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City University of New York Graduate Center
Patricia Smith
- Ph.D. Arizona University
- J.D. Arizona University
patricia_smith [at-sign-here] baruch [put-a-dot-here] cuny [put-a-dot-here] edu
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Research Interests
Issues of social and legal responsibility, distributive justice, and social revolution generally speaking; and more specifically the act/omission distinction in law and morals, the doctrine of positive and negative duty and its implications for liberal theory, and the process and effect of social change on values and obligations. Current major project is a book on omission and responsibility.
Courses Recently Taught
- Philosophy of Law (Fall 2006, 2003)
- Social Change and Enduring Value (Fall 2002)
Representative Publications
- Liberalism and Affirmative Obligation (OUP) 1998
- Feminist Jurisprudence ed. (OUP) 1992
- The Nature and Process of Law, ed. (OUP) 1993
- Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture, ed. (Kansas UP) 2000
- "Criminal Liability and the Failure to Act," Buffalo Criminal Law Rev. Summer, 2001
- "Legal Norms and Social Presumptions," Archives fur Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, forthcoming 2001