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Associate Professor Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 N. Fifth St. Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Professor Oberdiek regularly teaches Torts, Administrative Law, and a survey course in legal and political philosophy called Law, Justice and Society, as well as a seminar in tort theory called Risk, Responsibility and Rights and another philosophically-oriented seminar called Democracy, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State. His research focuses on normative legal theory, especially tort theory and the theory of risk regulation, general jurisprudence, as well as moral and political philosophy.
Professor Oberdiek joined the Law School faculty from the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter in 2004. After receiving his B.A. from Middlebury College, he pursued graduate study in philosophy, first at Balliol College, Oxford, then at NYU, where he received his M.A., and finally at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received both his J.D. and Ph.D through the University's Joint Program in Law and Philosophy. In 2005-06, Professor Oberdiek was on leave at Princeton University, where he was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow in the University Center for Human Values as well as a Fellow in the Program in Ethics and Public Affairs.
Professor Oberdiek is also Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy.
Publications
Books:
Arguing About Law
(Routledge, forthcoming 2008) (co-edited with Aileen Kavanagh)
A 700-page anthology of leading articles in philosophy of law and jurisprudence.
Articles:
“Philosophical Issues in Tort Law,” 3 Philosophy Compass (forthcoming 2008)
"What's Wrong with Infringements (Insofar as Infringements are Not Wrong): A Reply," 27 Law and Philosophy 293 (2008)
"Specifying Rights Out of Necessity," 28 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 127 (2008)
"Culpability and the Definition of Deontological Constraints" 27 Law and Philosophy 105 (2008).
"Moral Evaluation and Conceptual Analysis in Jurisprudential Methodology," in Michael Freeman and Ross Harrison (eds.), Current Legal Issues: Law and Philosophy (Oxford, 2007) (with Dennis Patterson).
Review of Law and Risk, edited by the Law Commission of Canada, 44 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 590 (2006) (solicited).
"The Ethics in Risk Regulation: Towards a Contractualist Re-Orientation," 36 Rutgers Law Journal 199 (2004) (solicited).
"Lost in Moral Space: On the Infringing/Violating Distinction and its Place in the Theory of Rights," 23 Law and Philosophy 325 (2004).
"Reasons, Motivation, and Sexism: A Comment on John Robertson's 'Preconception Sex Selection'", 1 American Journal of Bioethics 38 (2001).