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Lauren Hall

Associate Dean

Dean’s Office
College of Liberal Arts

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Lauren Hall

Associate Dean

Dean’s Office
College of Liberal Arts

Education

BA, State University of New York at Binghamton; MA, Ph.D., Northern Illinois University

Bio

Lauren Hall is professor and associate dean of Academic Affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology College of Liberal Arts. She is the author of The Medicalization of Birth and Death (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) and Family and the Politics of Moderation (Baylor University Press, 2014) and the co-editor of a volume on the political philosophy of French political thinker Chantal Delsol. She has written extensively on the classical liberal tradition, including articles on Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and Montesquieu. She serves on the editorial board of the interdisciplinary journal Cosmos+Taxis, which publishes on spontaneous orders in the social and political worlds. Her current research is on the moral and political implications of healthcare regulations as well as issues relating to gender and the family. 

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Invited Paper
Hall, Lauren and Steve Horwitz. "Midwifery Licensing: Medicalization of Birth and Special Interests." Mercatus Center. (2021). Web.
Hall, Lauren. "A Not-Quite-Realistic Turn: A Burkean Reply and A Rights-Based Alternative." Reason Papers: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies. (2021). Web.
Book Chapter
Hall, Lauren. "Nature, Second Nature, and Supernature: Death and Consolation in the Thought of Edmund Burke." Political Theory of Death and Dying. New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. NA. Print.
Hall, Lauren K. "Burke’s Liberalism: Prejudice, Habit, and Affections and the Remaking of the Social Contract." Reclaiming Liberalism. New York, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. 100-130. Print.
Hall, Lauren K. "“The Ninth Amendment and Substantive Due Process: Sterilization, Reproductive Rights, and the Path "‹Not Taken.”." American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family: Obergefell v. Hodges "‹and U.S. v. Windsor in Context. Ed. Patrick Cain and David Ramsey, eds.. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. 5-100. Print.
Hall, Lauren K. "Two Invisible Hands: Family, Markets, and the Adam Smith Problem"." Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith. London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. 240-253. Print.
Hall, Lauren K. "John Locke, Charles Darwin, and the Social Individualism of Virtue." The Science of Modern Virtue. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013. 128-143. Print.
Journal Paper
Hall, Lauren K. and Randy Hebert, MD. "“Palliative Care and the Tragedy of the Commons”." Journal of Palliative Care March 5, 2020, online. (2020): N/A. Web.
Hall, Lauren K. "Guiding the Invisible Hand: Spontaneous Orders and the Problem of Character"." Cosmos+Taxis 2. 1 (2014): 34-44. Print.
Hall, Lauren K. "Political Graveyards: The Political Significance of Burial and Remembrance." Society 48. 4 (2011): 316-322. Print.
Hall, Lauren K. "Rights and the Heart: Emotions and Rights Claims in the Political Theory of Edmund Burke." Review of Politics 73. (2011): 1-23. Print.
Full Length Book
Hall, Lauren K. The Medicalization of Birth and Death. 1 ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Print.
Hall, Lauren K. Family and the Politics of Moderation: Private Life, Public Goods, and the Rebirth of Social Individualism. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014. Print.
Hall, Lauren K. and Paul Seaton. Lucid Mind, Intrepid Spirit: Essays on the Thought of Chantal Delsol. 1st ed. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. Print.

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