20 Facts About Brian Leiter

Brian Leiter taught from 1995 to 2008 at the University of Texas School of Law, where he was the founder and director of the Law and Philosophy Program.

Brian Leiter joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2008.

Brian Leiter has been a visiting professor at universities in the United States and Europe, including Yale University and Oxford University.

Brian Leiter is founding editor of a book series entitled Routledge Philosophers, and of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law.

Brian Leiter was the founder and for 25 years the editor of the Philosophical Gourmet Report, an influential but controversial ranking of philosophy PhD programs in the English-speaking world.

Brian Leiter taught for two years at the University of San Diego School of Law, and was a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, before joining the faculty at the University of Texas School of Law in 1995, where he taught until 2008.

At Texas, Brian Leiter was the founder and Director of the Law and Philosophy Program.

Brian Leiter has been a visiting professor of law or philosophy at Yale Law School, University College London, University of Chicago Law School, University of Paris X-Nanterre, University of California, San Diego, and Oxford University.

Brian Leiter edited the journal Legal Theory from 2000 to 2008, and is editor of the Routledge Philosophers, a series of introductions to major philosophers, and of Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law.

In legal philosophy, Brian Leiter has offered a reinterpretation of American Legal Realism as embodying a prescient philosophical naturalism and a defense of what he called "naturalized jurisprudence" in his book Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy.

Brian Leiter has written a considerable amount on the philosophical work of Friedrich Nietzsche, including an article for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

In particular, Brian Leiter defended a reading of Nietzsche as a philosophical naturalist in his Nietzsche on Morality and in later papers, including one with Joshua Knobe on "The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology" in Nietzsche and Morality.

Brian Leiter has published work on meta-ethics, social epistemology, the law of evidence, and on philosophers Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, and Ronald Dworkin.

In 1989, while he was a graduate student Brian Leiter made a list of what he believed to be the top 25 graduate philosophy programs in the United States.

In 2002, nearly 300 philosophers signed an open letter calling on Brian Leiter to stop producing the PGR.

Brian Leiter subsequently retained a lawyer to sue the organizers of the 2014 protest for defamation.

Brian Leiter has edited a ranking of US law schools, which The Washington Post describes as "well-known", and was hired by Maclean's magazine in Canada to produce a ranking of Canadian law schools.

Brian Leiter is a blogger, running three blogs, one on philosophy, one on law, and one on Nietzsche.

Brian Leiter has written critiques of journalists and philosophers, including Carlin Romano, Thomas Nagel, Leon Wieseltier, and Paul Campos.

Brian Leiter defended Steven Salaita, both online and on television, and Rebecca Tuvel, the philosopher criticized during the Hypatia transracialism controversy.