Jules Leslie Coleman (born 1947) is a scholar of law and jurisprudence. He was the Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of

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and Professor of

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until 2012. Jules currently is chief academic officer a
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he most recently served as the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Planning at

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Biography

Coleman received his B.A. from

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in 1968, his Ph.D in

from

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in 1972, and his M.S.L. from the

in 1976. He taught classes at Yale on philosophy of law; torts; law, language and truth; political philosophy; and rational choice. Coleman briefly served on the faculty of the

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and returned there again later in his career to teach philosophy in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program. In 1988, he received the Brooklyn College Distinguished Alumni Award and was granted a

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. He was selected to deliver the Clarendon Lectures at the

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. Coleman is also known for his audiophilia and has published occasionally on the subject of music and sound systems. Coleman's brother is the fiction writer

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Works

Jules Coleman has published extensively in legal journals and is the author of several books. His works include: *Philosophy of Law: An Introduction to Jurisprudence (with Jeffrey Murphy), 1984 *Markets, Morals, and the Law, 1998

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*Risks and Wrongs, 1992,

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*The Practice of Principle: In Defense of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory, 2000,

*Hart's Postscript: Essays on the Postscript to The Concept of Law, 2001,

*The Clarendon Lectures in Law, 2001,

*The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy (with Scott Shapiro), 2002,

*Philosophy and Law (with

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), 2006 Coleman is best known for his espousal of

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References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20111125083202/http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/JColeman.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Coleman, Jules 1947 births Living people American legal scholars Yale Law School alumni Yale Law School faculty Philosophy academics Philosophers of law New York University Abu Dhabi faculty Brooklyn College alumni