Eric J. Mitnick
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
and 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
Dean 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. Dean 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
Books
Rights, Groups, and Self-Invention: Group-Differentiated Rights in Liberal Theory (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2006)
Articles, Book Chapters and Other Article-Length Works
Procedural Due Process and Reputational Harm: Liberty as Self-Invention, 43 U.C. Davis L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2009)
Law, Cognition, and Identity, 67 Louisiana L. Rev. 823 (2007)
Differentiated Citizenship and Contextualized Morality, 7 Eth. Theory and Moral Prac. 163 (2004)
Three Models of Group-Differentiated Rights, 35 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 215 (2004)
Individual Vulnerability and Cultural Transformation, 101 Michigan L. Rev. 1635 (2003)
Liberalism and Membership, 4 Univ. Penn. 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.