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Publications | Presentations | Professional Memberships
Prior to attending law school, Justin Schwartz taught Philosophy at Kalamazoo College and Ohio State University. While pursuing his JD degree, he was articles editor for the Ohio State Law Journal and received numerous honors. After graduating third in his class, Professor Schwartz was a law clerk for the late Hon. Walter J. Cummings and Hon. Ilana Diamond Rovner, both with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From 1999 through 2002, he was a law clerk for Hon. Elaine E. Bucklo with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Professor Schwartz has been a litigation associate with the Chicago firms Jones Day and Kirkland & Ellis. He has lectured extensively and published widely, and his article in Legal Studies, "Relativism, Reflective Equilibrium, and Justice," received the 1999 Berger Prize in Philosophy of Law from the American Philosophical Association. He is currently writing on class action attorney fees and several topics in legal theory.
Professor Schwartz came to John Marshall as a visiting professor in 2006 and joined the full-time faculty in 2007. He teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, Federal Courts, White Collar Crime, and Employment Discrimination.
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Publications: Articles and Chapters
Rights of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Status of the Family, 7 Legal Theory 83-117 (2001).
Legal Strategies to Achieve Tax Subsidy Accountability (with Kary Moss & Meena Upadhyay), in Public Subsidies, Public Accountability: Holding Corporations to Labor & Community Standards 58-76 (2d ed. Grassroots Policy Project 1998).
Relativism, Reflective Equilibrium, and Justice, 17 Legal Stud. 128-168 (1997).
Awarded the 1999 Berger Prize in Philosophy of Law of the American Philosophical Association (best published paper of the previous two years).
A Not Quite Color-Blind Constitution: Racial Discrimination and Racial Preference in Justice O'Connor's "Newest" Equal Protection Jurisprudence, Comment, 58 Ohio State Law J. 58, 1055-1107 (1997).
In Defense of Exploitation, 11 Econ. & Phil. 49-81 (1995) .
What's Wrong With Exploitation?, 29 Nous 158-188 (1995).
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Presentations and Seminars
Invited Participant, University of Ottowa Law School Conference on Disability Discrimination: To be presented, Disabling State Sovereignty
Invited Participant, Aspen Institute, Justice and Society, July 2008
Retribution Revisited, The John Marshall Law School Work In Progress Talk, April 2008
The State As A RICO Enterprise: Questions About The Conviction of Gov. George Ryan, The John Marshall Law School New Cases Seminar, March 2007
Auctions And Attorneys' Fees In Common Fund Class Actions, The John Marshall Law School, Nov. 2006
Retribution And Alienation: Marx, Murphy, and Sher on Retributive Punishment, American Philosophical Association ("APA") Central Division, Chicago, April 2005.
Pragmatism and the Legacy of Sidney Hook's Towards The Understanding Of Karl Marx, APA Eastern Division, Philadelphia, December 2002 (invited).
After Marxism, Loyola University of Chicago, June 2002 (invited).
Democratic Legitimacy and the Antinomies of Legal Positivism, Chicago Political Theory Group, 2001, Chicago Federal Law Clerk's Seminar, 2000.
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Professional Memberships
Member, Illinois Bar (1989-present)
Member, Bar of United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1999-present)
Member, Bar of United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1999-present)
Member, Bar of United States Supreme Court (2004-present)
American Bar Association (1995-present)
American Civil Liberties Union (1988-present) (Cooperating Attorney 2002-present)
American Philosophical Association (1988-present)
American Cancer Society, Associate Board Member (2006-07 )
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