Peter de Marneffe

Peter de Marneffe, a professor of philosophy, is the author of "Liberalism and Prostitution" (Oxford University Press, 2010) and "The Legalization of Drugs" with Doug Husak (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His areas of scholarly expertise are political philosophy and the philosophy of law.  He has published essays on liberalism, individual rights, government paternalism, and drug, prostitution, and polygamy laws. He received his doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University in 1989--the year he joined the ASU faculty--and wrote his dissertation, "Liberalism and Education," under the direction of John Rawls and Thomas Scanlon. He has been a visiting fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University.