Kevin Tobia is a Professor of Law and Philosophy (by courtesy) at Georgetown, where he has taught Legislation, Torts, Foundations of American Legal Thought, and Legal Philosophy. He has also taught Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy, and co-taught Legal Interpretation and Contract Design.

Professor Tobia’s research addresses topics in legal interpretation and jurisprudence and has been published in the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and peer-reviewed journals of philosophy and science, including Analysis, Cognition, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His research has been cited in federal district and circuit courts and casebooks in legislation and interpretation. He has spoken to academic, public, and professional audiences in the United States and internationally, including Judicial Conferences and Education Institutes for the U.S. Court of Appeals.

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. in philosophy with distinction from Yale. He 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.