Douglas Lind

Douglas Lind’s research centers on the philosophy of law, legal reasoning, judicial decision-making and, secondarily, environmental ethics and law. He is heavily influenced by the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and classical pragmatist philosophy.

Lind is currently developing a general pragmatist jurisprudence with particular emphasis on understanding the evolution of legal meaning, the creation of legal doctrines such as the tort maxim res ipsa loquitur, and the inventive phenomenon of legal fictions.

In addition to scholarly writing, Lind regularly offers seminars and workshops on logic, legal reasoning, and judicial method to judges and lawyers in the United States and abroad, especially Australia and New Zealand. Lind is also the founding director of the Tribal Law Exchange.