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Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Dean Ferzan teaches courses and seminars on criminal law and evidence. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy.
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2000, Dean Ferzan clerked for the Honorable Marvin Katz in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and then worked as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, investigating and prosecuting criminal offenses committed by federal, state, and local officials. She also served as a special assistant United States attorney in the District of Columbia.
Dean Ferzan is an associate graduate faculty member in the philosophy department at Rutgers–New Brunswick. A reviewer for a number of legal journals and publishing companies, she speaks nationally on issues related to criminal law and evidence. She serves on the New Jersey Supreme Court's Standing Committee on Evidence and was a visiting professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law in 2007. Dean Ferzan has been a chair for the AALS sections on jurisprudence and scholarship and was an adviser for the New Jersey Board of Bar Examiners in Torts and Evidence from 2000 to 2005. At Rutgers, she was selected as Professor of the Year by the Class of 2004 and received the Women's Law Caucus Faculty Appreciation Award in 2007.
Publications
BOOKS
Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law (with Larry Alexander and Stephen Morse) (Cambridge University Press 2009)
Criminal Law Conversations (co-edited with Stephen Garvey and Paul Robinson)(forthcoming Oxford University Press 2009)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Beyond the Special Part, in Duff & Green, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (forthcoming OUP 2010)(with Larry Alexander)
Justification and Excuse, in Deigh & Dolinko, eds., Oxford Handbook on the Philosophy of Criminal Law (forthcoming OUP 2009)
Is There a Method to the Madness? Why Creative and Counterintuitive Proposals are Counterproductive in Mark D. White, ed., Theoretical Foundations of Law & Economics (Cambridge Univ. Press 2008)(with Michael Dorff)
Fletcher on the Fault of Not Knowing in Russell Christopher, ed., Essays on Criminal Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2008)(with Larry Alexander).
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
A Planet by Any Other Name, 109 Mich. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2010)(book review essay)
The Structure of Criminal Law, forthcoming Criminal Justice Ethics (solicited review essay of Antony Duff's Answering for Crime)
The Perils of Forgetting Fairness, 59 Case Western Reserve Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2009)(with Michael Dorff)
Justifying Killing in Self-Defence, 99 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (with Arlette Grabczynska) (forthcoming 2009) (review essay of Fiona Leverick's Killing in Self-Defence)
Self-Defense and the State, 5 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 449(2008)(symposium)
Culpable Acts of Risk Creation, 5 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 375 (2008)(with Larry Alexander)(symposium)
Beyond Intention, 29 Cardozo Law Review 1147 (2008)(selected for presentation at the 2006 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum in the category of Criminal Law).
Act, Agency, and Indifference: The Foundations of Criminal Responsibility, 10 New Crim. L. Rev. 441 (2007)(solicited review essay of Victor Tadros' Criminal Responsibility)
Holistic Culpability, 28 Cardozo Law Review 2523 (2007)(symposium)
Clarifying Consent, 25 Law and Philosophy 193 (2006)(solicited review of Peter Westen's The Logic of Consent: The Diversity and Deceptiveness of Consent as a Defense to Criminal Conduct)
A Reckless Response to Rape: A Reply to Ayres and Baker, 39 U.C. Davis Law Review 637 (2006)
Justifying Self-Defense, 24 Law and Philosophy 711 (2005) (symposium issue)
Defending Imminence: From Battered Women to Iraq, 46 Ariz. L. Rev. 213 (2004) reprinted in Moriarty ed., Women and the Law (2006).
Some Sound and Fury from Kaplow and Shavell, 23 Law & Philosophy 73 (2004) (review article of Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Fairness versus Welfare (2002))
Don't Abandon the Model Penal Code Yet! Thinking Through Simons's Rethinking, 6 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 185 (2002) (symposium issue)
Opaque Recklessness, 91 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 597 (2001)
Mens Rea and Inchoate Crimes, 87 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1138 (1997) (with Larry Alexander)
The Role of Luck in the Criminal Law, 142 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2183 (1994)
SHORT PIECES
Intention, in Dennis Patterson, ed., Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (2d ed. forthcoming 2010)
Contributions to Criminal Law Conversations (edited with Garvey and Robinson, OUP 2009): Results Don't Matter (core text with Larry Alexander); Against Negligence Liability (core text with Larry Alexander); Sex as Contract (comment on Michelle Anderson); The Values and Costs of Imminence (comment on Whitley Kaufman); Can't Sue, Can Kill (comment on Jeff McMahan)
Arson and the Special Part, 2 Crim. L. & Phil. __ (forthcoming 2009)
Living on the Edge: The Margins of Legal Personhood, 39 Rutgers Law Journal __ (2008)(symposium introduction)
Murder After the Merger: A Commentary on Finkelstein, 9 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 561 (2006)
Justifications and Excuses: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives, Symposium Foreword, 24 Law and Philosophy 547 (2005)
Torture, Necessity, and the Union of Law and Philosophy, 36 Rutgers L.J. 183 (2004) (symposium)