Stuart Green's work seeks to explore the underlying moral content of the
criminal law. He is especially concerned with the question of
criminalization--what kinds of behavior are justifiably punished, and
why. His books and articles have focused in particular on the moral
limits of theft, white-collar crime, and a wide range of sexual
offenses.
Professor Green received a B.A. in philosophy from Tufts University
and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a notes editor of the Yale Law Journal.
After law school, he clerked for Judge Pamela Ann Rymer of the U.S.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles and then served as an
associate with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in
Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Green taught at
Louisiana State University Law School.
Green's books--which have been translated, in whole or in part,
into Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, and Korean--include the
award-winning Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime (2006); Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age (2012); and Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (coedited with Antony Duff) (2011). He is currently working on a new book, titled Criminalizing Sex, which will offer a "unified" theory of the nonconsensual and consensual sexual offenses.
The recipient of fellowships from the U.K. Leverhulme Trust and
U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission, Green has served as a visiting professor
or visiting fellow at the Universities of Oxford, Michigan, Melbourne,
Glasgow, and Tel Aviv, and the Australian National University. He is
serving for a total of six months during 2016 and 2017 as a visiting
professor at the London School of Economics.
Professor Green is a founding coeditor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books,
a former consultant to the Law Commission for England and Wales, and a
frequent media commentator on issues in criminal law and ethics.
