Jonathan Gingerich

Jonathan Gingerich works on foundational issues in ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, and jurisprudence that have implications for constitutional law, property, intellectual property, and the legal regulation of technology. Methodologically, he uses tools from analytic philosophy, phenomenology, feminist theory, and critical race theory. From 2024 to 2029, Professor Gingerich is running a research project on ‘The Spontaneity of Freedom’ (SPONT) based at University College London, which was selected for funding by the European Research Council and is funded by UKRI.

Professor Gingerich is currently working on two book projects. The first is about the nature and value of spontaneous freedom–the freedom of acting in unplanned and unscripted ways–and its implications for ethics, politics, and law and technology. The second is a monograph co-authored with Daniela Dover on Simone de Beauvoir’s moral psychology, metaethics, and ethics.

Professor Gingerich holds an A.B. from Georgetown University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining Rutgers, Professor Gingerich was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Law at King’s College London. He has published articles in journals such as Ethics, Yale Journal of Law and Technology, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Northeastern University Law Review. Professor Gingerich is an Advisor of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, Affiliate of the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance, and Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Philosophy Department.