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Research Affiliate in Legal and Political Philosophy, University of California, Davis

Mark R. Reiff is the author of five books: In the Name of Liberty: The Argument for Universal Unionization (Cambridge 2020); On Unemployment, Volumes I and II (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Exploitation and Economic Justice in the Liberal Capitalist State (Oxford, 2013), and Punishment, Compensation, and Law: A Theory of Enforceability (Cambridge, 2005). His papers on issues within political, legal, and moral philosophy have appeared in leading academic journals in the US, the UK, France, and Canada, and his work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese. Dr. Reiff has taught at the University of Manchester, the University of Durham, the University of California at Davis, the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, and in 2008-09 was a Faculty Fellow at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. His current book project, about the rise of Trumpism, populism, and the alt-right, is called The Unbearable Resilience of Illiberalism.

Experience

  • –present
    Research Affiliate in Legal and Political Philosophy, University of California, Davis

Education

  • 2003 
    University of Cambridge , PhD, Legal and Poiltical Philosophy