DAVID A.J. RICHARDS
About The Author
DAVID A.J. RICHARDS
David A. J. Richards received his B.A. from Harvard College (1966), his J.D. from Harvard Law School (1971), and his Ph.D. in moral philosophy from Oxford University (1971). His doctoral dissertation was published by Oxford University Press as A Theory of Reasons for Action in 1971.
He is currently Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University, where he has taught Constitutional Law and Criminal Law for fifty years. He co-taught the seminars Resisting Injustice with the developmental psychologist Carol Gilligan and Retributivism in Criminal Justice (Shakespeare) with the psychiatrist Jim Gilligan, with whom he coauthored Holding a Mirror up to Nature: Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeare (2021).
The author of over 25 books, Richards's more recent books
include, Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law: Obama’s
Challenge to Patriarchy’s Threat to Democracy (2013); Resisting Injustice
and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Age of Obama: “Suddenly, All the
Truth Was Coming Out” (2013); Why Love Leads to Justice: Love Across
the Boundaries (2015); Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence
and Feminist Resistance (with Carol Gilligan, 2018); Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves: a Memoir (2019); Holding a Mirror Up to Nature (with James Gilligan, 2021), Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.: Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies (2023); Love and Violence: Insights from Shakespeare in Ethics, Psychology, Theater and Law (2023).
David A.J. Richards Selected Bibliography:
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A Theory of Reasons for Action (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971);
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Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law: An Essay on Human Rights and Overcriminalization (Totowa, N. J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1982);
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Toleration and the Constitution New York: Oxford University Press (1986);
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Foundations of American Constitutionalism (New York: Oxford University Press 1989);
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Conscience and the Constitution: History, Theory and Law of the Reconstruction Amendments (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993);
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Women, Gays, and the Constitution: The Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998);
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Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity (New York: New York University Press, 1999);
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Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999);
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Free Speech and the Politics of Identity (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999);
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Tragic Manhood and Democracy: Verdi’s Voice and the Powers of Musical (Brighton, UK: Sussex University Press, 2004);
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Disarming Manhood: Roots of Ethical Resistance (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, Swallows Press, 2005);
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Nicholas C. Bamforth and David A.J. Richards, Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality and Gender: A Critique of New Natural Law (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008);
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Carol Gilligan and David A.J. Richards, The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009);
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Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law: Obama’s Challenge to Patriarchy’s Threat to Democracy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010);
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The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire: Liberal Resistance and the Bloomsbury Group (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010);
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Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Age of Obama: “Suddenly, All the Truth Was Coming Out “(New York, Routledge, 2010);
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Carol Gilligan and David A.J. Richards, Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018);
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Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves: a Memoir (Bloomington, IND, Xlibris, 2019)
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James Gilligan and David A.J. Richards, Holding a Mirror up to Nature: Shame, Guilt and Violence in Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 2021)
