Professor Tobia’s scholarship is in legal theory, empirical legal studies, legislation, health law, and LGBTQ law. At Georgetown, he teaches Torts, the Legal Justice Seminar, and Legal Interpretation. Tobia has also taught Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford, and his book, Experimental Jurisprudence, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

Tobia received a B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Philosophy, Mathematics, and Cognitive Science from Rutgers University; a B.Phil. (M.A.) with distinction from Oxford as an Ertegun Scholar in the Humanities; and a J.D. and Ph.D. with distinction from Yale. Tobia was an Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal, Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Coker Teaching Fellow in Torts, and Prize Teaching Fellow in Philosophy. Professor Tobia’s scholarship has been awarded the Yale Law School Felix S. Cohen prize for legal philosophy and the AALS Section on Jurisprudence “Future Promise Award” for scholarship in legal philosophy.

Scholarship

Featured Scholarship

Kevin P. Tobia, The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence (Cambridge University Press forthcoming).
Kevin P. Tobia, Brian Slocum & Victoria Nourse, Ordinary Meaning and Ordinary People, U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming).
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Kevin Tobia, Experimental Jurisprudence, 89 U. Chi. L. Rev. 735-802 (2022).
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Kevin Tobia, Brian G. Slocum & Victoria Nourse, Statutory Interpretation from the Outside, 122 Colum. L. Rev. 213-329 (2022).
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Kevin P. Tobia, Brian Slocum & Victoria Nourse, Progressive Textualism, 110 Geo. L.J. 1437-1493 (2022).
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Kevin P. Tobia, Empirical Methods and Legal Interpretation, 19 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. (forthcoming).
Kevin Tobia, The Corpus and the Courts, U. Chi. L. Rev. Online, Mar. 5, 2021.
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Kevin P. Tobia, Testing Ordinary Meaning, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 726-806 (2020).
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