16 Facts About Jeremy Waldron

Jeremy Waldron is a New Zealand legal philosopher.

Jeremy Waldron holds a University Professorship at the New York University School of Law, is affiliated with the New York University Department of Philosophy, and was formerly the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford University.

Jeremy Waldron is regarded as one of the world's leading legal and political philosophers.

Jeremy Waldron taught legal and political philosophy at Otago, Lincoln College, Oxford, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Berkeley Law, Princeton University, and Columbia Law School.

Jeremy Waldron has been a visiting professor at Cornell, Otago, and Columbia Universities.

Jeremy Waldron gave the second series of Seeley Lectures at Cambridge University in 1996, the 1999 Carlyle Lectures at Oxford, the spring 2000 University Lecture at Columbia Law School, the Wesson Lectures at Stanford University in 2004, the Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School in 2007, and the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2015.

Jeremy Waldron was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

In 2005, Jeremy Waldron received an honorary doctorate from the University of Otago, his alma mater.

Jeremy Waldron was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.

Jeremy Waldron has written extensively on the analysis and justification of private property and on the political and legal philosophy of John Locke.

Jeremy Waldron is an opponent of judicial review of legislation, and of torture, both of which he believes to be in tension with democratic principles.

Jeremy Waldron believes that hate speech should not be protected by the First Amendment.

Jeremy Waldron has criticised analytic legal philosophy for its failure to engage with the questions addressed by political theory.

Jeremy Waldron has been working on this topic since he gave the Tanner Lectures on the subject in 2009, published in 2012 as Dignity, Rank and Rights.

In contrast to Jeremy Waldron and Ackerman, Dworkin was a long-time advocate of a moral reading of the United States Constitution, whose lines of support he sees as strongly associated with enhanced versions of judicial review in the federal government.

Jeremy Waldron asserts that there is no inherent advantage to a judiciary's protection of rights than to a legislature's if there is a broadly democratic political system with appropriate suffrage and process, there is a system of courts somewhat insulated from popular pressure and engaged in judicial review, there is a general commitment to rights, and there is disagreement as to the content and extent of rights.