Richard Gaskins

Proskauer Chair in Law and Social Welfare

gaskins@brandeis.edu
781-736-3028
Brown Social Science Center, 313

Departments/Programs

African and African American Studies
American Studies
International and Global Studies
Philosophy
Politics

Degrees

Yale University, J.D.
Yale University, Ph.D.
University of Southern California, B.A.

Expertise

Comparative law and social welfare, global justice and human rights, economic philosophies, legal argumentation.

Profile

Director, Legal Studies Program,

Courses Taught

IGS/LGLS	128b	Networks of Global Justice
IGS/LGLS	180a	The Spirit of International Law
IGS/LGLS	185b	Advocacy in the International Criminal Court
PHIL	13b	The Idea of the Market: Economic Philosophies

Awards and Honors

Fulbright Senior Specialist grant, University of Iceland (for Fall 2017) (2017)

Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring (2011)

Renewal of serial award as Fulbright Senior Specialist (New Zealand) (2003)

Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant (New Zealand) (2002)

Fulbright Senior Scholar, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) (1999)

Scholarship

Gaskins, Richard. "Marcuse's Hegel: Hope and Despair in the Logic of Negation." Society 55. 4 (2018): 361-66.

Gaskins, Richard. "“The Legal Characterization of Facts at the International Criminal Court"." Legal Argumentation and the Rule of Law. Ed. E.T. Feteris, H. Kloosterhuis, H.J. Plug, C.E. Smith. The Hague: Eleven Publ., 2017. 59-68.

Gaskins, Richard. "Political Development in Early Iceland: Applying Network Theory to the Sagas." Applications of Network Theory to Medieval and Modern Literary and Cultural Traditions. Ed. Kramarz-Bein, Susanne and Hilsmann, Birge. Muenster: LIT, 2015

Gaskins, Richard. "The Enigma of Community Responsibility: Ethical Reflections on Accident Compensation." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review (New Zealand) 46. (2015): 789-810.

Gaskins, Richard. "Accounting for Accidents: Social Costs of Personal Injuries." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 41. (2010): 37-50.

Gaskins, Richard. "Creating at the Margins: Cultural Dynamics in Early Iceland." Gripla 20. (2009): 93-108.

Gaskins, Richard. "Regulating Private Law: Socio-Legal Perspectives on the New Zealand Accident Compensation Scheme." Torts Law Journal 17. 1 (2009): 24-34.

Gaskins,Richard. Burdens of Proof in Modern Discourse. Yale University Press, 1993.

Gaskins,Richard. Environmental Accidents: Personal Injury and Public Responsibility. Temple University Press, 1989.