Corey Brettschneider
Associate Professor of Political Science:
Political Science
Phone: +1 401 863 2180
Corey_Brettschneider@Brown.EDU
Corey Brettschneider has research interests in political theory and public law, with an emphasis in democratic, constitutional and liberal theory. His recent book and articles examine the relationship between democracy and individual rights. His current book project focuses on the public/private distinction.
Biography
COREY BRETTSCHNEIDER is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he teaches courses in political theory and public law. He is also Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Philosophy and Public Policy. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard Law School for the Winter Term 2009. Brettschneider received a PhD in Politics from Princeton University and a JD from Stanford University. His articles, part of a book project entitled, Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government, (Princeton University Press, 2007), include "Balancing Procedures and Outcomes Within Democratic Theory: Core Values and Judicial Review," in Political Studies (2005), "The Value Theory of Democracy," in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2006), and "The Rights of the Guilty," in Political Theory (2007). Other publications include articles on punishment and the role of rights in Marxian thought. Brettschneider is the recipient of the Cornell University Young Scholar Award, a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and a Safra Foundation Fellowship in Ethics from Harvard University. He is currently completing a book, Deep Democracy: Public Values in Private Life, which proposes a new understanding of the public/private distinction. The first article of this current project is "The Politics of the Personal: A Liberal Approach," in the American Political Science Review (2007). In addition, Aspen Press will publish Brettschneider's three volume case book on constitutional law in 2010.
Link to Publications
Interests
Book Project:
Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government (Princeton University Press, 2007)
Democratic Rights on Amazon
A good deal of work in contemporary political theory attempts to give an account of the substantive demands of justice. Distinct from this project is a body of literature dedicated to elaborating on the meaning of democracy in procedural terms. In this book I offer an alternative to the traditional divide between procedural theories of democracy and substantive theories of justice. I argue that democracy itself is fundamentally about a core set of values – political autonomy, equality of interests, and reciprocity – with both procedural and substantive implications. I contend that what are often thought of as distinctly liberal substantive rights to privacy, property, and welfare can be newly understood within a theory of democracy.
Degrees
Ph.D. J.D.
Awards
Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Faculty Fellowship, Harvard University, 2006-2007
Cogut Center for the Humanities Inaugural Fellowship, Brown University, spring 2006
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2004-2005
Finalist, Barrett Hazeltine Award for Excellence in Teaching, Brown University, spring 2004
The Cornell University Young Scholar Award, Center for Ethics and Public Life, Cornell University, 2003-2004
Nomination, Leo Strauss Award in Political Theory, fall 2002
University Fellowship, Princeton University, 2001-2002
Graduate Prize Fellowship, University Center For Human Values, Princeton University, 2000-2001
University Fellowship, Princeton University, 1999-2000
Downing College Fellowship, Downing College, Cambridge University, 1995-1996
Beckner Prize for Excellence in Philosophy, Pomona College, may 1995
Phi Beta Kappa, Pomona College, may 1995
Affiliations
American Political Science Association
Foundations of Political Theory
Funded Research
I have received research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Brown University Humanities Center, and the Harvard University Center for Ethics.
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Curriculum Vitae
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