Matthew Kramer

Matthew Henry Kramer (born 9 June 1959) is an American philosopher and a Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, as well as a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. His primary areas of research and writing include metaethics, normative ethics, legal philosophy, and political philosophy. Kramer is recognized as a leading proponent of legal positivism and has also contributed significantly to discussions on moral realism. He has been the Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy since 2000 and has been teaching at Cambridge University and Churchill College since 1994. Kramer's academic journey includes a B.A. in Philosophy from Cornell University, a J.D. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy and an LL.D. from Cambridge University. His extensive body of work includes over twenty books and numerous journal articles. He has been honored with prestigious awards such as a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. Kramer also plays an active role in academic discourse, serving as a subject editor for the Routledge *Encyclopedia of Philosophy* and on the editorial boards of several respected journals. He lectures and supervises at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Cambridge. His visiting professorships include stints at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.