Faculty

Liam B. Murphy

  • Herbert Peterfreund Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
Assistant: Omar Andron
  omar.andron@nyu.edu       212.998.6252
Liam B. Murphy

Presentations and Lectures

  • "Legal Practice and the Responsibility of Individuals," Julius Stone Address, Sydney Law School, April, 2025
  • The Herbert Morris Lecture in Law and Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law: "Illusory Moral Rules: How Law Misleads Us about Morality," February, 2017.
  • "Private Law and Public Illusion," Frankfurt Lectures, Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence, Goethe University, Frankfurt. Lecture One: "Artificial Morality." Lecture Two: "The Persistence of an Illusion." May, 2016
  • "Law and Social Illusion," Annual Lecture in Law and Society, Oxford University, June 2013
  • “Responsibility for International Aid: Individual, Collective, and State,” Ethics Program Lecture Series, Agnes Scott College, April 2012
  • “What is Law? And Why Does it Matter?” Kadish Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, February 2010.
  • “When Legal Disagreement Runs Out,” Leon Green '15 Lecture in Jurisprudence, University of Texas, Austin, February, 2009.

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