Christopher Kutz

Christopher Kutz is the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Berkeley Law in 1998 after clerkships with Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. His academic roles include visiting professorships at Columbia Law School, Stanford Law School, and Sciences Po University in Paris.

• Education:
• B.A., Yale University (1989)
• Ph.D., UC Berkeley (1996)
• J.D., Yale University (1997)

His research focuses on moral, political, and legal philosophy with emphases on criminal law, international law, constitutional law, and democratic theory. Key themes include complicity in collective harm, ethics of warfare, climate change responsibilities, and democratic accountability. He teaches criminal law and philosophy courses.

Notable publications include Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age (2000) and On War and Democracy (2016), exploring state violence ethics and democratic limitations on warfare. Recent work addresses norm erosion in international relations and justifications for national defense.

He has held no listed awards but maintains active engagement in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. No advising record or grant details are provided in the source text.