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Joseph Raz is Columbia Law School’s Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law Emeritus and a leading expert in moral, legal, and political philosophical thought. He earned a D. Phil from Oxford University and a Magister Juris from Hebrew University.

In 2018, Raz was awarded the Tang Prize in Rule of Law for his trailblazing work in legal philosophy. He is well known for his lectures, the most notable of which are the Minerva lecture on Human Rights, given at Tel Aviv University in 2006, as well as the Plenary Lecture at the World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy or Law and Social Philosophy in Beijing in 2009. His most recent prestigious lecture was the Howison Lecture, delivered at UC Berkeley in 2018.

Raz has also been a part-time Research Professor at King’s College, London since 2011. He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Toronto, Princeton University, Australian National University, Yale Law School, University of Oxford, Complutensa University in Madrid, and Balliol College. A fellow of the British Academy since 1987, Raz has been the recipient of honorary doctorates from schools such as Katholieke Universieteit of Brussels, King’s College, London, and The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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According to Wikipedia, 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 the University of Oxford associated with Balliol College, 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.

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Published Papers

The Morality of Freedom. (1987) (1806)
The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality (1979) (720)
National self-determination (1990) (594)
Practical Reason and Norms (1975) (530)
The Authority of Law (1983) (511)
Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics (1996) (302)
Facing Diversity: The Case of Epistemic Abstinence (1995) (288)
Ethics In The Public Domain (1994) (275)
Legal Principles and the Limits of Law (1972) (251)
Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action (2001) (214)
From Normativity to Responsibility (2012) (209)
The concept of a legal system (1970) (199)
Disagreement in Politics (1998) (197)
The Problem of Authority: Revisiting the Service Conception (2007) (194)
The Concept of a Legal System: An Introduction to the Theory of Legal System (1980) (169)
Authority, Law and Morality (1985) (168)
Between authority and interpretation (2009) (160)
Human Rights Without Foundations (2007) (151)
On the Nature of Rights (1984) (117)
Kelsen's Theory of the Basic Norm (1974) (115)
Voluntary Obligations and Normative Powers (1972) (115)
Value, Respect, and Attachment (2001) (110)
Between Authority and Interpretation: On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason (2009) (102)
Incommensurability and Agency (2002) (93)
Two Views of the Nature of the Theory of Law: A Partial Comparison (1998) (90)
The Myth of Instrumental Rationality (2017) (86)
Justifying Toleration: Autonomy, toleration, and the harm principle (1988) (83)
Human Rights in the Emerging World Order (2010) (81)
Law, Morality and Society (1978) (81)
The practice of value (2003) (76)
The Rule of Law and its Virtue (2017) (69)
Reasons for Action, Decisions and Norms (1975) (68)
Explaining Normativity: On Rationality and the Justification of Reason (1999) (65)
Comments on The Morality of Freedom (2016) (64)
On the Authority and Interpretation of Constitutions: Some Preliminaries (2009) (63)
Can There Be a Theory of Law (2007) (60)
Promises in Morality and Law (1982) (57)
HART ON MORAL RIGHTS AND LEGAL DUTIES (1984) (56)
INCORPORATION BY LAW (2004) (55)
Facing Up: A Reply (1989) (54)
Free Expression and Personal Idenification (1991) (51)
About Morality and the Nature of Law (2003) (48)
Responsibility and the Negligence Standard (2010) (41)
VII—Value Incommensurability: Some Preliminaries (1986) (40)
Law, Morality, and Society: Essays in Honour of H. L. A. Hart (1978) (40)
The truth in particularism (2000) (40)
Right-Based Moralities (1986) (38)
Multiculturalism: a Liberal Perspective (2017) (38)
