Nació en Nueva York en el seno de una familia acomodada, hija de George Craven, un abogado de Filadelfia, y Betty Warren, un ama de casa. Estudió teatro y lenguas clásicas en la Universidad de Nueva York (NYU) (BA 1969), y gradualmente se fue acercando a la filosofía, para finalmente graduarse en Harvard en 1972. Durante esta época se casó con Alan Nussbaum (de quien se divorció en 1987), se convirtió al judaísmo, y nació su hija Rachel.

Enseñó filosofía y letras clásicas en Harvard en los años setenta y a principios de los ochenta, antes de trasladarse a la Universidad de Brown. Uno de sus libros más influyentes, La fragilidad del bien: fortuna y ética en la tragedia y la filosofía griega (The Fragility of Goodness), que tiene como tema la ética antigua, fue particularmente influyente y la convirtió en una figura reconocida en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales. Posteriormente, la valía de su trabajo la hizo merecedora de títulos honoríficos en más de 25 instituciones.

Durante la década de los ochenta, Nussbaum comenzó un trabajo en colaboración con el economista Amartya Sen (Premio Nobel de Economía) en temas relacionados con el desarrollo y la ética. En conjunto con Sen, promovió el concepto de "capacidades" ("libertades sustanciales" como la posibilidad de vivir una larga vida, de llevar a cabo transacciones económicas, o la participación en actividades políticas) como las partes constitutivas del desarrollo, y de la pobreza como una privación de dichas "capacidades". Esto contrasta sobremanera con los acercamientos teóricos que se habían hecho sobre el desarrollo hasta ese momento. Cabe resaltar que mucho de lo que Nussbaum dice en su trabajo se basa en una perspectiva aristotélica.

Nussbaum ha participado con otros intelectuales en debates sobre temas morales, tanto desde revistas semipopulares y críticas de libros, como desde el estrado, testificando en la corte. Sus contrincantes han sido Allan Bloom, John Finnis y Robert P. George, Harvey Mansfield y Judith Butler, entre otros. Por otra parte, también han sido importantes sus obras y sus acciones en defensa de los derechos de la mujer.

En su última obra traducida al español, El ocultamiento de lo humano: repugnancia, vergüenza y ley, hace un profundo estudio de las emociones, algo que ya había empezado a vislumbrarse en obras anteriores suyas. Allí trata temas como el miedo, la vergüenza, la gratitud y el rencor, intenta definir si son impulsos racionales o simplemente sentimientos vinculados con nuestra manera de ver el mundo; se pregunta si estas emociones son universales o si varían dependiendo de la cultura; si dichas emociones se aprenden y, en caso de que la respuesta sea afirmativa, si pueden "desaprenderse" las emociones equivocadas, etc. Todo esto, en un constante transitar entre la filosofía y el derecho.

Obras

En general

• Aristotle's De Motu Animalium (1978)
• The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (1986)
• Love's Knowledge (1990)
• Nussbaum, Martha, y Amartya Sen. The Quality of Life. (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993)
• The Therapy of Desire (1994)
• Poetic Justice (1996)
• For Love of Country (1996)
• Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (1997)
• Sex and Social Justice (1998)
• Women and Human Development (2000)
• Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001)
• Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (2004)
• Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (editado con Cass Sunstein) (2004)
• Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (2005)

Traducidas al español

• La fragilidad del bien: fortuna y ética en la tragedia y la filosofía griega [traducción de Antonio Ballesteros] Madrid: Visor, 1995.
• Justicia poética: la imaginación literaria y la vida pública [traducción de Carlos Gardini]. Barcelona: Andrés Bello, D.L., 1997.
• Los límites del patriotismo: identidad, pertenencia y "ciudadanía mundial", compilado por Joshua Cohen; [traducción de Carme Castells]. Barcelona: Paidós Ibérica, 1999.
• Nussbaum M. y Cass R. Sunstein (eds.) Clones y clones: hechos y fantasías acerca de la clonación humana ; prólogo de Manuel Garrido; [traducción de María Cóndor Orduña]. Madrid: Cátedra, 2000.
• El cultivo de la humanidad: una defensa clásica de la reforma en la educación liberal [traducción de Juana Pailaya] 1ª ed. Barcelona: Andrés Bello, 2001.
• Las mujeres y el desarrollo humano: el enfoque de las capacidades [traducción de Roberto Bernet]. Barcelona: Herder, 2002.
• La terapia del deseo: teoría y práctica en la ética helenística [traducción de Miguel Candel]. Barcelona: Paidós, [2003]
• El conocimiento del amor: ensayos sobre filosofía y literatura [traducción de Rocío Orsi Portalo y Juana María Inarejos Ortiz Boadilla del Monte]. Madrid: A. Machado Libros, 2005.
• El cultivo de la humanidad: una defensa clásica de la reforma en la educación liberal [traducción de Juana Pailaya]. Barcelona: Paidós Ibérica, 2005.
• "El ocultamiento de lo humano: repugnacia, vergüenza y ley" [Traducción de Gabriel Zadunaisky]. Buenos Aires: Katz Editores, 2006
• Las fronteras de la justicia: consideraciones sobre la exclusión [traducción de Ramon Vilà Vernis y Albino Santos Mosquera]. Barcelona: Paidós, 2007.

