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Robin L. West (born 1954) is a legal academic who is best known for her scholarship on constitutional law and theory, jurisprudence, law and humanities, and feminist legal theory. West’s legal writing is critical of dominant legal approaches, including legal liberalism and critical legal theory. She understands justice as the ideal toward which law should be aimed. West argues that attending to the lived experiences of human beings through the phenomenological method is necessary for evaluating whether laws are morally good or bad.
West earned a J.D. from the University of Maryland Law School in 1979 and a J.S.M. from Stanford Law School in 1982. West is the Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she has taught since 1986. She has also taught at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, the University of Maryland Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, and Stanford Law School. In 2009, West received the J. B....
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Schweitzer, K. (2017). West, Robin. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_125-1
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