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Alan J. Ryan

Warden and Tutor in Political Philosophy,
New College, University of Oxford
D.Litt., Oxford University, 1993
M.A., Oxford University, 1967
B.A., Oxford University, 1962

Alan Ryan, the head of New College at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, returns to the Law School in March 2005 to teach a short course called Rights, Bills of Rights, and Constitutions From Two Sides of the Atlantic, comparing the British and American traditions of rights in legal theory and practice. Ryan was Professor of Politics at Princeton University from 1988-96, and was a Fellow and Tutor in politics at New College from 1969-88. His main interests are political philosophy, the philosophy of the social sciences, and the history of ideas. Ryan has written and edited several books on John Stuart Mill, theories of property, and the philosophy of the social sciences. His most recent books are John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism (1995) and Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education (1998). Ryan has also taught at the University of Keele and the University of Essex, and served as a visiting professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the University of Cape Town, both in the Republic of South Africa; the Australian National University; and the University of Texas at Austin.

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