MICHAEL CORRADO Arch T. Allen Professor of Law

Michael Corrado has a joint appointment in the philosophy department.  Specializing in philosophy of law, the theory of responsibility, and action theory, he is Editor-in-Chief of Law and Philosophy, and edited Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law. He is currently working on a book, Reason and Impulse: Rethinking Criminal Responsibility. Sample publications: "Proper Names and Necessary Properties," Philosophical Studies (1973); "On Believing Inscriptions to Be True," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1975); "What De Re Belief Is Not," Analysis (1975); "States of Affairs," Philosophia (1977); "The Power to Act," Philosophical Studies (1980); "Trying," American Philosophical Quarterly (1983); "Automatism and the Theory of Action," Emory Law Journal (1990); "How to Do Things on Purpose," Law and Philosophy (1992); "Punishment and the Wild Beast of Prey:  The Problem of Preventive Detention," Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1996); "Economics, Equality, and Responsibility,” Notre Dame Law Review (1999); “Addiction and Causation,” San Diego Law Review (forthcoming); “Egalitarianism and the Common Law,” Philosophical Issues (forthcoming). [Complete CV]

phone: (919) 962-4121
email: mlcorrad@email.unc.edu