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George P. Fletcher
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| Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence |
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435 W. 116th St., Room 616
New York NY 10027
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212.854.2467 |
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fletch@law.columbia.edu |
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Course Subjects/Current Research
- Criminal law
- Comparative law
- Torts
- Jurisprudence
- International criminal law
- The jurisprudence of war
- Biblical jurisprudence
Education
- B.A., California (Berkeley), 1960
- J.D., Chicago, 1964
- M.C.L., 1965
Media Contact
Teaching
- Began teaching law in 1965.
- Professor of law at the University of California (Los Angeles), 1969-83.
- Joined the Columbia faculty in 1983.
- Visiting professorships in Jerusalem, 1972-73 and 1993; Harvard, 1973-74; Yale, 1977; Frankfurt, 1980; Budapest, 1990; Brussels, 1991; Toronto, 2001; and Hamburg, 2002.
Associations & Honors
- Associated with the Hartman Center in Jerusalem and the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg.
- Winner of the German Wissenschaftspreis 1995.
- Delivered Storrs Lectures at Yale, 2001.
- Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004).
Books
- Rethinking Criminal Law (1978), which received an Order of the Coif award (1980)
- A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial (1988), which received the ABA Silver Gavel Award (1989)
- Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships (1993)
- With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials (1995)
- Basic Concepts of Legal Thought (1996); Basic Concepts of Criminal Law (1998)
- Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy (2001), designated by the American Association of Publishers as the best book on law published in 2001
- Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism (2002)
- American Law in a Global Context: The Basics, co-authored with Steve Sheppard (2005)
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