Jeffrey Helmreich
Associate Professor, Philosophy and Law
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Director of Humanities and Law Minor
Co-Director (with Ken Simons), Center for Legal Philosophy
Ph.D., UCLA
J.D., Georgetown
B.A., Columbia
J.D., Georgetown
B.A., Columbia
University of California, Irvine
71 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 4555
Irvine, CA 92697
71 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 4555
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Ethics, Action, Jurisprudence
Appointments
Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation (2011-13)
Research Abstract
I work in ethics and legal philosophy. Some recent areas of focus include moral psychology, speech acts, moral and legal remedy, and the philosophy of torts and evidence.
Publications
BOOKS (edited):
The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Rights, co-edited with Margaret Gilbert and Gopal Sreenivasan (forthcoming)
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:
The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Rights, co-edited with Margaret Gilbert and Gopal Sreenivasan (forthcoming)
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:
"Does 'Sorry' Incriminate? Evidence, Harm and the Protection of Apology" Cornell JLPP
"Putting Down: Expressive Subordination and Equal Protection," UCLA Law Rev. Disc.
"Reasonable Doubts or Doubtable Reasons? The Case for an Objective Standard" BJALS Link
"The Apologetic Stance" Phil.&Public Affairs
"Overcoming Luck: Two Trends in Legal Philosophy" Analysis
"Taking a Stance: an Account for Persons and Institutions" Springer Link
"A Jurisprudential Puzzle as Old as the Talmud" OUP Link
"The Bounds of Morality: Gilbert on Promissory Obligation" ProtoSociology
"Accepting Forgiveness" J.Ethics
"Against the Odds: the Case for a Modal Understanding of Due Care," with Duncan Pritchard, in The Social Epistemology of Legal Trials (Routledge 2020) .
"Advertising as Guaranteeing: a Defense of Strict Liability," in Problema: an International Journal of Jurisprudence.
"Legal Rights and Joint Commitment," Philosophy & Phenom. Research
"Which Wrongs Make a Right? Goldberg and Zipursky on Torts," in Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies.
"True Defamation,"The Journal of Free Speech Law 4 (2024): 835-64.
"Against Harm: Keating on the Soul of Tort Law," Journal of Tort Law 17:1 (2024): 33-43.
“Guilt without Fault,” The Psychoanalytic Review 112:4 (2025): 425-42
"Rights to Redress," The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Rights (Margaret Gilbert, Jeffrey Helmreich and Gopal Sreenivasan, eds.), forthcoming.
"Do Wronging and Righting Come Apart?" forthcoming in Law and Philosophy (special issue discussing Nicolas Cornell's Wrongs and Rights Come Apart)
Under Review:
Guarantees and Propositional Promises
The Give in Forgiveness
Guarantees and Propositional Promises
The Give in Forgiveness
Works in Progress:
Is there a Duty to Cooperate with an Unjust Penal System?
A Defense of Agent Regret: the Argument from Sincerity
Beyond Intention: Sincerity in Promising and Committing
Tort Repair and Moral Repair: Closer than You Think
Is there a Duty to Cooperate with an Unjust Penal System?
A Defense of Agent Regret: the Argument from Sincerity
Beyond Intention: Sincerity in Promising and Committing
Tort Repair and Moral Repair: Closer than You Think
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Last updated
10/04/2026
10/04/2026