J. Colin Bradley

I’m a legal scholar and philosopher, currently a Furman Fellow at NYU Law. Starting July 2026, I will be Assistant Professor of Law at USC Gould School of Law. My research focuses on constitutional law and theory, private law, jurisprudence, and political philosophy. I am interested in the relationship between law and social equality. Here is my cv.

My writing is published or forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Political Philosophy, and NYU Law Review, among other places.

Take a look at some of my published writing here. Or visit my SSRN or PhilPeople page.

I have a JD from NYU Law where I was a Furman Academic Scholar from 2018-2021, and received the Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize, the John Bruce Moore Prize for Law and Philosophy, the Leonard Henkin Prize for Scholarship on Equal Rights, the Weinfeld Prize for Scholarship in Procedure and Courts, and the Aleta Estreicher Prize for Law Teaching. For the 2024-25 term, I was a law clerk to the Honorable Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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.