Joel Feinberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joel Feinberg

American legal philosopher

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1926

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 29-Mar-2004

Profession: university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Joel Feinberg (October 19, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan – March 29, 2004 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American political and legal philosopher.
He is known for his work in the fields of ethics, action theory, philosophy of law, and political philosophy as well as individual rights and the authority of the state.
Feinberg was one of the most influential figures in American jurisprudence of the last fifty years.Feinberg studied at the University of Michigan, writing his dissertation on the philosophy of the Harvard professor Ralph Barton Perry under the supervision of Charles Stevenson.
He taught at Brown University, Princeton University, UCLA and Rockefeller University, and, from 1977, at the University of Arizona, where he retired in 1994 as Regents Professor of Philosophy and Law. Feinberg was internationally distinguished for his research in moral, social and legal philosophy.
His major four-volume work, The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, was published between 1984 and 1988.
Feinberg held many major fellowships during his career and lectured by invitation at universities around the world.
He was an esteemed and highly successful teacher, and many of his students are now prominent scholars and professors at universities across the US.
His former students include Jules Coleman, Russ Shafer-Landau, and Clark Wolf.