William E. Scheuerman (born 1965) is an

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n philosopher and James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at

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. He is known for his works on

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Life

Scheuerman obtained a B.A. in philosophy at

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in 1987. He also spent a year abroad at the

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(1985-86) on the Junior Year in Munich Program sponsored by

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. Starting in 1987 he was a PhD student in

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's Department of Government, while again spending a year (1990-91) in Germany at the University of Frankfurt. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from

in 1993, with a dissertation titled "Reason, Radicalism, and the Rule of Law: The

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and the Crisis of Modern Law". His committee members included

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(co-chair),

Seyla Benhabib Seyla Benhabib (; born September 9, 1950) is a Turkish-born American philosopher. Benhabib is a senior research scholar and adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Columbia University Depa ...

(co-chair),

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, and

Bonnie Honig Bonnie Honig (born 1959) is a political, feminist, and legal theorist specializing in democratic theory. In 2013–14, she became Nancy Duke Lewis Professor-Elect of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University, succeeding A ...

. He was an assistant professor (1993-1998) and associate professor (1998-2000) at the

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, associate professor (2000-2003) and professor of political science and affiliated professor of law (2003-2005) at the

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. Since then, he has been a professor of political science at

Prizes

He is a winner of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for his book '' Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law'' in 1996. He has received fellowships from DAAD, the

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, and a

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in 2016.

Publications

Articles

His work has been published in ''

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'', ''

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'', '' International Theory'', '' Journal of Political Philosophy'', '' Politics & Society'', ''

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'', and ''

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'', among others.

Books

* ''Between the Norm and the Exception: The

and the Rule of Law'' (MIT, 1994) * ''The Rule of Law Under Siege'' (ed.) (California, 1996) * ''The End of Law:

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in the Twenty-First Century'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) * ''From Liberal Democracy to Fascism: Legal and Political Thought in the Weimar Republic (''ed. with Peter Caldwell) (Humanities Press, 2000) * ''Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time'' (Johns Hopkins, 2004) * ''Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law'' (Routledge 2008) * '' Hans J. Morgenthau: Realism and Beyond'' (Polity, 2009) * ''High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity (''ed. with Hartmut Rosa) (Penn State, 2009) * ''The Realist Case for Global Reform'' (Polity, 2011) * ''Civil Disobedience'' (Polity Press, 2018) * ''The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience'' (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2021) * ''Property Disobedience as Protest: Rethinking Political Nonviolence'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scheuerman, William 21st-century American philosophers American philosophy academics Living people 1965 births Indiana University Bloomington faculty Harvard University alumni Yale University alumni American political philosophers