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Chris Kutz, professor of law

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Christopher Kutz is a professor of law at UC Berkeley and chair of the campus's Academic Senate. As a faculty member in Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, his research focuses on moral, political and legal philosophy. His current work centers on democratic theory, the law of war, the metaphysics of criminal law and the nature of political legitimacy. His publications include "The Collective Work of Citizenship" in Legal Theory (2002); "Justice in Reparations: The Cost of Memory and the Value of Talk" in Philosophy & Public Affairs (2004); "The Difference Uniforms Make: Collective Violence in Criminal Law and the Law of War." Philosophy & Public Affairs (2005); and "The Lawyers Know Sin: Complicity in Torture," ed. Karen J. Greenberg, The Torture Debate in America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).