Scott Jonathan Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Philosophy at

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & Worl ...

and the Director of Yale's Center for Law and Philosophy and of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia College, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from

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. He also studied at

Yeshivat Har Etzion Yeshivat Har Etzion (YHE; ), commonly known in English as "Gush" and in Hebrew as "Yeshivat HaGush", is a hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, an Israeli settlement in Gush Etzion. It is considered one of the leading institutions of advanced Tor ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. After law school, Shapiro served as a clerk for Judge Pierre Leval on the U.S. District Court for the

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. At Yale, he teaches in Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw, and Cybersecurity. He is the author of work in

jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...

and legal theory, including "Legality". 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 Experimental jurisprudence (X-Jur) is an emerging field of legal scholarship that explores the nature of legal phenomena through psychological investigations of legal concepts. The field departs from traditional analytic legal philosophy in its am ...

. 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 The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the Organs of the United Nations, six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international security, international peace and security, recommending the admi ...

. His book with Hathaway, ''The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World'', was published by

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in September 2017, and received wide acclaim by ''The New Yorker'', ''The Financial Times'', and ''The Economist'', among others.

Bibliography

Books

* Jules L. Coleman, Kenneth Einar Himma, and Scott J. Shapiro (eds)
The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law
2002,

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* Scott J. Shapiro
Legality
2011,

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Articles and working papers

* 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 The University of Michigan Law School (Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparative Law (MCL ...

Oona Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, “Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and International Law,”
Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, No. 2, 252, 2011,

, Public Law Working Paper No. 240

Critical studies and reviews of Shapiro's work

;The internationalists * ;European authors *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shapiro, Scott J. 21st-century American philosophers Philosophers of law Yale Law School faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Yeshivat Har Etzion Columbia College (New York) alumni Yale Law School alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni