ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Professor of Philosophy, George State University, 2001-

Professor of Philosophy, The George Washington University, 1997-01

Associate Professor of Philosophy, The George Washington

University, 1987-1997

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The George Washington

University, 1985-87

Fellow in Law and Philosophy, Harvard Law School, 1984-85

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University of

Pennsylvania, 1981-85

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green

State University, 1977-81

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Philosophy of Law; Political Philosophy; Philosophy and Social

Policy; Applied Ethics; Race and Gender

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; Philosophy of Social Science; History of Philosophy; Ethical Theory; Logic

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critique

Princeton University Press, 1990 (paper 1993)

Arguing About Law: An Introduction to Legal Philosophy

Wadsworth, second edition, 2001

Articles

“Democratic Self-Determination and the Disenfranchisement

of Felons,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, forthcoming.

“Nationalist and Internationalist Conceptions of Constitutional Interpretation: Human Rights and the Death Penalty,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law, forthcoming.

“The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality,” in Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, Wellman and Cohen, eds. (Blackwell Publishers, 2005) pp. 223-35.

“A Defense of International Criminal Law,” Ethics 115 (October 2004), 35-67. (coauthored with C.H. Wellman)

“Equality and Expression: The Radical Paradox,” Social Philosophy and Policy, 21 (2004), 1-22.

"Breathing Life into a Dead Argument: G.E. Moore and the Open Question,” Philosophical Studies 117 (2004), 395-408.

"Civil Rights", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2003 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =

http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2003/entries/civil-rights.

“Freedom of Speech and Religion,” in H. LaFollette, ed. The Oxford Handbook for Practical Ethics, (Oxford U.P., 2002), pp. 358-86.

“Speech Codes and Expressive Harm,” in H. LaFollette, ed. Ethics in Practice 2^nd ed. (Blackwell, 2002), pp. 376-84.

“Policy, Principle, and Incrementalism: Dworkin’s Jurisprudence of Race,” Journal of Ethics 5: 3 (2001), 241-61. (with a reply by

Dworkin)

“The Democratic Legitimacy of Bias Crime Laws: Public Reason and the Political Process,” Law and Philosophy 20: 2 (2001), 141-73.

“Expressive Meaning, Race, and the Law: The Racial Gerrymandering Cases,” Legal Theory 5 (1999), 75-99.

“Race and Democracy: The Controversy Over Racial Vote Dilution,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 27: 3 (Summer 1998), 175-201.

“Toleration as a Form of Bias,” in Philosophy, Religion,and the Question of Intolerance, D. Ambuel, ed., SUNY Press, 1997,

pp. 230-45.

“Making Sense of Sexual Harassment Law,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 25: 1 (Winter 1996), 36-64. [reprinted in Human Sexuality, Dartmouth Publishing, and in Moral Issues in Business, Wadsworth.]

“In Defense of Enlightenment Liberalism: A Reply to Galston,” Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy 16: 2 (Spring 1996), 13-18.

“Speech Acts and Hate Speech,” in M. Sellers, ed., An Ethical Education, Berg Publishers, 1994, pp. 127-141.

“Liberalism and Campus Hate Speech: A Philosophical Examination,” Ethics 103 (January 1993), 302-317. [reprinted in Morality Matters, McGraw-Hill; Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy, McGraw-Hill; Crime and Punishment, Jones and Bartlett; Campus Wars, Westview; Ethical Theory and Society, Hartcourt and Brace; Our Times: Reading from Recent Periodicals for Writers, Bradford; Controversies in Constitutional Law, Garland]

“Fissures in the Integrity of Law’s Empire,” A. Hunt, ed., Reading Dworkin Critically, Berg Publishers, 1992, pp. 157-86.

“Glory, Respect, and Violent Conflict,” P. Caws, ed., The Causes

of Quarrel, Beacon Press, 1989, pp. 114-27.

“Power, Politics, and Economics,” W. Samuels, ed., Fundamentals of the Economic Role of Government, Greenwood Press, 1989, pp. 9-16.

“Legal Realism, Critical Legal Studies and Dworkin,”

Philosophy and Public Affairs, 15: 3 (Summer 1986), 205-235.

[reprinted in White and Patterson, Introduction to Philosophy of Law, Oxford U.P.; Feinberg and Gross, Philosophy of Law (4^th and 5^th eds.), Wadsworth; Shiell, Legal Philosophy, Harcourt, Brace; Arthur and Shaw, Readings in the Philosophy of Law (3^rd ed.], Prentice-Hall; Adams, Philosophical Problems in the Law, (1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd eds.), Wadsworth.

“The Legacy of Legal Realism” Legal Studies Forum X: 2

(1986), 167-184.

“Nozick’s Theory of Value and Its Implications,” Southern

Journal of Philosophy 12: 2 (Summer 1984), 137-153.

