Jody S. Ponsa-Kraus is a Patricia D. and R. Paul Yetter Professor of Law at

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Biography

Kraus holds a J.D. from

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, a Ph.D. in Philosophy, an M.A. from the

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, and a B.A. from The

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. He received numerous awards at the

and served as a Senior Editor of the ''

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''. He entered Yale Law as a member of the ''

'' after having been published in the Journal before enrolling. Prior to joining the faculties of Columbia Law and Columbia University, Ponsa-Kraus was the David E. Kaufman & Leopold C. Glass Professor of Law at the

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, where he also co-directed the Institute for Law and Philosophy. Before joining Penn Law, he was on the faculty of the

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as the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy and as the Albert Clark Tate, Jr. Research Professor. In 2012, he joined the faculty of

, and is also a professor in

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's Department of Philosophy. He will serve, in addition, as co-director of the Law School's Center for Law & Philosophy. He frequently uses economic theory in his lectures. He is co-author of the textbook ''Contract Law and Theory''.Scott, Robert E. (2007) "Contract Law and Theory". LexisNexis Matthew Bender. (4th) .

Publications

Books

*Contract Law and Theory (with Robert E. Scott) (LexisNexis, 4th ed. 2007). *The Jurisprudential Foundations of Corporate and Commercial Law (ed. with Steven D. Walt) (Cambridge University Press, 2000). *The Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

References

*''Ethics'' 112 (April 2002): 626–628. Book Review of Kraus, Jody S., and Walt, Steven D., eds. The Jurisprudential Foundations of Corporate and Commercial Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 245. $54.95 (cloth). Reviewed by Eric A. Posner, University of Chicago
Virginia Law Weekly. 24 February 2006, 58(17). Law Review symposium debates philosophy of private law. By Scott Dorfman '07, News Editor
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