James Gordley is W.R. Irby Professor of Law at Tulane Law School and Shannon Cecil Turner Professor of Law, emeritus, at Berkeley Law School.  His interest is in how law and philosophy have interacted over the course of history.  He is the author of Foundations of American Contract Law (Oxford University Press. 2023), The Eclipse of Classical Thought in China and the West (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Jurists: A Critical History (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Foundations of Private Law (Oxford University Press, 2006).  He has received the Lifetime Service Award of the American Society of Comparative Law.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and a membre titulaire of the Académie internationale du droit comparé.