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Brian Bix DPhil Oxford, JD Harvard
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bixxx002@umn.edu |
My primary writing interests have been in legal philosophy, ranging broadly from traditional analytical work to the more critical schools grounded in feminism and economics, with some emphasis on legal positivism, natural law theory, and questions of methodology. Thus, I am concerned not only with possible views regarding the nature of law, but also with investigating what the status of claims can and should be in this area (for example, whether jurisprudential inquiries can or should be conceptual). My teaching interests beyond jurisprudence include philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and political philosophy, with some emphasis on the works of Wittgenstein and Nietzsche. I hold a joint appointment at the Law School. In that capacity, I specialize in family law and contract law. |
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Selected Publications A Dictionary of Legal Theory, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). "Legal Positivism," in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law, Martin Golding & William A. Edmundson, eds., (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), pp.29-49. Jurisprudence: Theory and Context, 3rd ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2003). Law, Language and Legal Determinacy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). "Cautions and Caveats for the Application of
Wittgenstein to Legal Theory," in Topics in Contemporary Philosophy,
Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, & David Shier, eds.,
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming). "Can Theories of Meaning and Reference Solve the Problem of Legal Determinacy?," 16 Ratio Juris, 281 (2003). "Law as an Autonomous Discipline," in The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies, Peter Cane & Mark Tushnet, eds., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). "Natural Law Theory: The Modern Tradition," in The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy 62-103, Jules L. Coleman & Scott Shapiro, eds., Kenneth Einar Himma, assoc. ed., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). "John Austin," in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu (2001). "On the Dividing Line Between Natural Law Theory and Legal Positivism," 75 Notre Dame Law Review 1613 (2000). |
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