George P. Fletcher (born March 5, 1939) is the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University School of Law. Fletcher Curriculum Vitae
Fletcher attended Cornell University from 1956 to 1959, studying mathematics and Russian. He received a B.A. in 1960 from University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. in 1964 from the University of Chicago. He studied at the University of Freiburg from 1964 to 1965 and received a Masters in Comparative Law in 1965 from the University of Chicago.
Fletcher is a noted expert on criminal law. His widely-taught book Rethinking Criminal Law is a "well known time-honored classic of criminal law jurisprudence and the most cited scholarly book on criminal law." Fletcher was honored on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication with a "Symposium: Twenty-Five Years of George Fletcher's Rethinking Criminal Law."
Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why, co-authored with Jens Ohlin Oxford University Press 2008
Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy (Oxford 2001) was honored as the best book on law published in 2001.
With Justice for Some: Victims’ Rights in Criminal Trials (Addison Wesley 1995), quoted by Marsha Clark in the O.J. Simpson trial.
Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships (Oxford 1993), praised by William Safire twice in his column in the New York Times, translated in French, German, and Spanish.
A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial (Free Press 1988) received the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, translated into German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.
Rethinking Criminal Law (Little Brown 1978) received the Order-of-Coif award as one of the best books published on law in the late 1970s
Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism (Princeton University Press, 2002)
Basic Concepts of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 1998) (Spanish edition, 1997; Russian edition, 1998; Italian edition forthcoming)
Basic Concepts of Legal Thought (Oxford University Press, 1996)
With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials (Addison-Wesley,1995) (paperback, 1996; Spanish edition, 1996)
Introduzione Elementare alla Scienza Giuridica (II. Cardozo Lectures in Law)
Justification and Excuse: Comparative Perspectives, Volumes I and II (ed. with A. Eser 1987)
Courts of Terror (Fletcher, Dershowitz et al. eds., Knopf 1976)