Sellers, Mortimer

Introduction

Mortimer N. S. Sellers was born in 1959 in Philadelphia, PA. He is a lawyer, philosopher, historian, professor, administrator, and leader of intellectual inquiry and discussion, often convening colleagues from around the world to explore the enduring questions of law and philosophy. His contributions to and impacts on the philosophy of law and social philosophy are as deep and varied as his education and experience. He has left a significant impression on the field through his own research, his role as an educator, his abilities as a facilitator and promoter of others, and his unyielding commitment to the larger philosophic and scholarly project to which he has committed his professional life.

Biographical Sketch

After studying history as an undergraduate student at Harvard University, Sellers was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and studied history and philosophy at Oxford University (UK) where he earned his D.Phil. After his time as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned his Juris...