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Robin West is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, primarily concerned with gender issues, feminist legal theory, constitutional law and theory, philosophy of law, and the law and literature movement.


Allan Hutchinson is a member of Osgoode's faculty since 1982, Professor Allan Hutchinson served as Associate Dean from 1994 to 1996 and later, in 2003, he was named Associate Dean (Research, Graduate Studies and External Relations). Professor Hutchinson is a legal theorist with an international reputation for his original and provocative writings. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and named a Distinguished Research Professor by York University in 2006.  His research interests are law and politics; legal theory; the legal profession; constitutional law; torts; jurisprudence; civil procedure; and racism and law. As well as publishing in most of the common-law world's leading law journals, he has written or edited many books. Much of his work has been devoted to examining the failure of law to live up to its democratic promise. His latest publications are Evolution and the Common Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and The Companies We Keep: Corporate Governance for a Democratic Society (Irwin Law, 2006). In 2007, he received the University-wide Teaching Award and was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.


Jack Balkin is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Balkin is the founder and director of the Yale Information Society Project (ISP), a research center whose mission is "to study the implications of the Internet, telecommunications, and the new information technologies on law and society." He also writes political and legal commentary at a weblog, Balkinization.


Ian Ward 
   
Research Interests

Primary present research interests lie in legal theory and more specifically the relation of law, literature and history. I have also in recent years conducted published research in the areas of English constitutional history and European public law.

 Other Expertise

 Recently completed a concentrated study of English constitutional history and thought, published as 'The English Constitution: Myths and Realities', Hart, 2004.

 Current Work

 Presently conducting research in two particular areas; mid-nineteenth century law and literature, and more specifically still its relation in the novels of the Brontes and Elizabeth Gaskell; and the jurisprudential implications of terrorism and counter-terrorism.

ALGUNAS PUBLICACIONES:

West holds a B.A. and a J.D. (1979) from the University of Maryland and a masters in judicial studies from Stanford. West came to Georgetown after teaching at the University of Maryland Law School from 1986-1991, and at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law from 1982-1985.

Areas of interest: Public Law, Legal Profession, Legal Theory

Having played for Surrey in 1992 and then been released, he was taken back on the staff in 1997, and was an integral part of the side who won the championship three times between 1999-2002. He moved to Sussex in 2003, still keen to receive a recall to the England squad.

Ward played five Tests for England in the 2001 summer against Pakistan and Australia. After a promising debut innings of 39 against Pakistan he subsequently failed to impress, betraying obvious technical problems which were quickly exploited by the Australian attack. He was duly dropped after three Tests of the Ashes series, never to return to international cricket.

Ward's renowned skill at talking a good game led him to become a television commentator. He retired from first-class cricket in 2005 to pursue a career as a full-time cricket presenter and commentator, having worked for Sky Sports for the previous two winters.

Law and Literature, published tri-annually and edited by faculty of the Cardozo School of Law and a board of international scholars, is one of only two journals in the country entirely focused on the interdisciplinary movement known as Law and Literature. The movement, which extols law-related literature and the literary value of legal documents, provides a unique perspective on how law and literature are mutually enlightening.

Issues in private law and public law, restrictions on creative expression, gender and racial bias, hermeneutics (interpretive methodologies), and legal themes in works of literature are among the journal's regular topics.

For further information about Law and Literature, please visit the Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University homepage. 

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Law and Literature: Table of Contents
Current Issue: Vol. 20, No. 1

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
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• Thomas Dixon's A Man of the People: How Lincoln Saved the Union by Cracking Down on Civil Liberties
• The Sovereignty of Pleasure: Sexual and Political Freedom in the Operas of Mozart and Da Ponte
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Volume 9, Number 5 / diciembre de 1995

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American Legal argumentation: The Law and Literature/rhetoric movement

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Critical Legal Studies and argumentation theory

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Formal aspects of Legal reasoning

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Argumentation in ethics, legal dogmatics and legal practice

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Appeal to pity: A case study of theargumentum ad misericordiam

Identity and influence in social interaction

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