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Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at University of Chicago. She holds appointments in the Law School and the Philosophy Department and she is an Associate in the Classics Department, the Divinity School, and the Political Science Department. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University and her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard. Before moving to University of Chicago, she taught at Harvard University, Brown University, and Oxford University.
Nussbaum has received a large number of honors and awards. For example, she won the Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Nonfiction in 1990, the Ness Book award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 1991, the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the best collection of essays also in 1991, the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2002, Association of American University Publishers Professional and Scholarly Book Award for Law in...
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Nussbaum M (2001) Upheavals of thought: the intelligence of emotions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA
Nussbaum M (2004) Hiding from humanity disgust, shame, and the law. Princeton University Press, Princeton
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Nussbaum M (2008) Liberty of conscience: in defense of America’s tradition of religious equality. Basic Books, New York
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Ilea, R. (2017). Martha Nussbaum. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_44-1
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