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Jeffrey Brand
Title — Associate Director MA program in Philosophy and Social Policy
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Affiliated Faculty, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
Faculty Advisor, BA/JD Program
Office — Phillips 523
Phone — 202-994-6911
E-mail — jbb@gwu.edu
Areas of Expertise —
ethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy
Education
M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
A.B., Vassar College
Background
Publications
Limits of Legality: The Ethics of Lawless Judging (Oxford University Press, 2010) (read the first chapter)
Reviewed by Emmett Macfarlane, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 20, No. 11 (November, 2010), pp.590-594.
Biomedical Ethics, 7th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2010) (co-edited with Thomas Mappes and David DeGrazia)
Selected Papers
"Innocents Lost: Proportional Sentencing and the Paradox of Collateral Damage," Legal Theory, vol. 15, no. 2 (2009): 67-105.
"Why One Basic Principle?," Utilitas, vol. 19, no. 2 (June 2007): 220-242.
"Contractualism and Deontic Restrictions," Ethics, vol. 114, no. 2 (January 2004): 269-300.
"Consistency, Common Morality, and Reflective Equilibrium," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 13, no. 3 (September 2003): 231-58 (Special Issue: Is There a Common Morality?, Guest Editor: Robert M. Veatch).
"Euthanasia" in David Levinson, ed., Encyclopedia of Crime & Punishment (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2002)
"Hans Kelsen's Unstable Alternative to Natural Law: Recent Critiques," American Journal of Jurisprudence, vol. 41 (1996)