Dr Ori Herstein
Email: ori.herstein@kcl.ac.uk
Telephone: (44) 207 848 1739
Room: SW3.12
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Biography
Dr Ori Herstein joined King’s as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in August 2012. Prior to this, he spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University Law School, where he taught Tort Law, Tort Theory, and Jurisprudence. Dr Herstein obtained his Doctoral and Master’s degrees from Columbia University Law School and his LL.B. and undergraduate philosophy degree from Tel Aviv University. While at Columbia, he wrote his doctoral dissertation under Professor Joseph Raz and held the position of Associate-in-Law teaching legal reasoning and writing.
Upon obtaining his doctorate and prior to his time at Cornell, Ori spent two years in private practice as a litigation associate at the NYC office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. He also clerked on the Tel Aviv Circuit Court. He is admitted to the New York Bar and the Israel Bar.
Dr Herstein teaches Tort Law and Jurisprudence and co-directs the King’s Legal Philosophy Workshop.
Research
Dr Herstein’s primary research interests include legal philosophy and private law theory. He has been published on topics including historic and intergenerational justice, rights, responsibility, feminism, equity, and tort.
Publications
O. Herstein, “Legal Right To Do Legal Wrong,” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (forthcoming, 2014).
O. Herstein, “Why Nonexistent People Do Not Have Zero Well-Being but Rather No Well-Being,” Journal of Applied Philosophy (forthcoming, 2013).
O. Herstein “Defending the Right to Do Wrong,” 31 Law and Philosophy, 343-365 (2012).
O. Herstein, “A Normative Theory of the Clean Hands Defense,” 17 (3) Legal Theory, 171-208 (2011).
O. Herstein, “Responsibility in Negligence: Why the Duty of Care is Not a Duty to Try,” 23 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 403 (2010).
O. Herstein, “Justifying Subversion,” 19 Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy, 43 (2010).
O. Herstein, “The Identity and (Legal) Rights of Future Generations,” 77 George Washington Law Review, 1173(2009).
O. Herstein, “Historic Injustice, Group Membership and Harm to Individuals: Defending Claims for Historic Justice from the Non-Identity Problem,” 25 Harvard Law School Journal on Racial & Ethical Justice (formerly Harvard Blackletter Law Journal) 229 (2009).
O. Herstein, “Historic Injustice and the Non-Identity Problem: The Limitations of the Subsequent-Wrong Solution and Towards a New Solution,” 27 Law and Philosophy, 505 (2008).
Teaching
Law of Tort
Jurisprudence
Law and Social Theory