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American philosopher

Scott J. Shapiro
Shapiro in 2018
Born Scott Jonathan Shapiro
Title Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School
Board member of Legal Theory
Academic background
Alma mater Columbia University (BA, PhD)Yale Law School (JD)
Thesis Rules and Practical Reasoning (1996)
Doctoral advisor Isaac Levi
Academic work
Discipline Legal theorist
Sub-discipline Jurisprudence
Institutions Yale Law School (2008–)University of Michigan (2005–2008)Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1999–2005)
Main interests Experimental jurisprudence, international legal theory, cybersecurity
Notable works Legality (2011)The Internationalists (with Oona A. Hathaway, 2017)
Notable ideas Planning theory of law, outcasting
Website Yale Law School

Scott Jonathan Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale Law School and the Director of Yale's Center for Law and Philosophy and of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab.

Education and career

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He received his B.A. in philosophy from Columbia College,[1] his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. After law school, Shapiro served as a clerk for Judge Pierre Leval on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.[2] At Yale, he teaches in Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw, and Cybersecurity.

He is the author of work in jurisprudence and legal theory, including "Legality".[3] He is also the editor of the "Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law". He has been cited for his work on the planning theory of law and for pioneering experimental jurisprudence.[4] He serves as an editor of Legal Theory and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

With Oona A. Hathaway, he developed the concept of "outcasting" in international law and has been critical of humanitarian intervention without authorization from the UN Security Council.[5] His book with Hathaway, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2017, and received wide acclaim by The New Yorker, The Financial Times, and The Economist, among others.[6]

Articles and working papers

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Critical studies and reviews of Shapiro's work

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The internationalists

European authors

  1. ^ "Bookshelf". Columbia College Today. 2018-10-05. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  2. ^ "Scott J. Shapiro - Yale Law School". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  3. ^ "Legality — Scott J. Shapiro | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  4. ^ Damiano Canale and Giovanni Tuzet, eds, The Planning Theory of Law: A Critical Reading. Springer, 2013. David Plunkett, "The Planning Theory of Law I: The Nature of Legal Institutions", "The Planning Theory of Law II: The Nature of Legal Norms". Philosophy Compass. Volume 8, Issue 2 (2013), 149–158 and 159–169.
  5. ^ Oona Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, "On Syria, A U.N. Vote Isn't Optional," New York Times, Sept. 3, 2013.
  6. ^ "What Happens When War Is Outlawed". The New Yorker. 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  7. ^ Greenawalt, Marc (2022-12-02). "Spring 2023 Announcements: Science". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-12-14.