Professor Matthew Kramer FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2014
- Subjects
- Law, Philosophy, Politics
Summary
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 20 books and the co-editor of four additional books. His work is celebrated in a lengthy festschrift – 'Without Trimmings: The Legal, Political, and Moral Philosophy of Matthew Kramer' – published in early 2022 by the Oxford University Press. His work covers many areas of political, moral, and legal philosophy. His most recently published book is 'Legal Rights and Moral Rights' (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Current post
University of Cambridge Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy
Churchill College, Cambridge Fellow
Publications
Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint
Matthew H. Kramer - Published in 2021 by Oxford University Press
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