Scott J. Shapiro
Scott J. Shapiro | |
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 Shapiro in 2018 | |
| Born | Scott Jonathan Shapiro |
| Title | Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School |
| Board member of | Legal Theory |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (BA, PhD) Yale Law School (JD) |
| Thesis | Rules and Practical Reasoning (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Isaac Levi |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Legal theorist |
| Sub-discipline | Jurisprudence |
| Institutions | Yale Law School (2008–) University of Michigan (2005–2008) Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1999–2005) |
| Main interests | Experimental jurisprudence, international legal theory, cybersecurity |
| Notable works | Legality (2011) The Internationalists (with Oona A. Hathaway, 2017) |
| Notable ideas | Planning theory of law, outcasting |
| Website | Yale Law School |
Scott Jonathan Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale Law School and the Director of Yale's Center for Law and Philosophy and of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab.
Education and career
[edit]He received his B.A. in philosophy from Columbia College,[1] his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. After law school, Shapiro served as a clerk for Judge Pierre Leval on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.[2] At Yale, he teaches in Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw, and Cybersecurity.
He is the author of work in jurisprudence and legal theory, including "Legality".[3] He is also the editor of the "Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law". He has been cited for his work on the planning theory of law and for pioneering experimental jurisprudence.[4] He serves as an editor of Legal Theory and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
With Oona A. Hathaway, he developed the concept of "outcasting" in international law and has been critical of humanitarian intervention without authorization from the UN Security Council.[5] His book with Hathaway, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2017, and received wide acclaim by The New Yorker, The Financial Times, and The Economist, among others.[6]
Bibliography
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Books
[edit]- Jules L. Coleman, Kenneth Einar Himma, and Scott J. Shapiro (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 2002, Oxford University Press
- Scott J. Shapiro, Legality, 2011, Harvard University Press
- Hathaway, Oona A. & Scott J. Shapiro (2017). The internationalists : how a radical plan to outlaw war remade the world. New York: Simon & Schuster.
- Published in the UK as Hathaway, Oona & Scott Shapiro (2017). The internationalists and their plan to outlaw war. Allen Lane.
- Shapiro, Scott J. (2023). Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374601171.[7]
Articles and working papers
[edit]- Scott J. Shapiro, “The ‘Hart-Dworkin’ Debate: A Short Guide for the Perplexed,” Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series: Working Paper No. 77, 2007, University of Michigan Law School
- Oona Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, “Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and International Law,” Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, No. 2, 252, 2011, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 240
Critical studies and reviews of Shapiro's work
[edit]- The internationalists
- Hull, Isabel (April 26, 2018). "Anything can be rescinded". London Review of Books. 40 (8): 25–26.
- European authors
- Alexy, Robert (2016). "Scott J Shapiro between Positivism and Non-Positivism". Jurisprudence. 7 (2): 299–306. doi:10.1080/20403313.2016.1190149. S2CID 152165585.
References
[edit]- ^ "Bookshelf". Columbia College Today. 2018-10-05. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
- ^ "Scott J. Shapiro - Yale Law School". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "Legality — Scott J. Shapiro | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ Damiano Canale and Giovanni Tuzet, eds, The Planning Theory of Law: A Critical Reading. Springer, 2013. David Plunkett, "The Planning Theory of Law I: The Nature of Legal Institutions", "The Planning Theory of Law II: The Nature of Legal Norms". Philosophy Compass. Volume 8, Issue 2 (2013), 149–158 and 159–169.
- ^ Oona Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, "On Syria, A U.N. Vote Isn't Optional," New York Times, Sept. 3, 2013.
- ^ "What Happens When War Is Outlawed". The New Yorker. 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ Greenawalt, Marc (2022-12-02). "Spring 2023 Announcements: Science". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
