Joshua Kleinfeld

Kleinfeld, Joshua

Assistant Professor of Law
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Philosophy

Phone: 312-503-2824
E-mail: joshua.kleinfeld@northwestern.edu

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Joshua Kleinfeld writes and teaches about criminal law, international law, and moral, political, and legal philosophy.  Much of his work uses philosophical tools to bring to light the values implicit in legal doctrine and practice.  He received a JD and BA from Yale University and is a PhD candidate in philosophy with Axel Honneth and Rainer Forst at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.

Areas of Expertise

  • Criminal Law
  • Public International Law
  • Moral and Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Law

Courses

Selected Publications

  • Skeptical Internationalism: A Study of Whether International Law Is Law in 78 fordham law review 2451 (2010).
  • The Enforcement of Law and the Nature of Law in 121 yale law journal online (2011).
  • Victims and Victimizers: A Study of the Normative Order of Criminal Law
  • Redressive Justice (with Jörg Schaub)

Education

  • BA, Yale College
  • JD, Yale Law School
  • PhD in Philosophy (expected), Goethe University Frankfurt

Prior Appointments

  • Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton
  • Law Clerk, Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • Law Clerk, Hon. Janice Rogers Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
  • Law Clerk (summer), Hon. Aharon Barak, President (Chief Justice), Supreme Court of Israel
  • Senior Research Analyst, The President's Council on Bioethics