Acting Dean and Professor of Law
(Associate Graduate Faculty, Philosophy, Rutgers University–New Brunswick). 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 codirector of the Rutgers–Camden
Institute for Law and 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 Public Affairs.
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