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Joseph Raz

Joseph Raz
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Raz, February 2009
Born (1939-03-21) 21 March 1939 (age 77)
Mandate Palestine
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Legal positivism
Liberalism
Main interests
Legal and political philosophy

Joseph Raz (Hebrew: יוסף רז‎‎; born 21 March 1939) is an Israeli legal, moral and political philosopher. He is one of the most prominent advocates of legal positivism and is well 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, but is now a professor of law at Columbia University Law School and a part-time professor at King's College London.

Born in Mandate Palestine in 1939, Joseph Raz graduated in 1963 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a Magister Juris (summa cum laude). Later, with funds provided by the Hebrew University, Raz pursued a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford under the supervision of H. L. A. Hart. Raz had met Hart earlier at a conference in Israel, impressing him by pointing out a flaw in his reasoning that had previously eluded him; Hart encouraged him to go to Oxford for further study. Raz studied at Balliol College and completed his DPhil in 1967.


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