John Lawrence Hill Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy John S. Grimes Fellow Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 301 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 278-9036 Fax: (317) 278-7563 E-Mail: johlhill@iupui.edu Web Page

Education

B.A., 1982, M.A., 1985, Northern Illinois University
J.D., 1988, Ph.D., 1989, Georgetown University

Courses

Constitutional law, criminal law, civil procedure and torts. Electives include Jurisprudence, Philosophical Issues in the Criminal Law and Bioethics and Law

Bio

Professor Hill holds a J.D. and Ph.D. in philosophy, both from Georgetown University. His combined interests in law and philosophy have led to two areas of teaching and scholarly focus: political and legal theory and bioethics. He has written three books and several articles on such varied topics as surrogate mother contracts and the concept of duress in criminal and contract law, and has also written about the concepts of exploitation, merit, freedom and the idea of the self in legal and moral thought. His articles have appeared in the New York University Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Iowa Law Review and the Georgetown Law Journal, among others. His "intentional" theory of parenting in surrogate mother contracts, defended in the New York Law Review article, was cited and adopted by the Supreme Court of California in Johnson v Calvert.

Professor Hill joined the faculty at IU-Indianapolis in 2003 after teaching at Chicago-Kent and Western New England law schools, among others. He is a member of the Bar of Illinois and California.  Professor Hill's most recent publication is The Political Centrist, which was released in the Fall of 2009 by Vanderbilt University Press. The book argues that liberalism and conservatism are meaningless labels and defends a centrist approach to American politics. Part I traces the history of liberalism and conservatism and Part II includes chapters on various hot-button political topics including judicial activism, abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty and the debate over illegal immigration, among others.

Link to Professor Hill’s The Political Centrist

Publications

Books and Chapters

The Political Centrist, forthcoming Vanderbilt University Press, Fall, 2009.

The Case for Vegetarianism (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).

The Enlightened Society (Theosophical Publishing House, 1987).

Chapter: "The Zone of Privacy and the Right to Use Drugs," in Drug Legalization:For and Against (Evans and Berent eds. 1992.)"


Law Review and Journal Articles

"The Constitutional Status of Morals Legislation," 98 Kentucky Law Journal 1 (2009)(forthcoming this Fall).

The Five Faces of Liberty in American Political and Constitutional Thought, 45 Boston College Law Review 499-594 (2004).

A Third Theory of Liberty: The Evolution of Our Conception of Freedon in American Constitutional Thought, 29 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 115-184 (2002).

A Theory of Merit, 1 Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 15-75 (2002).

A Utilitarian Theory of Duress, 84 Iowa Law Review 275-338 (1999).

Moralized Theories of Coercion: A Critical Analysis, 74 Denver Law Review 907 (1997) (by invitation for a symposium on "Exploitation and Coercion".)

Law and the Concept of the Core Self: Toward a Reconciliation of Naturalism and Humanism, 80 Marquette Law Review 289-390 (1997).

Mill, Freud, and Skinner: The Concept of the Self and the Moral Psychology of Liberty, 26 Seton Hall Law Review 92-182 (1995).

Exploitation, 79 Cornell Law Review 631-699 (1994).

What Does it Mean to be a Parent?: The Claims of Biology as the Basis for Parental Rights, 66 New York University Law Review 353-420 (1991) (quoted and analysis adopted by the Supreme Court of California in Johnson v. Calvert, 851 P. 2d 776, 781-82 (Cal. 1993)).

Note, Freedom, Determinism and the Externalization of Responsibility in the Law: A Philosophical Analysis, 76 Georgetown Law Journal 2045-2073 (1988).


Essays and Reports

Supreme Court Review: Criminal Law Cases, 2001-02, Western New England College of Law, Oct. 19, 2002.

A Critique of Moralized Theories of Coercion at a conference on Coercion and Exploitation, University of Denver, March 14-15, 1997

Advanced Directives and Proxy Decision - Making in the Care of the Incompetent, Terminally Ill Patient, delivered to the CEREC conference on Issues in Death and Dying, August 25, 1996 (to an international audience of attorneys and health care professionals.)

Virtue and the Depersonalization of Professional Ethics, Paper delivered at a National Conference on Ethics in America, February 19-21, 1992.

Beyond Biology: Toward and Intentional View of Parenting. Paper delivered at a conference on Science, Technology and Religous Ideas at the Institute for Liberal Studies, Kentucky State University, Aprrl 6-7, 1990.

Speaker and Consultant to the Chicago Bar Association, Development of the Law Committee. Participated in the analysis of proposed laws on surrogate motherhood to the Bar Association and to the Illinois State legislature. (1989-91).


Other Publications

Should Vegetarians Be Moral Proselytizers?, 17(6) The Animals' Agenda 44-45 (Nov./Dec. 1997).

Member, Institutional Reviews Board for the Protection of Human Research Subjects, California State University at Fullerton (1993-94).

The Zone of Privacy and the Right to Use Drugs: A Jurisprudential Critique, in Drug Legalization: For and Against (Evans and Berent eds,. 1992).

In Defense of Enforcement of the Surrogate Contract: A Reply to Field, 9 Politics and the Life Sciences 253 (February, 1991).

The Case for Enforcement of the Surrogate Contract, 8 Politics and the Life Sciences 147 (February, 1990).

In Defense of Surrogate Parenting Arrangements: An Ethical and Legal Analysis (Dissertation on file with UMI, 1989).


Work in Progress

Article: The Progressive's Delimma

Book: The Moral and Political Consquences of Secular Materialism.