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John Mikhail
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Contact Information
Associate Professor Georgetown University Law Center and Philosophy Department (by courtesy) 600 New Jersey Ave., NW Washington, DC 20001 202-662-9392 (phone) 202-662-9412 (fax) mikhail-at-law.georgetown.edu
Profiles / Overviews John Mikhail, A Community of Scholars (David Luban) Intellectual Pioneer, Georgetown Law Magazine (Editors) Professor John Mikhail Joins Law Center Faculty, Georgetown Law Weekly (Victoria Taylor) Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, and Evolution (Noam Chomsky) Do the Right Thing: Cognitive Science's Search for a Common Morality, Boston Review (Rebecca Saxe) Intention, Legal Theory Lexicon (Lawrence Solum) Die Grammatik des Guten, Der Spiegel (Jörg Blech and Rafaela von Bredow) The Moral Instinct, New York Times Magazine (Steven Pinker) The Emerging Moral Psychology, Prospect Magazine (Dan Jones) The Roots of Morality, Science (Greg Miller)
Publications Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment (Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming) "Moral Grammar and Human Rights," in Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights (Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, and Andrew Woods, eds., Oxford University Press) (forthcoming) "The Sense of Justice" (reviewing Markus Dirk Dubber, The Sense of Justice: Empathy in Law and Punishment), Social Justice Research (forthcoming) "Dilemmas of Cultural Legality: A Comment on Roger Cotterrell's The Struggle for Law and a Criticism of the House of Lords' Opinions in Begum," International Journal of Law in Context, Vol. 4 (forthcoming) "Universal Moral Grammar: Clarifications, Objections, and Replies," Neuroethics (forthcoming) "Unconscious Choices in Legal Analysis" (Comment on Mark Kelman, Interpretive Construction in the Substantive Criminal Law), in P. H. Robinson, S. Garvey, and K Ferzan, eds., Criminal Law Conversations. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2009).
"Constraining the Necessity Defense" (Comment on Paul Robinson, Objective versus Subjective Justification), in P. H. Robinson, S. Garvey, and K Ferzan, eds., Criminal Law Conversations. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2009).
"Self-Defense Against Wrongful Attack: The Case of the Psychotic Aggressor" (Comment on George Fletcher and Luis Chiesa, Self-Defense and the Case of the Psychotic Aggressor), in P. H. Robinson, S. Garvey, and K Ferzan, eds., Criminal Law Conversations. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2009). ''Islamic Rationalism and the Foundation of Human Rights,'' in Pluralism and the Law: Proceedings of the 20th IVR World Congress, Volume 3: Global Problems (Arend Soeteman, ed., Franz Steiner Verlag) (2004), pp. 61-70
Unpublished Papers Unreasonable Risk: A Formal Analysis and Critical History of Common Law Negligence (2009) Aspects of the Theory of Moral Cognition: Investigating Intuitive Knowledge of the Prohibition of Intentional Battery, the Rescue Principle, the First Principle of Practical Reason, and the Principle of Double Effect (Stanford Law School Thesis, May 2002) Advisors: Tom Grey, Mark Kelman Outline of a Research Program in Moral Psychology (1997) The Moral Faculty (1996) Rawls' Linguistic Analogy (1995)
PhD Dissertation Advisors: Noam Chomsky, Richard Miller, Jason Stanley, Allen Wood (chair)
Talks / Lectures Yale Law School, Yale Legal Theory Workshop, April 2009 University of Maryland, Cognitive Science Colloquium, March 2009 Georgetown University Law Center, Faculty Workshop, January 2009 UCLA, Department of Anthropology, Behavior, Evolution, and Culture Lecture Series, November 2008 Harvard Law School, International Law Workshop, April 2008 George Washington University, Department of Philosophy, April 2008 Georgetown University Law Center, International Law in Context Panel, January 2008 Dickinson College, Department of Philosophy, October 2007 Yale University, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, September 2007 Georgetown University, Department of Philosophy, September 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology and Culture Forum, September 2007 Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, April 2007 University of Virginia School of Law, Faculty Workshop, April 2007 University of Illinois College of Law, Program in Law and Philosophy, March 2007 Georgetown University Law Center, Faculty Workshop, February 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, January 2007 Georgetown University Law Center, Board of Visitors, October 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, April 2006 Stanford Law School, Legal Studies Workshop, February 2006 Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, January 2006 Princeton University, Center for Human Values, December 2005 Georgetown University Law Center, Summer Brown