J. Colin Bradley

I’m a philosopher and legal scholar. I write about constitutional law and the legal institutions that shape democratic practice. My research covers constitutional law, labor law, election law, moral and political philosophy, general jurisprudence, and private law theory.

My writing has been published in the Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, and NYU Law Review, among other places. Take a look at some of my published writing here.

Currently I am a law clerk to Judge Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. For the 2023-24 and 2025-26 years I am a Furman Fellow at NYU Law.

I have a JD from NYU Law where I was a Furman Academic Scholar from 2018-2021, and received the Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize for the most likely to become a legal thought leader, the John Bruce Moore Prize for Law and Philosophy, the Leonard Henkin Prize for Scholarship on Equal Rights, and the Weinfeld Prize for Scholarship in Procedure and Courts.

I received my PhD from the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University in 2024. My dissertation, “Claiming Independence: Essays on Law, Morality, and Equality,” was supervised by Philip Pettit. In a phrase, it argued that equality requires law.

Check out my cv here.