Philip Soper, the James V. Campbell Professor Emeritus of Law, began his academic career at Michigan in 1973 where he teaches courses in contracts and legal and moral philosophy.

He is the author of A Theory of Law and The Ethics of Deference, as well as numerous articles on legal and moral philosophy. Following his clerkship, he spent a year studying philosophy at Oxford University, and then practiced two years in the General Counsel's Office at the Council on Environmental Quality in Washington, D.C.

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Education

  • Washington University in St. Louis, summa cum laude

  • Washington University in St. Louis, MA, philosophy

  • Washington University in St. Louis, PhD, philosophy

  • Harvard Law School, JD, magna cum laude, Harvard Law Review

Clerkships

  • Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Byron R. White

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