Prof Brian H Bix

Contact Me

bixxx002@umn.edu
612-624-2505

Law School
N212 Mondale Hall

229 19th Ave S

Affiliations

• Philosophy

Educational Background & Specialties

Specialties

• economic analysis of law
• family law
• feminism
• jurisprudence
• legal philosophy
• legal positivism
• moral philosophy
• natural law theory
• Nietzsche
• philosophy of language
• political philosophy
• questions of methodology
• Wittgenstein

Courses Taught

• Phil 3302W - Moral Problems of Contemporary Society
• Phil 4760 - Selected Topics
• Phil 5415 - Philosophy of Law

Publications

• Natural Law Theory: The Modern Tradition: Bix, Brian, Oxford University Press, Handbook of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy, 2000.
• Conceptual Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies: Bix, Brian, Rutgers Law Journal, 74 , 2000.
• On the Dividing Line Between Natural Law Theory and Legal Positivism: Bix, Brian, Notre Dame Law Review, 75 , 2000.
• Jurisprudence: Theory and Context. Bix, Brian, Carolina Academic Press, 2nd edition, 2000.
• Law, Language and Legal Determinacy. Bix, Brian, Oxford University Press, 1993.
• A Dictionary of Legal Theory. Bix, Brian, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2004.
• John Austin: Bix, Brian, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2001.
• Raz on Necessity. Bix, Brian, 2003.
• Some Reflections on Methodology in Jurisprudence (translated into Italian): Bix, Brian, Ars Interpretandi, 8 297-427, 2004.
• Legal Positivism. Bix, Brian, forthcoming 2004.
• Natural Law Theory: The Modern Tradition. Bix, Brian, 2002.
• Law as an Autonomous Discipline. Bix, Brian, 2003.
• Can Theories of Meaning and Reference Solve the Problem of Legal Determinacy?: Bix, Brian, Ratio Juris, 16 281-295, 2003.