of Law,’ forthcoming in the Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (D. Patterson ed., 2nd ed.)
• ‘Should We Value Legislative Integrity?’ in R Bauman & T Kahana (eds.), The Least Examined Branch, The Role of Legislatures in the Constitutional State, Cambridge University Press, (2006), pp. 125-138.
• “Entitlement to Land and the Right of Return: An Embarrassing Challenge for Liberal Zionism.” In Justice in Time: Responding to Historical Injustice (L. Meyer, ed.) (Nomos, 2004).
• “The Intrinsic Value of Economic Equality.” In Rights, Culture, and the Law: Themes from the Legal and Political Philosophy of Joseph Raz (Lukas H. Meyer and others, eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2003).
• “Exclusive Legal Positivism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Coleman and Shapiro, eds.) (2002).
• “An Essay on the Objectivity of Law.” In Analyzing Law: New Essays in Legal Theory (Brian Bix, ed.) (Oxford University Press, 1998).
• “Three Concepts of Objectivity.” In Law and Interpretation: Essays in Legal Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1995).

Articles

• “The Pragmatics of Legal Language,” 21 Ratio Juris (2008), 423.
• “What Does the Law Say? Semantics and Pragmatics in Statutory Language,’”(D. Canale and G. Tuzet eds.), Analisi e diritto 127 (2007). Reprinted in Semantica del Derecho, Revista Juridica Estudiantil, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico, Ano 2/numero 12, 21.
• “Is Literal Meaning Conventional?” 27 Topoi (2008), 11-113.
• “Deep Conventions,” 74 Philosophy & Phenomenological Research (2007), 586-610.
• “How Law is Like Chess,” 12 Legal Theory, (2006), 347-371.
• “The Case Against Moral Luck,” with David Enoch, 26 Law & Philosophy 405-43 (2007).
• “Are Constitutions Legitimate?” 20 The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 69-94 (2007). Reprinted in I Problema, Anuario de Filosofia y Teoria del Derecho, 73 (2007).
• “Legal Positivism: Still Descriptive and Morally Neutral,” 26 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, (2006), 683-704.
• “The Immorality of Textualism,” in Theories of Statutory Interpretation, Symposium Issue, 38 Loyola Law Review, (2005), 2063.
• “Authority, Equality, and Democracy.” 18 Ratio Juris (2005), 315-345.
• “On the Right to Private Property and Entitlement to One’s Income” (Symposium). 18 The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 69 (2005).
• “Should Like Cases Be Treated Alike?” 11 Legal Theory 37 (2005).
• “The Rule of Law and Limits.” 23 Law and Philosophy 1 (2004).
• “Do We Have a Right to Common Goods?” 14 The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 213 (2001).
• “Equality and Minority Cultures.” 3 Democratic Culture (2000).
• “The Separation Thesis and the Limits of Interpretation.” 12 The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 135 (1999).
• “Legal Conventionalism.” 4 Legal Theory 509 (1998). [Reprinted in Hart’s Postscript: Essays on the Postscript to “The Concept of Law” (Jules L. Coleman, ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2001).]
• “On the Limits of Rights.” 16 Law and Philosophy 1 (1997).
• “On Convention.” 107 Synthese 349 (1996).
• “Authorities and Persons.” 1 Legal Theory 337 (1995).
• “Three Concepts of Objectivity.” 19 Tel Aviv University Law Review 161 (1994).
• “Coherence, Holism, and Interpretation: The Epistemic Foundations of Dworkin’s Legal Theory.” 10 Law and Philosophy 383 (1991).
• “No Easy Cases?” 3 The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 61 (1990). [Reprinted in Wittgenstein and Legal Theory (Dennis Patterson, ed.) (Westview Press 1992).
• “Right-Based Justification of Punishment.” 22 Israel Law Review 97 (1987).

Articles in Hebrew

• “Judicial Review in Israel.” 4 Mishpat Umimshal-- Law and Government in Israel 133 (1997).
• “On Legislative Authority and Unintentional Legislation: A Reply to Professor Waldron.” 21 Tel Aviv University Law Review 63 (1997).
• “On the Limits of Democracy: Israeli Politics in the Aftermath of Rabin’s Assassination.” The Yearbook on Israeli Law 1 (1996-1997).
• “Postcript to the Concept of Law.” 27 Mishpatim: The Hebrew University Law Review 91 (1996).
• “The Frozen Embryos of the Nachmani Couple: A Reply to Chaim Gans.” 19 Tel Aviv University Law Review 433 (1995).
• “Legislative Intent and the Authority of Law.” 16 Tel Aviv University Law Review 593 (1991).

Book Reviews

• Law and Disagreement and The Dignity of Legislation, by Jeremy Waldron. 112 Ethics 410 (January 2002).

Other Works

• “The Pure Theory of Law.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (peer-reviewed web-based encyclopedia) (2002).
• “The Nature of Law.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (peer-reviewed web-based encyclopedia) (2001).

Dissertation

• Interpretation in Legal Theory. D.Phil. dissertation at Oxford University (Balliol College), 1990.