Jedediah Purdy

Archibald Cox, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law

Research Interests

• American politics
• Ethics in international relations
• Methods in social inquiry
• Property and constitutionalism
• Property theory and history

Appointments

• Professor of Law, Duke Law School

Additional Information

Visiting Professor of Law Purdy will teach Natural Resources Law and Policy and the seminar Sources of Environmental Law in the Spring Term 2010.

Representative Publications

• "People as Property: On Being a Resource and a Person," Duke L. J. (2006 (forthcoming))
• "Property and Empire: Conquest, Expropriation, and the Law of Colonialism," Geo. Wash. L. Rev. (2006 (forthcoming))
• "The American Transformation of Waste Doctrine: A Pluralist Interpretation," 91 Cornell L. Rev. 563 (2006)
• "The Promise (and Limits) of Neuroeconomics," Alabama L. Rev. (2006 (forthcoming))
• "A Freedom-Promoting Approach to Property: A Revived Tradition for New Debates," 72 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1237 (2005)