David A. J. Richards

David A. J. Richards is an American constitutional lawyer and moral philosopher, authoring works which integrate interdisciplinary approaches to law and culture. He is the Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University.Richards has authored over twenty books including Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies, Free Speech and the Politics of Identity, Patriarchal Religion, Gender, and Sexuality: a Critique of New Natural Law and Boys' Secrets and Men's Loves: a Memoir. He has co-taught for many years an interdisciplinary seminar, Resisting Injustice, with the developmental psychologist Carol Gilligan, resulting in their co-authoring two books on the psychology of resisting injustices rooted in patriarchy. He has also co-taught an interdisciplinary seminar, Retributivism in Criminal Law Theory and Practice, with the psychiatrist of personal and political violence, James Gilligan.