 “We cannot all be Descartes or Kant, but we all want happiness. And happiness, I am sure from having known many successful men, cannot be won simply by being counsel for great corporations and having an income of fifty thousand dollars. An intellect great enough to win the prize needs other food besides success. The remoter and more general aspects of the law are those which give it universal interest. It is through them that you not only become a great master in your calling, but connect your subject with the universe and catch an echo of the infinite, a glimpse of its unfathomable process, a hint of the universal law.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law (1897). Hello, and thank you for visiting my web page! A little about me: I am an academic, working primarily in the fields of legal philosophy and tort law. I wrote my doctoral dissertation at Columbia University under Joseph Raz. Presently, I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University Law School where I teach torts, tort theory, and philosophy of law. Recently, I have been writing on the very perplexing notion of a 'Right to do Wrong.'
Philosopher Sydney Morgenbesser was once asked if it was unfair that the police hit him on the head during the 1968 student occupation of Columbia’s campus. “It was unjust but not unfair,” he pronounced. “It was unjust for them to hit me over the head, but it was not unfair since they hit everybody over the head.” |
