Professor Tamanaha is the John S. Lehmann University Professor at Washington University School of Law. He is the author of eleven books in legal theory and law and society, which have collectively received six awards, including the 2019 IVR Prize in Legal Philosophy, the 2006 Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory, and the 2002 Herbert Jacob Prize in Law and Society. He has delivered eight named lectures around the globe, including the Kobe Memorial Lecture in Tokyo, the Julius Stone Address in Sydney, and the Montesquieu Lecture in Tilburg, and his work has been translated into twelve languages. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, Kobe University, Columbia Law School, and Georgetown Law School, and spent a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