The Purity of the Pure Theory (1999) (37)
Rights and Politics (1995) (36)
On Respect, Authority, and Neutrality: A Response (2010) (35)
Numbers, with and without contractualism (2003) (33)
Authority and Consent (1981) (33)
The Obligation to Obey the Law (1979) (32)
Reasons: Practical and Adaptive (2007) (32)
Reasons: Practical and Adaptive (2007) (32)
Reasons: Practical and Adaptive (2007) (32)
Rights and Individual Well‐Being (1992) (31)
On the nature of law (1996) (31)
The Law's Own Virtue (2019) (30)
The Obligation to Obey: Revision and Tradition (2014) (29)
The Claims of Reflective Equilibrium (1982) (27)
The Role of Well-Being (2004) (27)
The Politics of the Rule of Law (1990) (25)
Intention in Interpretation (1999) (25)
Reasons: Explanatory and Normative (2007) (25)
Postema on Law's Autonomy and Public Practical Reasons: A Critical Comment (1998) (25)
Agency, Reason, and the Good (2002) (23)
The Identity of Legal Systems (1971) (23)
On the Autonomy of Legal Reasoning (1993) (22)
When We Are Ourselves: The Active and the Passive (2002) (21)
The Trouble with Particularism (Dancy's Version) (2006) (21)
Liberalism, Autonomy, and the Politics of Neutral Concern (1982) (21)
Legal Positivism and the Sources of Law (1979) (21)
On Lawful Governments (1970) (20)
Dworkin: A New Link in the Chain (1986) (19)
Duties of Well-Being (1995) (18)
The Argument from Justice, or How Not to Reply to Legal Positivism (2007) (18)
Reasoning with Rules (2001) (18)
Government by Consent (1995) (17)
Respect for Law (1979) (17)
Human Rights in the New World Order (2009) (17)
Liberalism, Scepticism, and Democracy (1995) (16)
The Central Conflict: Morality and Self‐Interest (2002) (14)
Principles of Equality (1978) (13)
Liberty and Trust (2001) (12)
Rethinking Exclusionary Reasons: A Second Edition of Joseph Raz's "Practical Reason and Norms"@@@Practical Reason and Norms (1993) (12)
The Functions of Law (1979) (12)
H. L. A. Hart (1907–1992) (1993) (11)
Reasons for Action: Reasons: practical and adaptive (2009) (11)
Moral Change and Social Relativism (1994) (11)
Is There a Reason to Keep Promises (2012) (11)
Law and Value in Adjudication (1979) (11)
Legal Reasons, Sources, and Gaps* (1979) (11)
PROFESSOR A. ROSS AND SOME LEGAL PUZZLES (1972) (10)
Professor Dworkin's Theory of Rights (1978) (10)
Explaining Normativity: Reason and the Will (2002) (9)
Normativity: The Place of Reasoning: Normativity: The Place of Reasoning (2015) (9)
Instrumental Rationality: A Reprise (2017) (9)
The Morality of Obedience (1985) (9)
Practical Conflicts: Personal Practical Conflicts (2004) (9)
The Inner Logic of the Law (1995) (9)
On The Guise of the Good (2008) (8)
Morality as Interpretation (1991) (8)
A Hedgehog's Unity of Value (2014) (7)
Hans Kelsen, Essay in legal and moral philosophy (1976) (7)
Reason, Reasons and Normativity (2008) (7)
BEING IN THE WORLD (2010) (7)
Cow´s milk protein intolerance: Epidemiological study (1989) (7)
The concept of law [Clarendon Press, 1994] (1994) (6)
Objectivity in Law and Morals: Notes on Value and Objectivity (2000) (6)
The Claims of Law (1979) (6)
I–Joseph Raz (1997) (6)
Death in Our Life (2013) (6)
Interpretation: Pluralism and Innovation (2009) (6)
A Right to Dissent? I.Civil Disobedience (1979) (6)
The problem about the nature of law (1982) (6)
How Perfect Should One Be? And Whose Culture Is? (1999) (6)
Interpretation Without Retrieval (2009) (5)
Personal Well‐Being (1988) (5)
On the Value of Distributional Equality (2008) (5)
THE INSTITUTIONAL NATURE OF LAW1 (1975) (5)
Darwall on Rational Care (2006) (5)
Agency and Luck (2009) (5)
Normative Powers (2019) (5)
Why the State (2014) (5)
The Future of State Sovereignty (2017) (4)
On Waldron's Critique of Raz on Human Rights (2018) (4)
Comments and Responses (2003) (4)
The Guise of the Bad (2017) (4)
The Force of Numbers (2004) (3)
On the Moral Point of View (2002) (3)
The Practice of Value - Reply (2007) (3)
Value: A Menu of Questions (2011) (3)
The Value of Practice (2002) (3)
The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings (1998) (3)
Reasons in Conflict (2011) (3)
A Morality Fit for Humans (1993) (3)
Value and the Weight of Practical Reasons (2014) (3)
