William E. Scheuerman
William E. Scheuerman is an American philosopher and James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington. He is known for his works on political theory.
Life
Scheuerman obtained a B.A. in philosophy at Yale University in 1987. He also spent a year abroad at the University of Munich on the Junior Year in Munich Program sponsored by Wayne State University.Starting in 1987 he was a PhD student in Harvard University's Department of Government, while again spending a year in Germany at the University of Frankfurt. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1993, with a dissertation titled "Reason, Radicalism, and the Rule of Law: The Frankfurt School and the Crisis of Modern Law". His committee members included Judith N. Shklar, Seyla Benhabib, Michael Sandel, and Bonnie Honig.
He was an assistant professor and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, associate professor and professor of political science and affiliated professor of law at the University of Minnesota. Since then, he has been a professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington.
Prizes
He is a winner of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for his book Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law in 1996. He has received fellowships from DAAD, the Humboldt Foundation, and a Fulbright Award in 2016.Publications
Articles
His work has been published in Constellations, History of Political Thought, International Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics & Society, Review of International Studies, and Social Research, among others.Books
Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law The Rule of Law Under Siege The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century From Liberal Democracy to Fascism: Legal and Political Thought in the Weimar Republic Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law Hans J. Morgenthau: Realism and Beyond High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity The Realist Case for Global Reform Civil Disobedience The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience- ''Property Disobedience as Protest: Rethinking Political Nonviolence''