Professor John F. K. Oberdiek

John Oberdiek is Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy. Additionally, Prof. Oberdiek is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Law and Philosophy as well as Series Co-Editor of Oxford Private Law Theory. He writes and teaches in torts and tort theory, private law theory generally, as well as legal, political, and moral philosophy. He is the author of many articles and chapters as well as Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework(Oxford 2017), and he is the editor of a number of collections in private law theory.

Prof. Oberdiek has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton as well as a visiting professor at the University of Graz, Austria, and he is the 2023 recipient of the Fred Berger Memorial Prize in Philosophy of Law, awarded by the American Philosophical Association. 

Prof. Oberdiek received his BA in philosophy from Middlebury College, his MA in philosophy from New York University, and his JD and PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. Before entering academia, he was an associate at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C.