Daryl Levinson, "The Inevitability and Indeterminacy of Game Theoretic Accounts of Legal Order"

How Law Works: Perspectives from Economics, Psychology, Political Science, and Philosophy

A Conference on Richard McAdams’ The Expressive Powers of Law and Frederick Schauer’s The Force of Law

Daryl Levinson is David Boies Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Intellectual Life at NYU. He has also held faculty appointments at Virginia and, more recently, Harvard, where he was the Fessenden Professor of Law and a faculty fellow of the Harvard Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics. His primary field of teaching and research is constitutional law, but Levinson’s scholarship has ranged more broadly, addressing topics such as group punishment, empire-building government, and political entrenchment. Levinson has received the Sacks-Freund teaching award at Harvard and the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU. Levinson received his B.A. from Harvard University, and earned his J.D. and an M.A. in English and modern studies from the University of Virginia. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Recorded October 9, 2015, at the University of Chicago Law School.