Eric J. Mitnick
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
and Associate Professor of Law
Ph.D., Princeton University;
M.A., Princeton University;
J.D., University of Michigan,
cum laude;
A.B., Cornell University
Telephone: 619.374.6909
Email: emitnick@tjsl.edu
Professor Mitnick joined the Thomas Jefferson faculty in the fall of 2000 and became Associate Dean in 2007. Following law school, he practiced law as an associate with a large firm in New York City, focusing primarily on complex financial litigation. He has since been the recipient of research fellowships from Princeton University, where he was a graduate student in the Department of Politics, and from the Mellon Foundation. Professor Mitnick’s current research is in the areas of rights, liberalism and multicultural theory, with recent articles appearing in prominent journals including the Wake Forest Law Review, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and the Michigan Law Review. His book, Rights, Groups, and Self-Invention: Group-Differentiated Rights in Liberal Theory, was published in Fall 2006, by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Scholarship
Rights, Groups, and Self-Invention: Group-Differentiated Rights in Liberal Theory (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2006)
Books
Articles, Book Chapters and Other Article-Length Works
Law, Cognition, and Identity, 67 Louisiana L. Rev. 823 (2007)
Differentiated Citizenship and Contextualized Morality, 7 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 163 (2004)
Three Models of Group-Differentiated Rights, 35 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 215 (2004)
Individual Vulnerability and Cultural Transformation, reviewing Ayelet Shachar, Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001), 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1635 (2003)
Liberalism and Membership, reviewing Brian M Barry, Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critque of Multiculturalism (Harvard Univ. Press, 2001), 4 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 533 (2002)
Constitutive Rights, 20 Oxford J. Legal Studies 185 (2000)
Taking Rights Spherically: Formal and Collective Aspects of Legal Rights, 34 Wake Forest L. Rev. 409 (1999)
Subjects Include:
Administrative Law, Professional Responsibility, Torts.