GERALD POSTEMA Cary C.  Boshamer  Professor  of Philosophy and Professor of Law

Gerald Postema has published extensively in legal and political philosophy and ethics. He is editor of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law and formerly special Issues editor of Law & Philosophy. With Prof. Michael Corrado, he is convener of the annual UNC Workshops in Law and Philosophy. He wrote Bentham and the Common Law Tradition (1986/1989) and has edited Racism and the Law (1997) and Rationality, Conventions, and the Law (1998). Recently he edited Philosophy and the Law of Torts (2001) and two volumes of critical essays on Bentham, Jeremy Bentham: Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy (2002). Currently, he is working on a history of Anglo-American jurisprudence in the 20th century, on a book on common law jurisprudence, and a book on Hume's theory of justice. Sample publications: "Coordination and Convention at the Foundations of Law," Journal of Legal Studies (1982); "The Normativity of Law," Issues in Contemporary Legal Philosophy (1987); "'Protestant' Interpretation and Social Practices," Law & Philosophy (1987); "Answering Hume's Sensible Knave," History of Philosophy Quarterly (1988); "Bentham on the Public Character of Law," Utilitas (1989); "Risks, Wrongs, and Responsibility," Yale Law Journal (1993); "Morality in the First Person Plural," Law & Philosophy (1995); "Public Practical Reason: An Archeology," Social Philosophy & Policy (1995); "Integrity: Justice in Workclothes," Iowa Law Review (1997); "Conventions at the Foundations of Law," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Law and Economics (1998); "Jurisprudence as Practical Philosophy," Legal Theory (1998); "Objectivity Fit for Law," Objectivity in Law and Morals (2000); “The Philosophy of Common Law,” Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy (2002); "Classical Common Law Jurisprudence [Parts I and II]," Oxford University Journal of Commonwealth Law (2002, 2003); “Melody and Law’s Mindfulness of Time,” Ratio Juris (2004); “Politics is About the Grievance,” Legal Theory (2005); “Bentham’s Utilitarianism,” A Guide to Mill’s Utilitarianism (2006); “Interests, Universal and Particular: Bentham’s Utilitarian Theory of Value,” Utilitas (2006); “Whence Avidity? Hume's Psychology and the Origins of Justice,” Synthese (2006); “Cemented with Diseased Qualities,” Hume Studies (2006); “Custom in International Law: A Normative Practice Account,” The Nature of Customary Law: Legal, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (2007); “A similibus ad similia: Analogical Thinking in Law,” Common Law Theory (2007); “Salience Reasoning,” Topoi, vol. 27 (2008);“Conformity, Custom and Congruence: Rethinking the Efficacy of Law” in The Legacy of Hart (2008). [Complete CV]