Scott Jonathan Shapiro is an American legal scholar who is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale Law School and the Director of Yale's Center for Law and Philosophy and of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab.
Education and career He received his B.A. in philosophy from Columbia College, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. After law school, Shapiro served as a clerk for Judge Pierre Leval on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. At Yale, he teaches in Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw, and Cybersecurity.
He is the author of work in jurisprudence and legal theory, including Legality (2011) He has also edited, with Jules Coleman and Kenneth Einar Himma, the Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (2002). He has been cited for his work on the planning theory of law and for pioneering experimental jurisprudence.Damiano Canale and Giovanni Tuzet, eds, The Planning Theory of Law: A Critical Reading. Springer, 2013. David Plunkett, "The Planning Theory of Law I: The Nature of Legal Institutions", "The Planning Theory of Law II: The Nature of Legal Norms". Philosophy Compass. Volume 8, Issue 2 (2013), 149–158 and 159–169. He serves as an editor of Legal Theory and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
With Oona A. Hathaway, he developed the concept of "outcasting" in international law and has been critical of humanitarian intervention without authorization from the UN Security Council.Oona Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, "On Syria, A U.N. Vote Isn't Optional," New York Times, Sept. 3, 2013. His book with Hathaway, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2017, and received wide acclaim by The New Yorker, The Financial Times, and The Economist, among others.
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Published in the UK as
Articles and working papers Scott J. Shapiro, “The ‘Hart-Dworkin’ Debate: A Short Guide for the Perplexed,” Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series: Working Paper No. 77, 2007, University of Michigan Law School Oona Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, “Outcasting: Enforcement in Domestic and International Law,” Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, No. 2, 252, 2011, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 240
Critical studies and reviews of Shapiro's work The internationalists
European authors
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