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Areas of Expertise:

  • Contracts
  • Evidence
  • Human Rights
  • Jurisprudence
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Securities Enforcement

John P. Anderson

 

Education:

  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., May 2003
  • University of Virginia, PhD., Philosophy, May 2000
  • University of California at Berkeley, B.A., Philosophy, May 1994

 

Professional Experience:

  • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP, Washington, D.C., Senior Associate, Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice Group, June 2007 - 2010
  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Washington, D.C., Associate, Litigation Practice Group, September 2003 - June 2007
  • American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., Adjunct Professor, Fall 2005 - Fall 2007
  • University of Virignia, Instructor, Fall 1997 - Spring 2000

 

Publications:

 

Paper Presentations:

  • "The Legitimation of Law beyond God and Kant: A Neopragmatist Defense of the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy," Association for the Study of Law, Culture & The Humanities 15th Annual Conference, March 16-17, 2012.
  • "Greed, Envy, and the Criminalization if Insider Trading: Is It Moral or Moralistic?" The 18th Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, St John's University, New York, New York, October 26-28, 2011.
  • "On the Irrelevance of Truth to Justice: John Rawls's Pragmatism," Association for the Study of Law, Culture & The Humanities 14th Annual Conference, March 11 & 12, 2011.
  • "Patriotic Liberalism," at American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Berkeley, Ca., April 1999.
  • "Sophie's Choice" at University of Richmond, Guest Lecture, April 1998.
  • "Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Light of Political Liberalism" at Harvard/MIT Graduate Conference in Philosophy, March 1998.
  • "The Paradox of Agent-Centered Restrictions" at Virginia Philosophical Association, James Madison University, November 1996.

 

Panels and Lecutres

  • Discussant, "Human Rights as Articles of Faith," Association for the Study of Law, Culture & The Humanities 14th Annual Conference, March 11 & 12, 2011.