Rutgers Law School Distinguished Professor John Oberdiek won the 2023 Fred Berger Memorial Prize in Philosophy of Law, awarded by the American Philosophical Association (APA). His article, “The Wrong in Negligence,” was published in 2021 in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. As part of the prize, the APA will host a special symposium on the topic of the article this upcoming spring at its Pacific Division meeting in San Francisco, California. The prize is awarded every two years.

The Fred Berger Memorial Prize was established by the APA in memory of Professor Berger of the University of California at Davis. The prize is awarded to an outstanding published article in philosophy of law by an APA member.

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