Dr. Erik Encarnacion

Biography

Erik Encarnacion’s research focuses on moral conceptual foundations of private law, particularly in contract law, tort law, and aspects of antidiscrimination law. His work has been published in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals and has been presented at prestigious forums including the Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum and the Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference. Prior to joining Texas Law, Professor Encarnacion was a Law & Philosophy Fellow at UCLA and a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. He completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Southern California and clerked for the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude and was awarded the Milton B. Conford Prize in Jurisprudence. Additionally, he holds an A.B. from Princeton University. Growing up in El Paso, Texas, he has developed a keen interest in the implications of private law within social contexts.

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