Mark R. Reiff

Mark R. Reiff is the author of six books: Analytical Fascism: What Stares Back When One Stares into the De-Enlightenment (George Washington University, Illiberalism Studies, 2024); In the Name of Liberty: The Argument for Universal Unionization (Cambridge University Press, 2020); On Unemployment, Volume I: A Micro-Theory of Economic Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); On Unemployment, Volume II: Achieving Economic Justice after the Great Recession (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Exploitation and Economic Justice in the Liberal Capitalist State (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Punishment, Compensation, and Law: A Theory of Enforceability (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His papers on issues within legal, political, and moral philosophy have appeared in leading academic journals in the US, the UK, France, and Canada, and his work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. Dr. Reiff has taught legal and political philosophy at the University of Manchester, the University of Durham, and most recently at the University of California at Davis, and in 2008-09 was a Faculty Fellow at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Dr. Reiff is also a lawyer, and prior to returning to academia to obtain his PhD at the University of Cambridge, he practiced civil trial and appellate litigation in California for many years. He is also admitted to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales.