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Oxford University Press has published Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law, edited by John Oberdiek and Notre Dame’s Paul Miller. The volume comprises twenty-one original papers by leading private law theory scholars, including Rutgers’ own John Oberdiek and Matthew Shapiro, on a diverse array of topics. The papers were workshopped at a conference hosted … Continue reading Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law…

The Institute is pleased to welcome Matthew Shapiro to the Rutgers Law School faculty. After completing his D.Phil at Oxford, where he was supervised by John Gardner, and his JD from Yale, Matt clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts on the United States Supreme Court. Matt’s research focuses on civil procedure and its theory and … Continue reading Welcome Matthew Shapiro…

Adil Haque’s book, Law and Morality at War (Oxford 2017), was the focus of a symposium in Ethics, featuring articles by Jonathan Parry and Daniel Viehoff, Christopher Findlay, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, and Helen Frowe, as well as a reply by Haque. The symposium is here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/et/2019/129/4#/toc/et/129/4

 Alec Walen was interviewed by Richard Marshall at 3:16 about his new book, The Mechanics of Claims and Permissible Killing in War (Oxford) here: https://316am.site123.me/articles/on-permissible-killing     

John Oberdiek, together with Paul Miller (Notre Dame), will be editing a new series with Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, which will publish leading work in private law theory. He was co-host of a workshop in London for contributors, including Shyam Balganesh (Penn), Mindy Chen-Wishart (Oxford) and Victoria Dixon (Oxford), Larissa … Continue reading London workshop for John Oberdiek’s new Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory series…