Current Students
Graduate Student Handbook
INCOMING 2026-27 STUDENTS: Please disregard the 2025-26 manual below. A new version of the manual, which will be applicable to you all, will become available by the end of July 2026.
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- Excerpt: Degree Requirements
- Excerpt: The Proposition
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- Excerpt: The Dissertation
Specialization in Law & Philosophy
Subject to approval by the Graduate Advisor in Philosophy, the Faculty Director of the Program, and advance consultation with the law school Registrar, philosophy graduate students in their third year or beyond who have academic interests in law and philosophy will be permitted to take up to four law school courses, including courses in first year subjects. Enrollment in any law school course or seminar will require the consent of the instructor.
Graduate students taking law school courses may be permitted with instructor consent to write a paper in lieu of taking an exam and, in any case, would not be subject to the curve applied to law students. These courses will not, typically, be counted toward Ph.D. course requirements, although students may petition the Graduate Advisor for an exception.
Philosophy students who complete four law school courses (only one of which may be the legal theory workshop) each for a grade of B or higher, and who write a substantial research paper on law and philosophy will receive a notation on their departmental transcripts that they have completed the specialization in law and philosophy.
Graduate students interested in completing the specialization should review the law school’s offerings and email Ben Austin and Wil Jones to be added as a specializer. To sign up for classes outside of philosophy, please contact Mark Greenberg, Faculty Director.
Find more information about the specialization in Law & Philosophy on the law school website.
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