Michael Steven Green

Michael Steven Green

Professor, College of William & Mary School of Law
J.D., Yale Law School, 1996
Ph.D. (Philosophy), Yale University , 1990

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Contact Information

Curriculum Vitae [.pdf]

Publications

Office: NW254F
Office Hours:
T/Th 10:00-12:00
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Teaching:

     Civil Procedure

     Philosophy of Law

     Conflict of Laws

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Recent Articles:

Why Protect Private Arms Possession?

Dworkin v. The Philosophers, 2007 U. of Ill. L. Rev. 1477

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Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition

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Afrikan Spir

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Rowan & Harris

I began my academic career as a philosopher, working primarily in Kant and nineteenth-century German philosophy. I received my Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale in 1990. After visiting appointments at Wesleyan (1989), Yale (1989), and the University of Alabama in Huntsville (1990-91), I took a tenure-track position as assistant professor of philosophy at Tufts University (1991-93).

In 1993, I left Tufts to go to Yale Law School, where I was a senior editor on the Yale Law Journal, an Elliott Goldstein Scholar, and an Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy. After law school, I clerked for Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, and worked for a year in New York as a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. From 1998 to 2005, I was an assistant and then associate professor of law at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. I am now a professor of law at the College of William & Mary.

My research interests can be divided into four main areas:

1) Problems that I began working on as a philosopher, including Kant, Neo-Kantianism, Nietzsche, and transcendental arguments.

2) Analytical jurisprudence, including Hans Kelsen and the relationship between the philosophy of language and the philosophy of law.

3) Locke and the examination of constitutional law in the light of Lockean natural rights theory.

4) More strictly legal interests, including copyright and choice of law.

Updated 20 Feb., 2008