Robin West (born 1954) is the Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy and Associate Dean (Research and Academic Programs) at the Georgetown University Law Center. West's research is primarily concerned with feminist legal theory,

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and theory, philosophy of law, and the law and literature movement. West holds a B.A. and a J.D. (1979) from the

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and a masters in judicial studies from

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. West came to Georgetown after teaching at the

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from 1986 to 1991, and at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law from 1982 to 1985. West is best known for her work in the ethics of care and feminist legal theory. West has argued that the liberal view of people as autonomous individuals is only superficially true from a masculine perspective in her most famous work, "Jurisprudence and Gender." She has also published extensively on the concept of consent in sexual, legal, and institutional contexts.

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Faculty page at Georgetown Law
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