Jeremy Waldron

Jeremy Waldron is a University Professor at Columbia University, where he has taught law and philosophy since 1997. He also holds a visiting professorship at Victoria University in his native New Zealand. Waldron holds a B.A. (1974) and an LL.B. (1978) from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a D.Phil. (1986) from Oxford University, where he studied under Ronald Dworkin.

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Columbia University - Victoria University - New Zealand - University of Otago - Oxford University - Ronald Dworkin

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Prior to coming to Columbia Law School, Waldron taught legal and political philosophy at Otago (1975-78), Lincoln College, Oxford (1980-82), the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1983-87), the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California (1986-96), and Princeton University (1996-97). He also also served as a visiting professor at Cornell University (1989-90), Otago (1991-92), and Columbia (1995). He 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, and the Wesson Lectures at Stanford University in 2004. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

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Columbia Law School - Otago - Lincoln College, Oxford - University of Edinburgh - Scotland - Boalt Hall School of Law - University of California - Princeton University - Cornell University - Columbia - Cambridge University - Oxford - Stanford University - American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Waldron is a liberal in both the general and American senses of the word, and a normative legal positivist. He has written extensively on the political and legal philosophy of John Locke, and is an outspoken opponent of the American practice of judicial review, which he believes to be in tension with democratic principles.

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Liberal - Normative - Legal positivist - John Locke - Judicial review

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