Brian Leiter

Brian Leiter
Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values
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Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values.  His areas of interest include Marx, Nietzsche, philosophy of law (esp. general jurisprudence, and philosophical issues about free speech and religion), and moral psychology/metaethics.  He is the author of Nietzsche on Morality (Routledge, 2002; 2nd ed. 2015); Naturalizing Jurisprudence (Oxford, 2007), Why Tolerate Religion? (Princeton, 2013), Moral Psychology with Nietzsche (Oxford, 2019), and (with Jaime Edwards PhD ’18) Marx (Routledge, 2024).  He is co-editor of the series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law and also co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy (2007).