Jack Knight is a renowned political scientist and legal theorist. His academic contributions are about political, social, and law theory. He is currently a professor of politics, philosophy and economics at Duke University School of Law

Duke University School of Law

The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...

 and at the Duke's Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate liberal arts college at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The college is currently one of two undergraduate divisions at Duke, the other being the Edmund T...

. He is the author of several books such as Institutions and Social Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Explaining Social Institutions (The University of Michigan Press, 1995), and The Choices Justices Make (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1997) with which he won the American Political Science Association

American Political Science Association

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 C. Herman Prichett Award. He has also written plenty of journal articles and edited volumes about democratic theory, rules of law, judicial decision-making, and theories of institutional emergence and change. He has colaborated as a professor and researcher in universities at Washington, Chicago

Chicago

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, Michigan

Michigan

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, Virginia

Virginia

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, Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, and Bonn

Bonn

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. Professor Knight holds a bachelor’s degree and JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 and a MA and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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