Bag Workshop, July, 2005 University of Maryland, Maryland Neuroscience Society, May 2005 University of Berlin, Faculty of Law and Department of International Affairs, January 2005 Stanford Law School, February 2004 Northwestern University School of Law, January 2004 Cornell Law School, January 2004 Vanderbilt University Law School, January 2004 U.C.L.A. School of Law, January 2004 Georgetown University Law Center, January 2004 University of Illinois College of Law, December 2003 Harvard Law School, December 2003 University of San Diego School of Law, November 2003 Harvard University, Department of Psychology, November 2002 Stanford University, Department of Psychology, December 2001 University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy, July 2001 Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001 University of Toledo, Department of Philosophy, March 2001 Stanford University, Department of Psychology, December 2000 Hampshire College, School of Cognitive Science, October 2000 University of Berlin, Faculty of Law, July 2000 Stanford University, Department of Psychology, February 2000 University of New Mexico, Department of Philosophy, April 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, December 1998 Cornell University, Department of Philosophy, December 1997 Harvard University, Workshop in Moral and Political Philosophy, May 1996 Harvard University, Workshop in Moral and Political Philosophy, December 1995
Conferences / Workshops Conference on Rethinking the Genealogy of Morals, University of Chicago Law School, October 2009 (scheduled) MURI Workshop on Computational Models for Decision-Making, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2009 10th Annual SEAL Scholarship Conference, Vanderbilt Law School, April 2009 AFOSR Conference on Neuroeconomics and Political Conflict, Washington, DC, December 2008 Conference on Origins of Human Behavior, California Institute of Technology, November 2008 Symposium on Moral Universals, Brooklyn Law School, September 2008 Workshop on Experimental Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, June 2008 Workshop on Understanding Social Action and Promoting Human Rights, Harvard Law School, June 2008 New Voices in Legal Theory Roundtable, Cardozo School of Law, May 2008 Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, IL April 2008 Arts & Humanities Research Council, Culture and the Mind Project, Sheffield, UK March 2008 ONR Workshop on Social Cognition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 2008 Annual Meeting, American Association of Law Schools, New York, NY, January 2008 23rd World Congress, International Association for Philosophy of Law, Krakow, Poland, August 2007 33rd Annual Conference, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Toronto, Canada, June 2007 Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington, DC December 2006 Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Harvard Business School, June 2006 22nd World Congress, International Association for Philosophy of Law, Grenada, Spain, May 2005 21st World Congress, International Association for Philosophy of Law, Lund, Sweden, August 2003 20th World Congress, International Association for Philosophy of Law, Amsterdam, June 2001 Biennial Meeting, Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April 2001 Biennial Meeting, Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, April 1999 20th Annual Conference, Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI, August 1998 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, January 1998 5th Annual Cognitive Studies Research Forum, Cornell University, October 1996 4th Annual Harvard/MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference, Harvard University, April 1996
Webcasts / Other Media Georgetown University Forum: Cognitive Science and Human Rights (Audio, NPR) UCLA Behavior, Evolution, and Culture Series (Video) Brooklyn Law School Symposium on Moral Universals (Video, Panel Discussion w/ Paul Bloom and Ray Jackendoff) Where Morals Come From--And Why It Matters, MIT Technology and Culture Forum (Video, MIT World) Scientists Draw Link Between Morality and Brain's Wiring, Wall St. Journal (Robert Lee Hotz) Mit Anstand auf die Welt, Der Spiegel (Jörg Blech) A Case for the Moral Organ? Science (Michael R. Waldmann) The Chomsky of Morality? Nature (Paul Bloom and Izzat Jarudi) Social Intuitionism, or the Rise of the Intuitive Lawyers, Mixing Memory (Chris S.) Against Intuition, Chronicle of Higher Education (Christopher Shea)
Professional Associations State Bar of California American Bar Association American Philosophical Association American Psychological Association Association for Psychological Science Cogntive Science Society Society for Research in Child Development Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy Alumni Advisory Board, M.I.T. Program on Human Rights and Justice
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