Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Oberdiek earned his
B.A. in 1995 from Middlebury College, his M.A. in philosophy in 1998
from New York University, and his J.D. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the
University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and 2003, respectively, where he
held a fellowship in the Program in Law and Philosophy and was a senior
editor of the Journal of Constitutional Law.
He also studied
philosophy as a graduate student at Balliol College, Oxford. Prior to
joining the law school faculty, Professor Oberdiek worked as an
associate in the legislative and public policy practice group of Arnold
& Porter LLP, in Washington, D.C. He is admitted to the Bars of
Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Professor Oberdiek's scholarly
interests encompass tort law; administrative law; and legal, political,
and moral philosophy. He is on the board of directors of the Rutgers
Institute for Law and Philosophy and is associate graduate faculty in
the Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Philosophy. In
2005-2006, Professor Oberdiek was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting
Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, as well as
a Fellow in Princeton's Program in Ethics and Pubic Affairs.
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