Christopher Essert, B.A. (McGill), J.D. (Toronto), LL.M., J.S.D. (Yale) is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s. In 2009-2010, he was a visiting doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto Centre for Ethics. Essert was a SSHRC Fellow at Yale and served as a law clerk to Justice Michel Bastarache of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2006-2007. His main interests are in analytic jurisprudence and private law theory and his current work investigates the nature of legal obligation. Essert’s recent publications include “Tort Law and Happiness” (Queen’s Law Journal, 2010), “Normativity, Fairness and the Problem of Factual Uncertainty” (Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2009, with Andrew Botterell) and “Dignity and Membership, Equality and Egalitarianism: Economic Rights and Section 15” (Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 2006).

Leslie Green, B.A. (Queen’s), M.A., M.Phil., D.Phil. (Oxford) is the Professor of the Philosophy of Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and Pauline and Max Gordon Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. He holds a fractional appointment in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s, where he is Professor and Distinguished University Fellow in the Philosophy of Law.  Green has been a Visiting Professor at the law schools at UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, and the University of Texas-Austin, a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University's Center for Law and Philosophy and a member of the Hauser Global Faculty at NYU Law School.  Green writes and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence and constitutional theory. His recent publications include Law and Loyalties (forthcoming), “Two Worries About Respect for Persons” (Ethics, 2010), “Positivism and the Inseparability of Law and Morals” (New York University Law Review, 2007), and “The Duty to Govern” (Legal Theory, 2007). Green co-edits Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law and the monograph series Oxford Legal Theory. He also serves on the editorial boards of many journals, including Law and Philosophy and Legal Theory.

Larissa Katz, B.A. Hons., LL.B. (Alberta), LL.M. (Yale) is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s. She was a Visiting Research Fellow in the John Fleming Centre for the Advancement of Legal Research at the Australian National University in 2008 and will be a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (Paris) in 2011. Katz held Viscount Bennett and Lillian Goldman scholarships at Yale and served as a law clerk to Justice Charles Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2000-2001. Katz is interested in private law theory. Her work has concentrated upon philosophy of property and philosophical problems of law and development. Katz has authored “Ownership and Social Solidarity” (Legal Theory, 2011), “The Moral Paradox of Adverse Possession: Sovereignty and Revolution on Property Law (McGill Law Journal, 2010), “Red Tape and Gridlock: Flight to the Informal Sector (Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 2010) and “Exclusion and Exclusivity in Property Law” (University of Toronto Law Journal, 2008). She is member of the editorial board of the journal Property Law Review. Her publications are available online:
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Rahul Kumar, B.A. (Queen’s), B.Phil., D.Phil. (Oxford) is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s. He was previously on faculty in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University and a Laurance S.Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. Kumar is interested in moral and political philosophy, particularly non-consequentialist moral theory and moral psychology. His current work concerns questions concerning the normative foundations of obligations to past and future generations. He is the author of Consensualism in Principle (Routledge, 2001), co-editor, with Jon Miller, of Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries (OUP, 2007), and co-editor, with R. Jay Wallace and Samuel Freeman, of Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon (OUP, 2011). His papers have appeared in journals including Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Analysis, and Ratio.

Will Kymlicka, B.A. (Queen’s), B.Phil., D.Phil. (Oxford) is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s.  He holds a cross-appointment in the Faculty of Law. Kymlicka is a visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies program at the Central European University in Budapest. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. From 2004-6, he was the President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.  Kymlicka’s work addresses questions of political and constitutional theory. His recent publications include Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, Citizenship (OUP, 2001), Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (OUP, 2007), “Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity” (Ethics and International Affairs, 2009), and “Testing the Liberal Multiculturalist Hypothesis: Normative Theories and Social Science Evidence” (Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2010). His recent edited volumes include Multiculturalism and the Welfare State (OUP 2006), The Globalization of Ethics (CUP, 2007), and The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (OUP, 2008). Kymlicka is an editor of journals including Ethics, Contemporary Political Theory, and Review of Constitutional Studies. More information on his publications is available online:
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Paul B. Miller, B.A. Hons. (Mt. Allison), M.A. (Toronto), M.Phil. (Cambridge), J.D., Ph.D. (Toronto), is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s. Miller held a SSHRC Fellowship at Toronto and served as a law clerk to Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2008-2009. He works in private law theory. Miller is particularly interested in the law of equity and he is currently working on philosophical problems in fiduciary law and the law of organizations. He has authored articles including “The Future for Business Trusts” (Queen’s Law Journal, 2011) and “A Theory of Fiduciary Liability” (McGill Law Journal, 2011). His publications are available online: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=364395 

