Dr. Ori J. Herstein, Cornell University


   Morgenbesser 
On Fairness and Justice:

      Philosopher Sydney Morgenbesser was once asked if it was unfair that the police 
      hit  him 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, but it was not 
      unfair since they hit everybody.”




Academic Home Page: I am an academic, interested in legal philosophy and private law theory. Here you can find some information pertaining to my academic work, the work of some colleagues, recommendations and interesting links.

Recent Papers:  
  • Defending the Right to Do WrongLaw and Philosophy (forthcoming, 2012) (Peer reviewed). (SSRN Link)
Recent Recommendations of Interesting Papers/Books: 
Teachingtortstort theory, and philosophy of law  

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Cornell University
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King's College London:
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Peking U. School of Transnational Law:
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
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Dorf on Law (blog):
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PrawfsBlawg (blog):
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“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).           


                                                                             

"No one I know lives in the house where they grew up or even in the town or village where they once were children.  Most of my friends live apart from their parents. Many were born in one country and now live in another.  Others live in exile, forming their thoughts in a second language among strangers.  I have friends whose family past was consumed in the concentration camps. They are orphans in time. This century has made migration, expatriation and exile the norm, rootedness the exception.“

                                                                               Michael Ignatieff / The Russian Album