Erik Encarnacion
Assistant Professor of Law at The University of Texas at Austin
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Erik Encarnacion’s research focuses on the moral and conceptual foundations of private law, especially contract law, tort law, and more recently, the private law aspects of antidiscrimination law. His work appears in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals. Before coming to Texas Law, he was a Law & Philosophy Fellow at UCLA School of Law and a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School.
Professor Encarnacion completed a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Southern California. Before USC, he was a litigation associate in the Dallas and New York offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. He also clerked for the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Memphis, Tennessee.
Professor Encarnacion received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was awarded the Milton B. Conford Prize in Jurisprudence. Before law school he graduated magna cum laude in philosophy from Princeton University. He grew up in El Paso, Texas.
Education
- JD Columbia
- PhD University of Southern California
- AB Princeton
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