“Pragmatism and Applied Ethics,” American Philosophical

Quarterly 20: 2 (April 1983), 227-235.

“Legal Entrapment,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 12: 1

(Winter 1983), 51-69 (coauthor: S. Lee).

“Rawls’ Pragmatic Turn,” Journal of Social Philosophy

14: 3 (1983), 8-12.

“John Dewey and Contemporary Normative Ethics,” Meta-

philosophy 13: 2 (April 1982), 149-160 [reprinted in Tiles, Critical Assessments of John Dewey].

“Justice, Epistemology, and Ethical Compromise,”

Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy. Vol. IV:

Social Justice (1982), 99-110.

“Is Marxism Utopian?,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 8

(Winter 1981), 387-403.

“Meaning, Truth, and Evidence,” Southern Journal of

Philosophy 18: 2 (Summer 1980), 113-122 (coauthor: Bradie).

“Abortion and the Indigent,” Journal of Social Philosophy

11: 1 (January 1980), 5-9.

HONORS/AWARDS/GRANTS

NEH grant to co-direct (with C.H. Wellman) a summer seminar for college and university teachers; topic: Political Obligation Democratic Legitimacy, and Human Rights (2005)

The Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence, George Washington University, 1996

Liberal Arts Fellowship in Law, Harvard Law School,

1984-85

Research Grant from The Center for Dewey Studies

to study Pragmatism and Contemporary Legal Philosophy,

1984-85

Stipend from NEH to participate in summer seminar on the

Role of Courts, J. Grossman, Director, 1983

Stipend from NEH to participate in summer seminar on

Marxism. M. Fisk, Director, 1980

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate: Introduction to Philosophy; Ethics; Social and Political Philosophy; Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; Theories of History; Philosophy of Law; Communism, Fascism, and Democracy; Logic; Metaphysics; Humanities; Honors Introduction to Western Civilization

Graduate: Seminar in Ethics; Seminar in Legal Philosophy; Philosophy of Social Science; Philosophy, Law, and Social Policy; Marxism; Pragmatism

SELECTED PAPERS/COMMENTS READ TO PROFESSIONAL GROUPS/CONFERENCES

“Collective Self-Determination and the Issue of Felon Disenfranchisement,” APA- Eastern Division (group session),

2003

“Religious Exemptions to Antidiscrimination Law,” Georgia Philosophical Society, and Colloquia at Washington U.-St. Louis and Emory University, 2002

“Comments on N. Sturgeon,” Conference on G. E. Moore’s Principia Ethica, Georgia State U., April 2002

“The Democratic Legitimacy of Bias Crime Laws,” Georgia State U. Conference on Hate Crime Legislation,” 2000

“Keeping the Sex in Sexual Harassment: A Reply to Vicki Schultz,” APA-Pacific Division, symposium session, 2000

“Racial Prejudice and Vote Dilution: The Meaning of Equal Electoral Opportunity,” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 1998

“Expressive Meaning, Race, and the Law: The Racial Gerrymandering Cases,” National Law Center-GWU, 1997.

“In Defense of Enlightenment Liberalism: A Reply to Galston,” GWU, 1996

“On the Idea of Sexual Harassment,” Bowling Green State University, 1995

“Toleration as a Form of Bias,” Mary Washington College, 1993

“Power and Agency,” American Philosophical Association-Eastern, 1993

“Positivism and Its Critics,” Association for Psychiatry and Philosophy, 1993

“Speech Acts and Hate Speech,” APA-Eastern, 1992

“Speech Acts, Hate Speech, and Ethical Values,” Hoffberger

Center for Professional Ethics, University of Baltimore School of Law, 1992

“Critical Legal Studies,” American University Philosophy Club, 1992

“Comments on J. Reiman, Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy,” Washington Philosophy Club, 1990

“Law and Social Reality,” GWU Human Sciences Seminar, 1990

“Critical Legal Studies v. Liberalism: Law, Deception,

and Social Reality, ”APA-Eastern, 1989

SERVICE TO PROFESSION/MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

APA Committee on Philosophy and Law (2002-present)

Reviewer of manuscripts submissions, Social Theory and Practice, 2000-2004

External evaluator of Philosophy Dept., Brooklyn College,CUNY, 2000

Outside reviewer on tenure decisions for Loyola Law School and Georgia State University Law School

Reviewer of book manuscripts in legal and political philosophy for Princeton U.P., Oxford U.P., Penn State U.P., U. of Kansas Press, and Routledge.

Board of Advisory Editors, Public Affairs Quarterly, 1991-1994

Series Editor for Berg Publishers: State, Society and Law, 1991-1996

Session Chair, “Legal Philosophy,” APA-Eastern 1991

Member of: American Philosophical Association, American Society for Legal and Political Philosophy, International Association for Philosophy of Law