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Orientations of the Rule of Law
The rule of law serves as both a guiding ideal and a framework for evaluating the conduct of citizens, lawmakers and governments. This lecture explores how these distinct perspectives relate to one another and how they can deepen our understanding of the rule of law.

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Professor Waldron was educated in New Zealand and at Oxford, and his career has included appointments at Edinburgh, Berkeley, Princeton, and Columbia. Until recently he combined his position at NYU with the Chichele Chair in Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. Professor Waldron is well known for his work on constitutionalism, human dignity, historic injustice, national security issues, and the rule of law, as well as the history of political philosophy.  His books include Law and Disagreement (Oxford, 1999), The Dignity of Legislation (Cambridge 1999), Torture, Terror and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House (Oxford, 2010), and The Harm in Hate Speech (Harvard, 2012). A collection of his essays on political institutions, entitled Political Political Theory was published by Harvard in 2018. Some of his essays on the Rule of Law were published in Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law (Harvard 2023). 

Professor Waldron was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and, in 2015, to the American Philosophical Society (which also awarded him its Phillips Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Jurisprudence). He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2011.  He has delivered major lectures around the world from Buenos Aires to Jerusalem, including the Storrs Lectures at Yale, the Holmes Lectures at Harvard, the Tanner Lectures at Berkeley, and the Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh. (Professor Waldron’s Gifford Lectures, One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality, were published in Spring 2017.)