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Jacob T. Levy received his AB from Brown Unversity (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) with honors in Political Science and his MA and PhD in Politics from Princeton Universty. He has been a National Science Foundation graduate fellow and a Fulbright Scholar at the University College, University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of The Multiculturalism of Fear (Oxford University Press 2000) and is currently writing a book on the historical and contemorary tension between rationalist and pluralist liberalisms. Professor Levy's work in political theory and public law has three related areas of emphasis. One is multiculturalism, ethnicity, and nationalism. He has written on indigenous law and indigenous land rights, especially in Australia and the United States. He has also written on multilingualism and the rights of language minorities, on theories of nationalism, on state apologies to minorities, and on cultural rights. A second area of emphasis, and the subject of his current manuscript-in-progress, is the status of intermediate groups and communities in liberal thought since the eighteenth century. His work examines the competing tendencies to view intermediate groups as sites of freedom and as sites of tyranny, and the corresponding difference between liberals who would allow such groups considerable leeway in their internal governance and those who would not. The history of this debate between rationalist and pluralist strands within liberalism can shed light on current impasses within liberal theory regarding, for example, the rights of cultural and religious minorities, and freedom of association. His third area of study is constitutionalism and jurisprudence, with special attention to the transition from premodern to modern ideas of constitutionalism, constitutional design in ethnically-divided states, legal pluralism, federalism, and constitutional balances between the central state and other bodies. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, a co-director of the University's Political Theory Workshop, and Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the University's Center for Comparative Constitutionalism. Professor Levy is a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and was born in 1971. Related Links Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, and Nationality 18th Century Political Thought Jurisprudence (undergraduate course) Expert Areas Academic Disciplines Political Science |
