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Mitchell N. Berman is the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Professor of Philosophy. He is also the Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Philosophy.


Biography

Berman attended Harvard University (A.B. 1988), the University of Michigan Law School (J.D. 1993), and the University of Michigan (M.A. 1994). In 1994 to 1995 he was a law clerk to
James Dickson Phillips Jr. James Dickson Phillips Jr. (September 23, 1922 – August 27, 2017) was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States federal judge, United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Early l ...
, senior circuit judge of the
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''The Washington Post''.
He is also the Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Philosophy. Earlier in his career he was the University of Texas at Austin School of Law Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law. Among his many articles are "Our Principled Constitution," 166 ''U. PA. L. REV.'' 1325 (2018), "The Tragedy of Justice Scalia," ''115 MICH. L. REV.'' 783 (2017), and "Judge Posner’s Simple Law," 113 ''MICH. L. REV.'' 777 (2015).


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