Robin B. Kar

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Educational and Professional Background

BA, magna cum laude, Harvard University JD, Yale Law School PhD, University of Michigan

Scholarship

Legal Parallelism and the Separation of Law and Morality (work in progress).

"Hart's Response to Exclusive Legal Positivism," 95 Georgetown Law Journal 393 (2007)

"How an Understanding of the Second Personal Standpoint Can Change Our Understanding of the Law: Hart's Unpublished Response to Exclusive Legal Positivism," Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2005-16 (Idea Paper). This paper was selected for presentation at Yale's Center for Law and Philosophy in 2006.

"The Deep Structure of Law and Morality," 84 Texas Law Review (2006).

Legal Parallelism, UMI Dissertations (2005).

Harm: Its Meaning in Ethics, encyclopedia entry in Ethics (2d rev. ed.) (Salem University Press 2004).

H.L.A. Hart, encyclopedia entry in Ethics (2d rev. ed.) (Salem University Press 2004).

Commentary on Gideon Yaffe, "Mens Rea and Conditional Intent" (presented at the University of Michigan's Spring Colloquium in Philosophy on Moral and Legal Responsibility) (2003).

The Ethics of Judicial Interpretation (speech) (with Judge Sonia Sotomayor) (presented by Judge Sotomayor as an introduction to the National Conference on Legal Ethics, held at Hofstra University School of Law) (2001).

"What Can Bankruptcy Law Tell Us about Article III and Vice Versa?," 60 Montana Law Review 415 (1999).

The Extent of Our Responsibility, in The Eighteenth Century: A Critical Bibliography (1998).

"Legal Analysis and the Perversions of Theory," 106 Yale Law Journal 2685 (1997).

Courses Taught

Jurisprudence, Contracts, Justice [1]