Hanoch Sheinman

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rice University; Research Fellow, The Center for Ethics & Public Affairs, Tulane University

I'm a philosopher of law, ethics, and society. My interest in the philosophy of law includes general jurisprudence (the nature of laws and legal systems) and particular legal fields such as contracts and state punishment), as well as constitutional law and theory. My interest in ethics is primarily normative: the normative factors and foundations of ethics. Finally, I'm interested in social philosophy: how do social institutions such as promises work.

Education

LL.B. in Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv August 1988 - June 1992

Magna Cum Laude

B.C.L. in Law, Oxford University, U.K. August 1994 - June 1996

Thesis: Hart's Postscript to the Concept of Law. Supervisor: Joseph Raz. First Class Honors Hart Prize in Jurisprudence and Political Theory

LL.M. in Law, Yale University, New Haven, CT August 1996 - June 1997

Masters. Felix Cohen Prize in Legal Philosophy

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Princeton , Princeton, NJ August 1997 - April 2006

Thesis: Putting Justice in its Place: Three Essays on Law and Justice. Supervisor: John Cooper. Graduate Prize Fellowship, University Center for Human Values

J.S.D. in Law, Yale University, New Haven August 1997 - April 2007

Doctorate in the Science of Law. Thesis: Promise, Practice, Agreement: Essays in Social Philosophy. Supervisor: Anthony Kronman.

Experience

Law Clerk
Israel Supreme Court, Jerusalem

March 1993 - March 1994

Law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Theodore Orr

Assistant
Ministry of Justice, High Court of Justice Petition Department, Jerusalem

September 1992 - March 1993

Assistant to Attorney Osnat Mandel, Hight Court of Justice Petition Department

Correspondent
Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Defense Forces Magazine, Israel

August 1984 - August 1987

Writing articles and conducting interviews for the Israeli army's weekly magazine on a wide range of military and civilian topics.

Publications

Hanoch Sheinman, Ed., Promises and Agreements: Philosophical Papers (2011) , Oxford University Press, New York. www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Political/?view=usa&ci=9780195377958
Hanoch Sheinman, Promise, Obligation, Agreement: An Essay in Social Philosophy , To appear in 2012 (2012) , Oxford University Press, New York.
Hanoch Sheinman, Act and Principle Contractualism (2011) , journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8356600
Hanoch Sheinman, The Conventionality of Promising: A Defence , Jurisprudence (2011)
Hanoch Sheinman, Promise as Practice Reason , Acta Analytica (2008) , www.springerlink.com/content/5hx21234h6420622/
Hanoch Sheinman, The First Virtue of the Law Courts and the First Virtue of the Law , Legal Theory (2007) , journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1433428
Hanoch Sheinman, The Priority of Courts in the General Theory of Law , American Journal of Jurisprudence (2007) , sheinman.rice.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=54
Hanoch Sheinman, Raz on the Social Dependence of Values , The Journal of Moral Philosophy (2006) , sheinman.rice.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=50
Hanoch Sheinman, Are Trade-offs between Justice and Welfare Possible? Calabresi and Dworking on the Normative Foundations of Law and Economics , Maryland Law Review (2005) , sheinman.rice.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=52
Hanoch Sheinman, Are Normal Contracts Normal Promises? , Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2004) , ojls.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/3/517.extract
Hanoch Sheinman, Tort Law and Corrective Justice , Law and Philosophy (2003) , www.springerlink.com/content/w11166pv63817452/
Hanoch Sheinman, Contractual Liability and Voluntary Undertakings , Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2000) , ojls.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/2/205.abstract

Awards

Special Service Award, Baker College, Rice University, (2010)

Andrew W. Mellon Research Seminar, The Mellon Foundation, (2009)

An award for teaching a year-long experimental cross-disciplinary graduate seminar.

Distinguished Faculty Associate, Baker College, Rice University, (2008)

Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, The Woodrow Wilson Foundaiton, (2002)

Graduate Prize Fellowship, Princeton University Center for Human Values, (2001)

Fulbright Fellowship, (1997)

Chevening Fellowship, The British Council, (1995)

Israeli Pegasus Fellowship, The Honorable Society of the Inner Temple

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