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John Oberdiek
Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy

John Oberdiek is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy. Educated at Middlebury College, Oxford University, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania, he writes and teaches in tort law and tort theory, as well as in legal, political, and moral philosophy more broadly, and is the author of Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework (Oxford 2017). He has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and a visiting professor at the University of Graz, Austria. In addition, he is Co-Editor of the journal Law and Philosophy and Co-Editor of the biennial Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory series as well as the Oxford Private Law Theory book series.