WILLIAM A. EDMUNDSON
Georgia State University College of Law
Urban Life Building, Room 458
140 Decatur Street,Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4037
404-413-9167
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Regents’ Professor, since 2010; Professor of Philosophy, since 2001; Professor of Law, since 1997; Associate Professor of Law, 1991-96; Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, 1990-91
University College, Oxford
H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow
Oxford University Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Law
Trinity term, 2006
University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
Assistant Professor of Law, 1989-90
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
An Introduction to Rights
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; Portuguese ed., Uma introdução aos direitos, E. Ferriera E Silva & N. Eichemburg, trans. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006)
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law, co-edited with Martin P. Golding
(Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings
(Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999)
Three Anarchical Fallacies: An Essay on Political Authority
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, paperback ed. 2007) A Choice “Outstanding Academic Book” for 1999
Political Authority, Moral Powers, and the Intrinsic Value of Obedience
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 2010 30: 179-191
Pluralism, Intransitivity, Incoherence
In Mark White, ed., Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics (Cambridge 2009)
Schauer on Precedent in the U.S. Supreme Court
Georgia State University Law Review, vol. 24, no. 2, Winter 2007, 403-13
The Virtue of Law-Abidance
Philosophers’ Imprint, vol. 6, no. 4 (Dec. 2006)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0006.004
Internal Reasons and External Requirements
In Barbara Montero and Mark White, eds., Economics and Mind (Routledge, 2006)
“First Force”
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy www.jesp.org, (2005), vol. 1, no. 3
Comments on Richard Arneson’s “Joel Feinberg and the Justification of Hard Paternalism”
Legal Theory 11:286-91 (2005)
State of the Art: The Duty to Obey the Law
Legal Theory 10:215-59 (2004)
Privacy
in The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
Locke and Load
Law and Philosophy 22:195-216 (2003)
Afterword: Proportionality and the Difference Death Makes
Criminal Justice Ethics 21:40-43 (2002)
Social Meaning, Compliance Conditions, and Law’s Claim to Authority
Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 15:51-67 (2002)
Legitimate Authority Without Political Obligation
Law and Philosophy 17:43-60 (1998)
Is Law Coercive?
Legal Theory 1:81-111 (1995)
The Antinomy of Coherence and Determinacy
Iowa Law Review 82:1-20 (1996)
Rethinking Exclusionary Reasons
Law and Philosophy 12:329-43 (1993)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Invited speaker, International Colloquium on Political Authority and Obligation, June 15-17, 2011, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science
Keynote speaker, 3rd Postgraduate Conference in Law and Philosophy, Stirling University, Scotland, May 13-14, 2010
Spoke on “Political Authority, Moral Powers, and the Intrinsic Value of Obedience,” Institute for Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, February 3, 2009
Spoke on “Authority and Obligation” with David Estlund
Association of American Law Schools, San Diego, CA, January 2009
Conference on the Work of Joel Feinberg, Georgia State University
Commentator, April 1-2, 2005
Privacy Colloquium, University of Utah
Presented “Privacy as Right to Do Wrong”
April 1-3, 2004
Transvision 2003: The Adaptable Human Body, Yale University
Presented “Posterity and Embodiment”
June 29, 2003
SELECTED EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
General Editor, 2003-
Law and Philosophy: An International Journal for Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy
Member, Editorial Board, since 2001
American Philosophical Association
Member of the Committee on Philosophy and Law, 1999-2002
EDUCATION
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
J.D., with honors, 1985; Order of the Coif; Article Editor, Duke Law Journal
University of California, Berkeley, California
Ph.D., 1982, in Philosophy
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
B.A., 1972, in Philosophy