Professor Matthew Kramer FBA

Political, moral, and legal philosophy: deontological ethics; justice; moral realism as a moral doctrine; legal positivism and legal objectivity; rights and freedom

Elected 2014

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2014
Sections: Philosophy, Law, Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
Website: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/mh-kramer/51

Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is the Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy. He is the author of 16 books and the co-editor of four additional books. His work covers many areas of political, moral, and legal philosophy. His most recently published book is H.L.A. Hart: The Nature of Law (Polity Press, 2018).

Current post

Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge

Publications

Liberalism with Excellence

Matthew H. Kramer - Published in 2017 by Oxford University Press

Torture and Moral Integrity

Matthew H. Kramer - Published in 2014 by Oxford University Press

The Ethics of Capital Punishment

Matthew H. Kramer - Published in 2011 by Oxford University Press

Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine

Matthew H. Kramer - Published in 2009 by Wiley-Blackwell

Objectivity and the Rule of Law

Matthew H. Kramer - Published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press

Where Law and Morality Meet

Matthew H. Kramer - Published in 2004 by Oxford University Press

H.L.A. Hart: The Nature of Law

Matthew H. Kramer - Published in 2018 by Wiley

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