Matthew Henry Kramer was born on 9 June 1959 and is an American philosopher, currently Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
11 Facts About Matthew Kramer
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Matthew Kramer writes mainly in the areas of metaethics, normative ethics, legal philosophy, and political philosophy.
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Matthew Kramer has been Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy since 2000.
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Matthew Kramer has been teaching at Cambridge University and at Churchill College since 1994.
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Matthew Kramer has received several major research awards including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.
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Matthew Kramer is an Advisory Editor for the University of Bologna Law Review.
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Matthew Kramer was a visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in April 2009, and at Tel Aviv University in March 2012.
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An inclusive legal positivist, Matthew Kramer argues in his book Where Law and Morality Meet that moral principles can enter into the law of any jurisdiction.
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Matthew Kramer contends that legal officials can invoke moral principles as laws for resolving disputes, and that they can invoke them as threshold tests which ordinary laws must satisfy.
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In opposition to many other theorists, Matthew Kramer argues that these functions of moral principles are consistent with all the essential characteristics of any legal system.
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Matthew Kramer is a leading proponent of the legal positivist argument that law and morality are separable, arguing against the position of natural-law theory, which portrays legal requirements as a species of moral requirements.