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Spring 2007
Volume 06, Number 2
Newsletter on Philosophy and Law
From the Editor
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Edition in Tribute to Joseph Raz
Joseph Raz is professor at Columbia University Law School and Research Faculty at Oxford University. His writings influence generations of scholars and his many students are now among the leading scholars in philosophy of law.
For this edition of the Newsletter we invited leading political and legal philosophers to analyze some aspect of Professor Raz’s ideas. Commentators include Brian Bix, Jules Coleman, Timothy Endicott, Kenneth Himma, Liam Murphy, and Stephen Perry. The quality of these outstanding contributions speak for themselves in the pages that follow.
The idea for this edition originated with co-editor John Arthur, who spent time with Joseph Raz as a Visiting Fellow at Balliol College in 2004. I report with great sadness that Professor Arthur died this past January after a year-long struggle with lung cancer. A respected philosopher of law in his own right, Professor Arthur published several books in this field and political philosophy generally, including the Race, Racism, and the Burdens of History (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). Professor Arthur lived the life of the mind and enjoyed discussion of others’ philosophical ideas as much as his own. He certainly would have been pleased with the outcome of this forum on the writings of Joseph Raz.
The previous edition featured Joel Feinberg. The next edition will be a symposium on the writings of legal and political philosopher A. John Simmons.
I also welcome Christopher Griffin as a new co-editor for the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law.
Professor Griffin specializes in democratic theory and is associate professor of philosophy at Northern Arizona University.
Steven Scalet
Binghamton University
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