Michael G. Pratt, B.Sc. (Toronto), LL.B. (Osgoode), LL.M. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Sydney) is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s. He holds a cross-appointment in the Department of Philosophy. Pratt works in private law theory and he is particularly interested in the philosophy of contract law, the philosophy of promising, and the law of remedies. His recent publications include “The Directed Obligation Conception of Promising” (under review), “Contract: Not Promise” (Florida State University Law Review, 2008) and “Promises, Contracts, and Voluntary Obligations” (Law and Philosophy, 2007). Pratt is an editor of the journal Law and Philosophy. Some of his publications are available online:
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Christine Sypnowich, B.A., M.A. (Toronto), D.Phil. (Oxford), is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s. Since 2003, she has been a Corresponding Fellow of the Centre for Ethics and the Philosophy of Law at Oxford University. She was a Visiting Fellow of the Centre and of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 2002. Sypnowich works in political philosophy, jurisprudence and feminism. Her recent publications include “Human Flourishing: A New Concept of Equality” (in Neutrality Revisited, Palgrave, forthcoming), “The Left and Wrongs” (in European Legal Development Project: Legal and Social Philosophy, OUP, 2010), and “Ruling or Overruled? The People, Rights and Democracy” (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2007). Sypnowich has also recently edited The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G.A. Cohen (OUP, 2006). She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Res Publica.

Malcolm Thorburn, B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (U. Penn.), J.D. (Toronto), LL.M., J.S.D. (Columbia), is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Crime, Security and Constitutionalism in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s. He has been Visiting Research Fellow in the John Fleming Centre for the Advancement of Legal Research at the Australian National University in Canberra and an Associate in Law at Columbia Law School. In 2011, he will be a visiting vellow at the Institut für Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Rechtsphilosophie und Rechtssoziologie, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität, Munich, Germany, the Centre des Etudes Sociologiques en Droit et Institutions Pénales (CESDIP) in Paris, France and at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, England. Thorburn held a SSHRC Fellowship and Heffernan Fellowship at Columbia and served as a law clerk to Justice Louis Lebel of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2000-2001. Thorburn is interested in the philosophical foundations of criminal justice, and has written about philosophical problems of substantive criminal law, criminal procedure and sentencing. In 2009, he was awarded (as co-investigator) a SSHRC standard research grant for a project entitled “The Fiduciary Constitution of the Rule of Law.” His recent articles include “The Constitution of Criminal Law” (Criminal Law and Philosophy, forthcoming), “Reinventing the Night-watchman State?” (University of Toronto Law Journal, 2010) and “Justifications, Powers and Authority” (Yale Law Journal, 2008). Thorburn has also contributed essays recently to edited volumes including, RA Duff and S Green, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (OUP, forthcoming) and P Robinson, S Garvey and K Ferzan, Criminal Law Conversations (OUP, 2009). He is a member of the editorial boards of the journalsLaw and Philosophy and New Criminal Law Review. His publications are available online:                                                      
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Mark D. Walters, B.A. (Western), LL.B. (Queen’s), D.Phil. (Oxford) is Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s. He previously taught law at New College, Oxford and Merton College, Oxford. Walters has been a Sir Neil MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Law and Herbert Smith Visitor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. He held a Commonwealth Scholarship at Oxford and served as a law clerk to the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 1989-1990. Walters is interested in public law theory and the history of jurisprudential ideas. His recent publications include “Legality as Reason: Dicey, Rand and the Rule of Law” (McGill Law Journal, forthcoming), “Legal Humanism and Law as Integrity” (Cambridge Law Journal, 2008) and “The Morality of Aboriginal Law” (Queen’s Law Journal, 2006).