Dr. Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Professor Leiter is currently John Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values. He taught from 1995 to 2008 at the University of Texas at Austin. Before this, he taught for two years in the law school at the University of San Diego, and was also a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. At Texas, Leiter was Founder and Director of the Law and Philosophy Program. He was also the youngest chair-holder in the history of the law school at Texas. He has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, University College London, and University of Chicago Law School. He edited the journal Legal Theory for seven years and is also editor of the Routledge Philosophers, a new series of introductions to major philosophers. His main publications include: The Future for Philosophy (2006), Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy (2007) (translation to Spanish underway in the Marcial Pons' Philosophy and Law collection), Nietzsche and Morality (2007), The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy (Oxford Handbooks) (2008).

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