WILLIAM A. EDMUNDSON
Georgia State University College of Law,
Urban Life Building, Room 458, 140 Decatur Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4037
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ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Regents’ Professor, since 2010; Professor of Philosophy, since 2001; Professor of Law, since 1997; Associate Professor of Law, 1991-96; Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, 1990-91
University College, Oxford; H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow; Oxford University Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Law; Trinity term, 2006
University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi; Assistant Professor of Law, 1989-90
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
An Introduction to Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; 2d ed. 2012; Portuguese ed., Uma introdução aos direitos, E. Ferriera E Silva & N. Eichemburg, trans. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006)
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law, co-edited with Martin P. Golding (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999)
Three Anarchical Fallacies: An Essay on Political Authority (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, paperback ed. 2007) A Choice “Outstanding Academic Book” for 1999
Political Authority, Moral Powers, and the Intrinsic Value of Obedience; Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 2010 30: 179-91
Pluralism, Intransitivity, Incoherence; In Mark White, ed., Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics (Cambridge 2009)
Schauer on Precedent in the U.S. Supreme Court, Georgia State University Law Review, vol. 24, no. 2, Winter 2007, 403-13
The Virtue of Law-Abidance; Philosophers’ Imprint, vol. 6, no. 4 (Dec. 2006) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0006.004
Internal Reasons and External Requirements; In Barbara Montero and Mark White, eds., Economics and Mind (Routledge, 2006)
“First Force” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy www.jesp.org, (2005), vol. 1, no. 3
Comments on Richard Arneson’s “Joel Feinberg and the Justification of Hard Paternalism” Legal Theory 11:286-91 (2005)
State of the Art: The Duty to Obey the Law, Legal Theory 10:215-59 (2004)
Privacy, in The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
Locke and Load, Law and Philosophy 22:195-216 (2003)
Afterword: Proportionality and the Difference Death Makes,Criminal Justice Ethics 21:40-43 (2002)
Social Meaning, Compliance Conditions, and Law's Claim to Authority, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 15:51-67 (2002)
Legitimate Authority Without Political Obligation, Law and Philosophy 17:43-60 (1998)
Is Law Coercive? Legal Theory 1:81-111 (1995)
The Antinomy of Coherence and Determinacy, Iowa Law Review 82:1-20 (1996)
Rethinking Exclusionary Reasons, Law and Philosophy 12:329-43 (1993)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Invited speaker, International Colloquium on Political Authority and Obligation, June 15-17, 2011; Amsterdam, the Netherlands, sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science
Keynote speaker, 3rd Postgraduate Conference in Law and Philosophy, Stirling University, Scotland; May 13-14, 2010
Presented “Political Authority, Moral Powers, and the Intrinsic Value of Obedience,” Institute for Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, February 3, 2009
Presented “Authority and Obligation” with David Estlund; Association of American Law Schools, San Diego, CA, January 2009
Conference on the Work of Joel Feinberg, Georgia State University; Commentator, April 1-2, 2005
Privacy Colloquium, University of Utah; Presented “Privacy as Right to Do Wrong”; April 1-3, 2004
Transvision 2003: The Adaptable Human Body, Yale University; Presented “Posterity and Embodiment”; June 29, 2003
SELECTED EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law; General Editor, 2003-
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Subject Area Editor, 2011-
Law and Philosophy: An International Journal for Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy; Member, Editorial Board, 2001-
American Philosophical Association; Member of the Committee on Philosophy and Law, 1999-2002
EDUCATION
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; J.D., with honors, 1985; Order of the Coif; Article Editor, Duke Law Journal
University of California, Berkeley, California; Ph.D., 1982, in Philosophy
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; B.A., 1972, in Philosophy and Religion