Jedediah Purdy

Jedediah Spenser Purdy (born 29 November 1974 in Chloe, West Virginia) is an American legal scholar and cultural commentator. In 2022 he became the Raphael Lemkin Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, where he teaches courses on Property and Past and Future of Capitalist Democracy. From 2018 to 2022 he was William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, teaching courses on American Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law and Democracy and its Crisis. He previously taught at Duke University School of Law from 2004 to 2018.

Purdy is the author of two widely discussed books: ''For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today'' (1999) and ''Being America: Liberty, Commerce and Violence in an American World'' (2003). He is also the author of ''Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening ― and Our Best Hope'' (2022), ''This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth'' (2019), ''After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene'' (2015), ''The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community and the Legal Imagination '' (2010), and ''A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom'' (2009). Provided by Wikipedia