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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 and Administrative Law as well as several upper-level interdisciplinary courses and seminars in philosophy of law, social and political philosophy, as well as theoretical aspects of tort law and administrative law. His research focuses on normative legal theory, 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, 2009) (co-edited with Aileen Kavanagh)
A 600-page anthology of leading articles in philosophy of law and jurisprudence with significant editorial content.
Articles:
"Risk," in Dennis Patterson (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, Second Edition (Blackwell, forthcoming)
"Towards a Right Against Risking," 28 Law and Philosophy 367 (2009)
"Philosophical Issues in Tort Law," 3 Philosophy Compass 734 (2008) (solicited)
"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) (symposium).
"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).