Arthur Ripstein is Professor of Law and Philosophy and University Professor. He was appointed to the Department of Philosophy in 1987, promoted to Full Professor in 1996, appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1999, and appointed to the rank of University Professor in 2016. He was awarded the Killam prize in humanities in 2021. He served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy 2011-14 and as Acting Chair 2018-19 and 2024-25. He received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, a master’s degree in law from Yale, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba.
Professor Ripstein’s research and teaching interests include torts, legal theory, political philosophy and Kant. In addition to numerous articles in legal theory and political philosophy, he is the author of Kant and the Law of War (Oxford 2021), Rules for Wrongdoers (Oxford 2021), Private Wrongs (Harvard 2016), Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (Harvard 2009) and Equality, Responsibility and the Law (Cambridge 1999). He is editor of Ronald Dworkin (Cambridge 2007) and co-editor of Waheed Hussein’s posthumous book,, Living with the Invisible Hand, (Oxford University Press, 2023), Law and Morality (Toronto 1996, second edition 2001, third edition 2007), and Practical Rationality and Preference (Cambridge 2001). He was awarded a Killam Fellowship in 2016, and the Killam Prize in 2021, both by the Canada Council for the Arts. He served for 15 years as Associate Editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs. He is a former Associate Editor of Ethics and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, serves on the editorial board of Legal Theory, and is Advisory Editor of the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. His popular work has appeared on Ideas on CBC Radio One.
Video:
Frankfurt Lectures 2024: I. The Idea of the Public II. Giving Laws to Ourselves
Kissel Lecture at Harvard University, “Perpetual War or Perpetual Peace?”
Lecture at University of Girona “A Wrong Personal to You.”
Lecture at Oxford University "Philosophy as Jurisprudence"
Frankfurt Lectures 2024: I. The Idea of the Public II. Giving Laws to Ourselves
Audio:
Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture, King’s College London, “Reclaiming Proportionality.” An interview with Ripstein about the lecture.
Listen to Ripstein’s Tanner Lectures on Human Values “Rules for Wrongdoers,” and “Combatants and Civilians” delivered at Berkeley in April 2019, together with comments from Christopher Kutz, Oona Hathaway, and Jeff McMahan. Read the Transcripts 1 and 2.
Listen to an interview with Ripstein about the Killam prize on CBC Radio Ideas (interview starts at 24:00)
Listen to Ripstein Kant and Private Law on the Private Law Podcast
Listen to Ripstein on Kant and the Law of War on the Conversations on Globalization and Law Podcast
Listen to Ripstein on Kant and the Law of War on the Political Theory Review Podcast
Listen to Ripstein on Kant and the Law of War on the Journal of the History of Philosophy Podcast
Interviews:
Read an interview with Ripstein in Noesis (Interview begins on p. 48)
Read an interview with Ripstein about graduate supervision.
