Professional Biography

David Lyons is an authority on legal philosophy who has written extensively on utilitarianism and the moral aspects of legal theory. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University and completing a Knox Fellowship in Oxford, Professor Lyons began teaching philosophy at Cornell in 1964, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970. The Chairman of Cornell University's Philosophy Department from 1978-1984, Professor Lyons began teaching in the Law School in 1979. When he retired from Cornell in 1995, Professor Lyons had authored numerous philosophical texts and was a three-time NEH Fellow. Professor Lyons continues to teach legal philosophy at Boston University.