George P. Fletcher is Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Colombia University. He was visiting professor in Jerusalem (1972-73 and 1993); Harvard (1973-74); Yale (1977); Frankfurt (1980); Budapest (1990); Brussels (1991); Toronto (2001), and Hamburg (2002). He is associated with the Hartman Center in Jerusalem and the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg.
He is a winner of the German Wissenschaftspreis 1995. He delivered Storrs Lectures at Yale in 2001. He was a Member of California Bar Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County (1971). In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was founder and editor of S'vara, a Journal of Philosophy and Judaism (1990-93). His publications include major articles on criminal law, comparative law, torts, and jurisprudence.
His current fields of interest include international criminal law, the jurisprudence of war, and biblical jurisprudence.
He is the author of eight books: Rethinking Criminal Law (1978), which received an Order of the Coif award (1980); A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial (1988), which received the ABA Silver Gavel Award (1989); Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships (1993); With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials (1995); Basic Concepts of Legal Thought (1996); Basic Concepts of Criminal Law (1998); Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy (2001), designated by the American Association of Publishers as the best book on law published in 2001; and Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism (2002).