George P. Fletcher

George P. Fletcher is the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University School of Law. [ [http://www.columbia.edu/~gpf1/web_pages/CV.html Fletcher Curriculum Vitae ] ]

Fletcher attended Cornell University from 1956 to 1959, studying mathematics and Russian. He received a B.A. in 1960 from University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. in 1964 from the University of Chicago. He studied at the University of Freiburg from 1964 to1965 and received a Masters in Comparative Law in 1965 from the University of Chicago.

Fletcher is a noted expert on criminal law. His widely-taught book "Rethinking Criminal Law" is a "well known time-honored classic of criminal law jurisprudence and the most cited scholarly book on criminal law." Fletcher was honored on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication with a "Symposium: Twenty-Five Years of George Fletcher's Rethinking Criminal Law." [ Symposium: Twenty-Five Years of George Fletcher's Rethinking Criminal Law, RUSSELL CHRISTOPHER, University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 39, pp. 737-994, Summer 2004 ]

Books

* "Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why", co-authored with Jens Ohlin Oxford University Press 2008

* "Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy" (Oxford 2001) was honored as the best book on law published in 2001.

* "With Justice for Some: Victims’ Rights in Criminal Trials" (Addison Wesley 1995), quoted by Marsha Clark in the O.J. Simpson trial.

* "Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships" (Oxford 1993), praised by William Safire twice in his column in the New York Times, translated in French, German, and Spanish.

* "A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial" (Free Press 1988) received the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, translated into German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.

* "Rethinking Criminal Law" (Little Brown 1978) received the Order-of-Coif award as one of the best books published on law in the late 1970s

* "Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism "(Princeton University Press, 2002)

* "Basic Concepts of Criminal Law" (Oxford University Press, 1998) (Spanish edition, 1997; Russian edition, 1998; Italian edition forthcoming)

* "Basic Concepts of Legal Thought" (Oxford University Press, 1996)

* "With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials" (Addison-Wesley,1995) (paperback, 1996; Spanish edition, 1996)

* "Introduzione Elementare alla Scienza Giuridica" (II. Cardozo Lectures in Law)

* "Justification and Excuse: Comparative Perspectives", Volumes I and II (ed. with A. Eser 1987)

* "Courts of Terror" (Fletcher, Dershowitz et al. eds., Knopf 1976)

Honors

* Winner of the German Wissenschaftspreis 1995.
* Delivered Storrs Lectures at Yale, 2001.
* Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004).

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