Louis-Philippe Hodgson

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Louis-Philippe Hodgson
Postdoctoral Scholar
B.A., Universite Laval, 1996
M.A., University of Toronto, 1997
Ph.D., Harvard, 2006
hodgson@law.ucla.edu

Louis-Philippe Hodgson is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the UCLA Law and Philosophy Program and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Glendon College, York University, Canada.    He earned a B.A. from Universite Laval in Quebec (1996), a M.A. from the University of Toronto (1997), and a Ph.D. from Harvard in Philosophy (2006).  While at Harvard, he received the Emily and Charles Carrier Prize for outstanding doctoral thesis on a subject in social, political, or moral philosophy.  The title of his dissertation is The Demands of External Freedom: Kantian Social Contract Theory and International Right.

In addition to teaching a course for law students and undergraduates entitled Responsibility and the Law, Hodgson will spend the year investigating a number of philosophical questions from a perspective informed by the work of legal theorists, with a special focus on Kantian theories of contract law.