Purdy clerked for the Judge Pierre N. Leval of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City and has been a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, an ethics fellow at Harvard University, and a visiting professor at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School.
Professor, Duke University School of Law
J.D., Yale Law School, 2001
B.A., Harvard University, 1997
Jedediah Purdy is a visiting professor and expert in environmental, property and constitutional law.
Purdy is on the faculty of Duke University School of Law. He graduated from Harvard University, summa cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree in social studies, and received his law degree from Yale Law School.
His latest books are A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom (Knopf, 2009) and The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination (Yale University Press, 2010).