Intention and value (2015) (2)
Value, Respect, and Attachment: Respecting people (2001) (2)
Value, Respect, and Attachment: Attachment and uniqueness (2001) (2)
THINKING AND DOING: The Philosophical Foundations of Institutions, by Hector‐Neri Castañeda (1977) (2)
On Normativity and Responsibility: Responses (2013) (2)
Speaking With One Voice: On Dworkinian Integrity and Coherence (2007) (2)
On reasons for action (1999) (2)
Normativity: The Place of Reasoning (2014) (2)
Is There a Reason to Keep a Promise? (2022) (2)
The Justification of Authority (1988) (2)
Postscript to the Second Edition: Rethinking exclusionary reasons (1999) (2)
Reason, Rationality, and Normativity (2011) (2)
More on Explaining Value: Replies and Comparisons (2005) (1)
Intention and Motivation (2017) (1)
Autonomy and Pluralism (1988) (1)
Legal Systems as Systems of Laws (1980) (1)
Value, Respect, and Attachment: Universality and difference (2001) (1)
Authority and Reason (1988) (1)
Value, Respect, and Attachment: Introduction (2001) (1)
Rescuing Jerry from (Basic) Principles (2010) (1)
Kelsen’s Theory of Legal System (1980) (1)
Susan Wolf on the Meaning of Life: A Review (2010) (1)
Law and Moral Obligation (1982) (1)
SORENSEN: VAGUENESS HAS NO FUNCTION IN LAW (2001) (1)
The Authority of States (1988) (1)
Value, Respect, and Attachment: The value of staying alive (2001) (1)
Liberty and Rights (1988) (1)
On Dancy’s account of practical reasoning (2020) (1)
Por qué interpretar (1996) (1)
Human rights: A critique of the Raz/Rawls approach: On Waldron's critique of raz on human rights (2018) (0)
Elements of a Theory of Norms (1980) (0)
LEGAL POSITIVISM: 5V4 MYTHS (2012) (0)
Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis (2013) (0)
The Value of Rationality, by Ralph Wedgwood (2018) (0)
Notes for Contributors (1985) (0)
Consequentialism: An Introduction (1988) (0)
Postscript Sources, Normativity, and Individuation1 (1980) (0)
Rejoinders to Hart on Rules and Rights (1979) (0)
On the Socratic Maxim (2000) (0)
On the Individuation of Laws (1980) (0)
RAZIAN AUTHORITY AND LAW RAZIAN AUTHORITY AND LAW By JAMES SPECYAL, B.A. A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts (2012) (0)
Can Moral Principles Change (2017) (0)
Consequences of Utilitarianism. By D. H. Hodgson. [Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1967, 187 pp. 35s.] (1968) (0)
PHS volume 54 Cover and Front matter (2004) (0)
Attachments and Associated Reasons (2011) (0)
Normativity (2022) (0)
Review: Aspects of Reason (2003) (0)
Are there commendatory reasons? (2021) (0)
Book reviews (1975) (0)
On the Existence of Legal Systems (1980) (0)
LegaL principLes in croatian LegaL science: 1 FundamentaL character and indeterminacy (2020) (0)
On the Moral Significance of Sacrifice (2018) (0)
Identity and Social Bonds (2018) (0)
More Essays in Legal Philosophy: General Assessments of Legal Philosophies (1973) (0)
Neutral Political Concern (1988) (0)
THE TRUE SCOPE OF RING (2018) (0)
1981 Authority and Consent (2019) (0)
Respect, Authority & Neutrality (2010) (0)
A Right to Dissent? II.Conscientious Objection (1979) (0)
Austin’s Theory of Legal System (1980) (0)
Wolf, Susan.The Meaning of Life and Why It Matters. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. 160. $24.95 (cloth). (2010) (0)
Review: Ralph Wedgwood, The Value of Rationality (2018) (0)
Freedom and Autonomy (1988) (0)
The Democratic Deficit (2018) (0)
Grand Valley State Plural Cultures , Contested Territories : „ „ o o (2009) (0)
Why Interpret?1 (2009) (0)
The Exclusion of Ideals (1988) (0)
Can Basic Moral Principles Change? (2022) (0)
Non-mandatory norms (1999) (0)
Legal Systems as Systems of Norms (1980) (0)
The Moral Impact Theory of Law (2020) (0)
The Roots of Normativity (2022) (0)
The Problem of Political Freedom (1988) (0)
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 14, no. 2 (2018) (0)
Respect, Authority & Neutrality: A Response (2010) (0)
Normativity and the Other (2021) (0)
What is the difference between conceptual and moral relativism? Rejecting the nature-value contrast, with help from Joseph Raz (0)

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