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Jules L. Coleman
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy
262 Ruttenberg Hall (Sterling Law Buildings, Law School)
203.432.4842
jules.coleman@yale.edu
Education
PhD 1972, The Rockefeller University
Areas of Interest
Most of my research has focused on the philosophy of law, political philosophy and the methodology of the social sciences. Within the philosophy of law, my scholarship has emphasized issues in jurisprudence and the nature of responsibility in the law. In political philosophy, I have written on the nature of authority, democracy and the foundations of contractarianism. Otherwise I have focused on the foundations on rational choice theory in its applications to economics, political theory and law.
Current or Recent Courses Taught
- Perspectives on Legal Thought
- Seminar on Authority
- Seminar on Responsibility
- Rational Choice and Rational Cognition: The Philosophy of Law
- Tort Theory
Selected Publications
Books
- The Practice of Principle: In Defense of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory
- The Clarendon Lectures in Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
- Risks and Wrongs, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992)
- Markets, Morals and the Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
- The Philosophy of Law, with Joel Feinberg (Wadsworth, 1999)
Articles
- “Negative and Positive Positivism”, Journal of Legal Studies, 1982
- “Incorporationism, Conventionality and the Practical Difference Thesis,” Legal Theory, 1998
- “Constraints on the Criteria of Legality”, Legal Theory, 2000
- “Crimes and Transactions”, University of California Law Review, 2000
- “Authority and Reason”, in Robert George (ed.), The Autonomy of Law (OUP, 1995)
- “Democracy and Social Choice”, (with John Ferejohn), Ethics, 1986
Works in Progress
- “Objectivity and Legal Content”
- “Professor Dworkin's Defense of Normative Jurisprudence”
- “Naturalized Epistemology and Naturalized Jurisprudence”
- “The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: How not to understand the Harm Principle”
- “With Friends Like These…: the new defense of economic efficiency”
- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
