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Jeremy Waldron

Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University Law School, is the author of Law and Disagreement and God, Locke and Equality.

From the London Review dated 10 April 2008

Reality Check

‘If there’s a one per cent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaida build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response . . . It’s not about our analysis, or finding a preponderance of evidence. It’s about our response.’ The One Per Cent Doctrine: it’s a striking methodology and a liberating one, and many people think it’s the only way to respond to the threat of low-probability, high-impact events. With it, the endless evidence-gathering and analysis that characterises traditional intelligence policy gives way to clarity. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke’s Political Thought (2002)
  • Law and Disagreement (1999)
  • The Dignity of Legislation (1999)
  • Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981-1991 (1993)
  • The Right to Private Property (1990)
  • Theories of Rights (editor) (1985)

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In the LRB archive

Reality Check · 10 April 2008

Boutique Faith · 20 July 2006

  • Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition by John Durham Peters

subscriber-only content Deservingness · 19 September 2002

  • Against Equality of Opportunity by Matt Cavanagh

11 September · 4 October 2001

subscriber-only content What about Bert? · 9 August 2001

  • Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by Ronald Dworkin

The Plight of the Poor in the Midst of Plenty · 15 July 1999

  • Collected Papers by John Rawls, edited by Samuel Freeman

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive A Mistrust of Thunder and Lightning · 20 January 2000

  • Reason and Rhetoric in the Philsophy of Hobbes by Quentin Skinner

 not available in archive Whose Nuremberg Laws? · 19 March 1998

  • Seeing a Colour-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race by Patricia Williams
  • Colour Conscious: The Political Morality of Race by Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann
  • Race: The History of an Idea in the West by Ivan Hannaford

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