# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-raz
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:32:51.523Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-raz"
name: "Joseph Raz"
slug: "joseph-raz"
description: "Joseph Raz was an Israeli legal, moral and political philosopher. He was an advocate of legal positivism and is known for his conception of perfectionist liberalism. Raz spent most of his career as a professor of philosophy of law at Balliol College, Oxford, and was latterly a part-time professor of law at Columbia University Law School and a part-time professor at King's College London. He received the Tang Prize in Rule of Law in 2018."
tagline: "Israeli philosopher (1939–2022)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1939-03-21"
deathDate: "2022-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump