Dr. Berkowitz's CV

PUBLICATIONS

Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 1999)

Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Harvard University Press, 1995)

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PETER BERKOWITZ

3133 Connecticut Ave., NW
Apt. 823
Washington, DC 20008
202 986-0596
berkowit@aol.com George Mason University Law School
3401 N. Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
703 993-8247
berkowit@gmu.edu

EMPLOYMENT

1999- Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University Law School

1994- Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University

1990-1994 Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University

EDUCATION

J.D. Yale Law School, May 1990

Ph.D. Yale University, Political Science, with Distinction, December 1987

M.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Philosophy, with Distinction, June 1985

B.A. Swarthmore College, English Literature, with HighHonors, June 1981

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 1999)

Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Harvard University Press, 1995)

Articles, Essays and Reviews

"The Priority of Justice to Democracy," a review of Democratic Justice, by Ian

Shapiro, in THE NEW REPUBLIC (forthcoming)

"The Principle Problem," a review of The Trouble with Principle, by

Stanley Fish, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 20, 2000

"On the Separation of Religion and State in Israel," a short commentary, in Politics in the

Jewish Tradition, ed. Michael Walzer (Yale University Press, 2000)

Liberalism's Discontents," a review of The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the

Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal

Politics of Coercion and Control, ed. Hilton Kramer and Roger

Kimball, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Feb. 21, 2000, pp. 33-35

"Other People's Mothers," a review of A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution,

and Cooperation, by Peter Singer, and Practical Ethics, 2nd ed,

by Peter Singer, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, January 10, 1999, pp. 27-37

"Response and Restatement," in Symposium: Virtue and the Making of

Modern Liberalism,YALE JOURNAL OF ETHICS,

December 1999, pp. 5-15

""Feminism vs. Multiculturalism? The Liberal Project at Odds with Itself," a review

of Is Multiculturalism bad for Women?, by SusanMoller Okin and

respondents, ed. Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, and Martha C. Nussbaum,

in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Novermber 1. 1999, pp. 40-43

"Reduction and Betrayal," a review of The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory,

by Richard A. Posner, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, August 23, 1999, pp. 38-45

"A Measure of Compassion," in THE NEW REPUBLIC, August, 16, 1999, pp. 26-27

"The Pearl Diver," a review of The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the

Social, by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, June14, 1999

"The Good Fight," in THE NEW REPUBLIC, May 10, 1999, pp. 20-21

"Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places," a review of Monica's Story, by Andrew

Morton, in THE JERUSALEM REPORT, April 26, 1999. pp. 48-49

"Beyond Victimhood," a review of A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black

Freedom in America, by Shelby Steele, in COMMENTARY,

February 1999, pp. 66-67

"Mill: Virtue, Liberty, and the Discipline of Individuality," in Mill and the Moral

Character of Liberalism, ed. Eldon J. Eisenach (Penn State University

Press, 1998), pp. 13-47

"Toward a More Complex Liberalism," a review of The Virtues of Liberalism, by

James Kloppenberg, in THE BOSTON BOOK REVIEW, October 1998, p. 25

"Fear and Thinking," a review of Political Thought and Political Thinkers, by

Judith N. Shklar, ed. Stanley Hoffmann, and Redeeming Political Thought,

by Judith N. Shklar, ed. Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson, in

THE NEW REPUBLIC, July 13, 1998, pp. 34-39

"Can Liberalism be Saved" a review of Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth

Century America, by Richard Rorty, in COMMENTARY, June 1998, pp. 75-78

"The Reason of Revelation," a review of Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity,

by Leo Strauss, ed. Kenneth Hart Green, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD,

May 25, 1998, pp. 31-34

Review of The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Kathleen Higgins and Bernd

Magnus, in THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, Spring 1998

Review of Free Markets and Social Justice, by Cass R. Sunstein, in the AMERICAN

POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, March 1998, pp. 213-214

"Liberalism Strikes Back," a review of The Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a

History of Subjectivity, by Alain Renaut, trans. M.B. DeBevoise and Franklin Philip,

in THE NEW REPUBLIC, December 15, 1997, pp. 32-37

"Between Principles: Liberal Democracy and the Communitarian Challenge," in

Democracy: The Challenges Ahead, ed. Yossi Shain and Aharon Klieman

(London: MacMillan, 1997), pp. 19-29

"Saving Liberalism's Soul," a review of The Growth of the Liberal Soul, by David Walsh,

in FIRST THINGS, November 1997, pp. 47-52

"The Politic Moralist," a review of Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau,

and the Ethics of Politics, by Ruth W. Grant, in THE NEW REPUBLIC,

September 1, 1997, pp. 36-40

"Thou Shalt not Kill," a review of The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism,

by Regina M. Schwartz, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 23, 1997, pp. 41-45

"Beyond Pangloss," a review of Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as Charity of the

Wise, by Patrick Riley, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, April 7, 1997, pp. 38-41

"The Modern Styles of Politics," a review of The Politics of Faith & the Politics

of Scepticism, by Michael Oakeshott, in FIRST THINGS, April 1997, pp. 38-42

Review of Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity, by Steven B. Smith, in

THE WILSON QUARTERLY, Spring 1997, p. 103

"The Debating Society," a review of Democracy and Disagreement, by Amy Gutmann

and Dennis Thompson, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, November 25, 1996, pp. 36-42

"Liberalism's Virtue," in PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE, Fall 1996,

pp. 183-191

"The Arrogance of Compassion," a review of The Politics of Meaning, by Michael Lerner,

in THE JERUSALEM REPORT, September 19, 1996, pp. 59-61

"Science Fiction: Postmodernism Exposed," in THE NEW REPUBLIC, July 1, 1996,

pp. 15-16

"The Art of Association," a review of The Fragility of Freedom, by Joshua Mitchell, in

THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 24, 1996, pp. 44-49

"The Religion of Democracy," a review of John Dewey and the High Tide of American

Liberalism, by Alan Ryan, in THE PUBLIC INTEREST, Winter 1996, pp. 133-139

"Communitarian Criticisms and Liberal Lessons," in THE RESPONSIVE COMMUNITY,

Fall 1995, pp. 54-64

"Friends of Liberalism Should be Grateful," a review of Passions and Constraint, by

Stephen Holmes, in the BOSTON BOOK REVIEW, September 1995, pp. 5-6

"Rediscovering Liberalism," a review of An Intellectual History of Liberalism, by

Pierre Manent, in the BOSTON BOOK REVIEW, March 1995, pp. 12, 14

"Liberal Zealotry," a review of The Anatomy of Antiliberalism, by Stephen Holmes,

103 YALE LAW JOURNAL 1363 (1994), pp. 1363-1382

"Nietzsche's Ethics of History," in REVIEW OF POLITICS, Winter 1994, pp. 6-27

Review of We the People, by Bruce Ackerman, in EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES,

Summer 1993, pp. 692-697

"Rabin's Victory and the Revitalization of the Israeli Center," a Hudson Briefing Paper,

no. 147, December 1992

"The Correspondence of I and Thou," a review of The Letters of Martin Buber, ed. Nahum

N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr, trans. Richard and Clara Winston and Harry

Zohn, in THE FORWARD, 20 November 1992, pp. 9, 11

Review of Nietzsche and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism, by Bruce Detwiler, in

POLITICAL THEORY, November 1991, pp. 683-687

"Toward a Feminist Orthodoxy," a review of Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, by

Catharine MacKinnon, 3 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND THE HUMANITIES

301 (1991), pp. 301-314

"On the Laws Governing Free Spirits and Philosophers of the Future," 100 YALE LAW

JOURNAL 701 (1990), pp. 701-722

"Nietzsche as Progressive," a review of Nietzsche and Political Thought, by Mark Warren,

in REVIEW OF POLITICS, Fall 1989, pp. 623-628

Work in Progress

Giving Liberalism Its Due

Rediscovering Liberalism

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

National Fellows Program Fellowship, Hoover Institution, (declined) March 1997

Thomas J. Wilson Prize, awarded annually by Harvard University Press to the

best book by a new author, 1995

Outstanding Teacher Award, American Political Science Association, September 1994

Hoopes Prize, for excellence in teaching, Harvard University, May 1994

John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship, July 1992-June 1993

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University

Professors, (declined) March 1992

Leo Strauss Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association for the best

doctoral dissertation in Political Philosophy completed during 1986-1987,

September 1988

Phi Beta Kappa, May 1981

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Hoopes Prize Committee, Harvard University, 1996-1999

Advisory Committee, Center for Jewish Political Thought,

Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, 1996-

External Examiner, Kenyon College, 1997

Bunting Institute Fellowships Committee, Harvard University,

1996-1997

Referee in tenure decisions for the University of Tel Aviv and

Tufts Univerty

	PETER BERKOWITZ

	3133 Connecticut Ave., NW Apt. 823 Washington, DC 20008 202 986-0596 berkowit@aol.com	George Mason University Law School 3401 N. Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22201 703 993-8247 berkowit@gmu.edu

EMPLOYMENT
	1999-	Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University Law School
	1994-	Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
	1990-1994	Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University


EDUCATION

	J.D.	Yale Law School, May 1990
	Ph.D.	Yale University, Political Science, with Distinction, December 1987
	M.A.	Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Philosophy, with Distinction, June 1985
	B.A.	Swarthmore College, English Literature, with HighHonors, June 1981

	Articles, Essays and Reviews
	"The Priority of Justice to Democracy," a review of Democratic Justice, by Ian
		Shapiro, in THE NEW REPUBLIC (forthcoming)
	"The Principle Problem," a review of The Trouble with Principle, by
		Stanley Fish, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 20, 2000
	"On the Separation of Religion and State in Israel," a short commentary, in Politics in the
		Jewish Tradition, ed. Michael Walzer (Yale University Press, 2000)
	Liberalism's Discontents," a review of The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the
		Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal
		Politics of Coercion and Control, ed. Hilton Kramer and Roger
		Kimball, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Feb. 21, 2000, pp. 33-35
	"Other People's Mothers," a review of A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution,
		and Cooperation, by Peter Singer, and Practical Ethics, 2nd ed,
		by Peter Singer, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, January 10, 1999, pp. 27-37
	"Response and Restatement," in Symposium: Virtue and the Making of
		Modern Liberalism,YALE JOURNAL OF ETHICS,
		December 1999, pp. 5-15
	""Feminism vs. Multiculturalism? The Liberal Project at Odds with Itself," a review
		of Is Multiculturalism bad for Women?, by SusanMoller Okin and
		respondents, ed. Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, and Martha C. Nussbaum,
		in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Novermber 1. 1999, pp. 40-43
	"Reduction and Betrayal," a review of The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory,
		by Richard A. Posner, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, August 23, 1999, pp. 38-45
	"A Measure of Compassion," in THE NEW REPUBLIC, August, 16, 1999, pp. 26-27
	"The Pearl Diver," a review of The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the
		Social, by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, June14, 1999
	"The Good Fight," in THE NEW REPUBLIC, May 10, 1999, pp. 20-21
	"Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places," a review of Monica's Story, by Andrew
		Morton, in THE JERUSALEM REPORT, April 26, 1999. pp. 48-49
	"Beyond Victimhood," a review of A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black
		Freedom in America, by Shelby Steele, in COMMENTARY,
		February 1999, pp. 66-67
	"Mill: Virtue, Liberty, and the Discipline of Individuality," in Mill and the Moral
		Character of Liberalism, ed. Eldon J. Eisenach (Penn State University
		Press, 1998), pp. 13-47
	"Toward a More Complex Liberalism," a review of The Virtues of Liberalism, by
		James Kloppenberg, in THE BOSTON BOOK REVIEW, October 1998, p. 25
	"Fear and Thinking," a review of Political Thought and Political Thinkers, by
		Judith N. Shklar, ed. Stanley Hoffmann, and Redeeming Political Thought,
		by Judith N. Shklar, ed. Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson, in
		THE NEW REPUBLIC, July 13, 1998, pp. 34-39
	"Can Liberalism be Saved" a review of Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth
		Century America, by Richard Rorty, in COMMENTARY, June 1998, pp. 75-78

	"The Reason of Revelation," a review of Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity,
		by Leo Strauss, ed. Kenneth Hart Green, in THE WEEKLY STANDARD,
		May 25, 1998, pp. 31-34
	Review of The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Kathleen Higgins and Bernd
		Magnus, in THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, Spring 1998
	Review of Free Markets and Social Justice, by Cass R. Sunstein, in the AMERICAN
		POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, March 1998, pp. 213-214
	"Liberalism Strikes Back," a review of The Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a
		History of Subjectivity, by Alain Renaut, trans. M.B. DeBevoise and Franklin Philip,
		in THE NEW REPUBLIC, December 15, 1997, pp. 32-37
	"Between Principles: Liberal Democracy and the Communitarian Challenge," in
		Democracy: The Challenges Ahead, ed. Yossi Shain and Aharon Klieman
		(London: MacMillan, 1997), pp. 19-29
	"Saving Liberalism's Soul," a review of The Growth of the Liberal Soul, by David Walsh,
		in FIRST THINGS, November 1997, pp. 47-52
	"The Politic Moralist," a review of Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau,
		and the Ethics of Politics, by Ruth W. Grant, in THE NEW REPUBLIC,
		September 1, 1997, pp. 36-40
	"Thou Shalt not Kill," a review of The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism,
		by Regina M. Schwartz, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 23, 1997, pp. 41-45
	"Beyond Pangloss," a review of Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as Charity of the
		Wise, by Patrick Riley, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, April 7, 1997, pp. 38-41
	"The Modern Styles of Politics," a review of The Politics of Faith & the Politics
		of Scepticism, by Michael Oakeshott, in FIRST THINGS, April 1997, pp. 38-42
	Review of Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity, by Steven B. Smith, in
		THE WILSON QUARTERLY, Spring 1997, p. 103
	"The Debating Society," a review of Democracy and Disagreement, by Amy Gutmann
		and Dennis Thompson, in THE NEW REPUBLIC, November 25, 1996, pp. 36-42
	"Liberalism's Virtue," in PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE, Fall 1996,
		pp. 183-191
	"The Arrogance of Compassion," a review of The Politics of Meaning, by Michael Lerner,
		in THE JERUSALEM REPORT, September 19, 1996, pp. 59-61
	"Science Fiction: Postmodernism Exposed," in THE NEW REPUBLIC, July 1, 1996,
		pp. 15-16
	"The Art of Association," a review of The Fragility of Freedom, by Joshua Mitchell, in
		THE NEW REPUBLIC, June 24, 1996, pp. 44-49
	"The Religion of Democracy," a review of John Dewey and the High Tide of American
		Liberalism, by Alan Ryan, in THE PUBLIC INTEREST, Winter 1996, pp. 133-139
	"Communitarian Criticisms and Liberal Lessons," in THE RESPONSIVE COMMUNITY,
		Fall 1995, pp. 54-64
	"Friends of Liberalism Should be Grateful," a review of Passions and Constraint, by
		Stephen Holmes, in the BOSTON BOOK REVIEW, September 1995, pp. 5-6

	"Rediscovering Liberalism," a review of An Intellectual History of Liberalism, by
		Pierre Manent, in the BOSTON BOOK REVIEW, March 1995, pp. 12, 14
	"Liberal Zealotry," a review of The Anatomy of Antiliberalism, by Stephen Holmes,
		103 YALE LAW JOURNAL 1363 (1994), pp. 1363-1382
	"Nietzsche's Ethics of History," in REVIEW OF POLITICS, Winter 1994, pp. 6-27
	Review of We the People, by Bruce Ackerman, in EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES,
		Summer 1993, pp. 692-697
	"Rabin's Victory and the Revitalization of the Israeli Center," a Hudson Briefing Paper,
		no. 147, December 1992
	"The Correspondence of I and Thou," a review of The Letters of Martin Buber, ed. Nahum
		N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr, trans. Richard and Clara Winston and Harry
		Zohn, in THE FORWARD, 20 November 1992, pp. 9, 11
	Review of Nietzsche and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism, by Bruce Detwiler, in
		POLITICAL THEORY, November 1991, pp. 683-687
	"Toward a Feminist Orthodoxy," a review of Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, by
		Catharine MacKinnon, 3 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND THE HUMANITIES
		301 (1991), pp. 301-314
	"On the Laws Governing Free Spirits and Philosophers of the Future," 100 YALE LAW
		JOURNAL 701 (1990), pp. 701-722
	"Nietzsche as Progressive," a review of Nietzsche and Political Thought, by Mark Warren,
		in REVIEW OF POLITICS, Fall 1989, pp. 623-628



	Work in Progress
	Giving Liberalism Its Due
	Rediscovering Liberalism



AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

	National Fellows Program Fellowship, Hoover Institution, (declined) March 1997
	Thomas J. Wilson Prize, awarded annually by Harvard University Press to the
		best book by a new author, 1995
	Outstanding Teacher Award, American Political Science Association, September 1994
	Hoopes Prize, for excellence in teaching, Harvard University, May 1994
	John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship, July 1992-June 1993
	National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University
		Professors, (declined) March 1992
	Leo Strauss Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association for the best
		doctoral dissertation in Political Philosophy completed during 1986-1987,
		September 1988
	Phi Beta Kappa, May 1981



PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

	Hoopes Prize Committee, Harvard University, 1996-1999
	Advisory Committee, Center for Jewish Political Thought,
	Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, 1996-
	External Examiner, Kenyon College, 1997
	Bunting Institute Fellowships Committee, Harvard University,
		1996-1997
	Referee in tenure decisions for the University of Tel Aviv and
		Tufts Univerty