Andrei Marmor
· Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy and Law Co-Director of Ethics and Public Life Philosophy, Program on Ethics and Public LifeCornell University · Philosophy
Active 1987–2025
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About
Andrei Marmor is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy and Law at Cornell University. His work encompasses the philosophy of law, discrimination, interpretation, and moral dilemmas in law. He is involved in teaching and research related to these areas, contributing to academic discussions and publications. His professional profile includes appearances on platforms such as the Dare to Know Podcast, and he is recognized for his expertise in legal philosophy and moral reasoning.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Computer Science
- Sociology
- Computer Security
- Business
- Law
- Internet privacy
- World Wide Web
- Philosophy
- Epistemology
Selected publications
Foundations of Institutional Reality
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2022 · 21 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract The book provides a novel account of the ontological foundations of institutional facts, and argues that there are some important epistemic and methodological implications that follow from this ontology. The first part of the book offers a detailed reductive account of institutional facts by way of metaphysical grounding. It shows that an ontology of institutional facts requires an ontology of social rules, and the latter depends on a reductive account of collective attitudes. The book…
Constitutionalism, Liberalism, and Democracy
2021-03-11 · 3 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This chapter describes the tension between democratic decision-making procedures and constitutional judicial review. It shows that the liberal values that justify a democratic self-government may also vindicate some limits on majoritarian decision-making procedures, but not necessarily in the form of the current constitutional regimes. The chapter argues that constitutional courts are not a necessary feature of a liberal regime. It also acknowledges that democratic decision-making has m…
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2021 · 2 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract Most people’s immediate concern about privacy in social media, and about the internet more generally, relates to data protection. People fear that information they post on various platforms is potentially abused by corporate entities, governments, or even criminals, in all sorts of nefarious ways. The main premise of this chapter is that concerns about data protection, legitimate and serious as they may be, are not, mostly, about the right to privacy. Privacy is about control over the p…
What <i>Is</i> Law and What <i>Counts</i> as Law? The Separation Thesis in Context
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2021-01-21 · 2 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingMarmor considers the separation thesis, which he understands as saying that whether a given norm is legally valid depends on its sources, not its merits; and this means that he is concerned with the separation thesis conceived as a thesis about legal status, not as a thesis about the content of legal statements. Observing that the distinction between sources and merits is very close to the distinction between is and ought, he considers the objection that the separation thesis cannot be upheld be…
Law as authoritative fiction 1
2020-04-14 · 2 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThere are several aspects of law that seem to be connected, but it is not entirely clear why and how. For one, law is an artifact; it is deliberately created by humans to serve some purposes. Furthermore, the law is created and modified by saying things; the law is one of those domains, like fiction, in which the saying so makes it so. But very much unlike fiction, law is an authoritative institution, and its authority is spacio-temporal, tied to location and relative to time. The main purpose o…
Frequent coauthors
- 2 shared
Federico José Arena
Centro Científico Tecnológico - Córdoba
- 2 shared
David Enoch
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2 shared
Jeremy Waldron
New York University
- 1 shared
Leslie Green
- 1 shared
Enrique Villanueva
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- 1 shared
Robert Posi
- 1 shared
Joseph Raz Miriam Rodgers
- 1 shared
Julie Dixon
Mental Health Commission
Awards & honors
- Neil Lubow Prize
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