Don Herzog (born April 7, 1956) is an American political scientist and Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law at the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

. He is known for his works on

consent theory Consent theory is a term for the idea in social philosophy that individuals primarily make decisions as free agents entering into consensual relationships with other free agents, and that this becomes the basis for political governance. An early el ...

and

sovereignty Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within a state as well as external autonomy for states. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the person, body or institution that has the ultimate au ...

and is a winner of the Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching at that university.

Books

* ''Sovereignty, RIP'', Yale University Press 2020 * ''A Little Book of Political Mistakes'', 2020 * ''Defaming the Dead'', Yale University Press 2017 * '' Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders'', Princeton University Press 1998 * ''Happy Slaves: A Critique of Consent Theory'', University of Chicago Press 1989

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Defaming the Dead

A Little Book of Political Mistakes
21st-century American philosophers American philosophy academics Living people American political philosophers University of Michigan faculty American political scientists 1956 births American philosophers of law Cornell University alumni Harvard University alumni {{US-polisci-bio-stub