Felipe Jiménez
USC Gould School of Law

Felipe Jiménez works in the areas of private law, legal theory and comparative private law. He teaches contracts, and upper-level seminars and undergraduate courses on private law, legal reasoning and legal theory.

Jiménez graduated, summa cum laude, from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and holds LLM (Legal Theory) and JSD degrees from New York University. He has also worked as a lawyer specialized in international arbitration and commercial litigation in Chile and the United States.

Jiménez has written articles on contract theory, the theory of adjudication and jurisprudence. His work in Spanish also includes articles and book chapters on Chilean private law and on legal theory. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, the University of Chicago Law Review Online, the University of Toronto Law Journal, the Utah Law Review, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, and Ratio Juris, among others.  

Works in Progress

• A book on contract theory
• A paper on the rule of law and legal obligation
• A paper on antitrust law, legal reasoning, and institutional design

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Legal Positivism for Legal Officials," Forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence (2023).  - (SSRN)
• "Private Law Legalism," Forthcoming in University of Toronto Law Journal (2023).  - (SSRN)
• “The Limits of Experimental Jurisprudence,” Forthcoming in Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence (K. Tobia ed., 2023). - (SSRN)
• “Understanding Private Law,” Forthcoming in Methodology in Private Law (P. Miller & T. Kuntz eds., 2023). 
• “Book Review: Paolo Sandro, The Making of Constitutional Democracy,” Forthcoming in 68 (1) American Journal of Jurisprudence (2023).  - (SSRN)
• "Specific Performance," Forthcoming in Research Handbook in the Philosophy of Contract Law (M. Chen-Wishart & P. Saprai eds., Edward Elgar, 2023).
• "Justifying Private Law," Forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Vol. II (P. Miller & J. Oberdick eds., 2023). - (SSRN)
• "Legal Principles, Law, and Tradition," 33 (1) Yale Journal of Law and The Humanities (2022). - (SSRN)
• "The Grounds of Arbitral Authority," 96 (4) Tulane Law Review (2022). - (SSRN)
• “Rethinking Contract Remedies,” 53 (4) Arizona State Law Journal (2021). - (www)
• "Some Doubts about Folk Jurisprudence: The Case of Proximate Cause," The University of Chicago Law Review Online (2021). - (www) - (SSRN)
• "Law, Morality, and the One-System View: A Response to T.R.S. Allan," The American Journal of Jurisprudence (2021).
• "Two Questions for Private Law Theory," Jurisprudence (2021). - (SSRN)
• "Contracts, Markets, and Justice," 71 (1) University of Toronto Law Journal 144 (2021). - (www) - (SSRN)
• "A Formalist Theory of Contract Law Adjudication," 2020 (5) Utah Law Review 1121 (2020). - (PDF)
• "Against Parochialism in Contract Theory: A Response to Brian Bix," 32 (2) Ratio Juris 233 (2019). - (SSRN) - (www)
• Book Review: "La Forma del Derecho," (with Martin Hevia) 15 (2) International Journal of Constitutional Law 578 (2017). - (www)
• "Ni Función ni Estructura: Una respuesta a la idea de justicia constitucional de Fernando Atria," (with Sergio Verdugo) in Comentarios a La Forma del Derecho (J. Gallego ed., 2020). - (SSRN)
• "¿Es el enriquecimiento injustificado un principio de justicia?," in Fundamentos Filosóficos del Derecho Civil Chileno (E. Pereira ed., Rubicon, 2019). 
• "Una crítica a la idea de incumplimiento eficiente desde el Derecho de Contratos," 29 Revista Chilena De Derecho Privado 99 (2017). - (Hein)
• "Comentario a la sentencia de Corte de Apelaciones de Santiago Rol No. 2259-2010, 6 de mayo de 2011," in Contratos: Jurisprudencia Civil Comentada (P. Cornejo and J. Larrocau eds., 2017). 
• "La Teoría del Derecho de Contratos y su Relación con la Dogmática," 44 (2) Revista Chilena De Derecho 395 (2017). - (Hein) - (www)
• "Dos implicancias de la igualdad relacional," 144 Estudios Públicos 31 (2017). - (www)
• Book Review: "¿Por qué obligan los contratos?," 22 (2) Ius Et Praxis 531 (2016).  - (www)

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May 23, 2023
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