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Brian Leiter

American philosopher and legal scholar · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1963 · age 63

Brian Russell Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law School and affiliated faculty in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, as well as founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values.

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A review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews described Leiter as "one of the most influential legal philosophers of our time", while a review in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies described Leiter's book Nietzsche on Morality (2002) as "arguably the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the past twenty years."

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Born 1963 · age 63

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