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About Martin J. Stone

Professor Stone joined the Cardozo faculty after 10 years at Duke University, where he held a joint appointment in the law school and the philosophy department and was an adjunct professor in the literature program. He has taught at Cornell University, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Michigan, The Committee on Social Thought at University of Chicago, and is currently an adjunct professor of philosophy at the New School University Graduate Faculty.

Among his many honors, he graduated from Brandeis summa cum laude with highest departmental honors, was a Marshall Scholar at Balliol College, was a fellow at the National Humanities Center, and won the George Plimpton Adams Prize for his doctoral dissertation. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. One of the nation's leading scholars of the philosophy of law, Professor Stone has written widely on torts, Kant, Wittgenstein, formalism, and interpretation. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Professor Stone is an accomplished pianist, having studied at the California Institute of the Arts and the Tanglewood Music Festival.

Positions

2002 - Present Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, The New School
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2002 - Present Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2018 Humbolt Visiting Professor, Leipzig University
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2014 Hans Kohut Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
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2011 Adjunct Professor, Princeton University
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2011 Visiting Professor of Law, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
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2009 Visiting Professor of Law, University of Southern California
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2007 - 2008 Visiting Professor of Law, University of Southern California
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2005 Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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2001 - 2002 Visiting Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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1997 - 2001 Adjunct Professor, Program in Literature, Duke University
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1996 - 2001 Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Duke University
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1997 Visiting Faculty, Cornell University
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1996 Visiting Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
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1992 - 1996 Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy, Duke University
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1991 - 1992 Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, Harvard University
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1989 - 1992 Assistant Professor of Law and Philosophy, Duke University
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1987 - 1988 Instructor in Philosophy, Balliol College, University of Oxford
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Disciplines

Law

Research Interests

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Professional Service and Affiliations

1996 - Present Member, Committee on Journals and Electronic Publishing, Duke University
1994 - Present Coordinator, Duke Law School Legal Theory Workshop, Duke University
2000 Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, Duke University
2000 Board Member, Law & Contemporary Problems, Duke University
1999 Member, Law School Admissions Committee, Duke University
1999 Member, Law School Curriculum Committee, Duke University
1999 Member, Law School Placement Committee, Duke University
1997 Member, Law School Appointments Committee, Duke University
1994 - 1997 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Duke University Press
1994 - 1996 Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, Duke University
1994 - 1996 Member, Law Library Committee, Duke University
1994 Moderator, Annual Currie Lecture, Duke University
1993 - 1994 Faculty Committee, Journal of Law & Contemporary Problems, Duke University
1992 - 1994 Member, Ad-Hoc Committee on the first year curriculum, Duke University
1993 Moderator, Annual Currie Lecture, Duke University
1992 - 1993 Member, Law Library Committee, Duke University
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Honors and Awards

  • Faculty Fellowship (Harvard University Center for Ethics, 2005)
  • Fellow (National Humanities Center, 1998-1999)
  • George Plimpton Adams Prize (Harvard University, 1996)
  • Graduate Merit Fellowship (Harvard University, 1992)
  • Junior Fellowship (Michigan Society of Fellows, 1991)
  • Fellow (University of California Irvine Humanities Research Institute, 1989)
  • Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Philosophy (New York University, 1988)
  • Bost Research Professorship (Duke University Law School, 1988)
  • Marshall Scholarship (University of Oxford, 1985-1988)
  • Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (1985)
  • Doris Brewer Cohen Prize (Brandeis University, 1982)
  • Josephine and Samuel H. Cohen Prize (Brandeis University, 1982)
  • Louis D. Brandeis Scholar (Brandeis University, 1982)
  • Theodore and Edith Brown Scholarship Prize (University of California, 1979)
  • California Regents Scholar (1978)

Education

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1996 Ph.D., Harvard University
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1988 B. Phil., Oxford University
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1985 J.D., Yale University
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1982 B.A., Brandeis University
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Articles & Essays (6)

Books & Edited Works (2)

Chapters (3)

Presentations (3)