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Scott T. FitzGibbon

Professor Scott FitzGibbon is a graduate of the Harvard Law School where he was an Articles Officer of the Harvard Law Review, and of Oxford University where he studied legal philosophy. He teaches Jurisprudence, Corporations, Securities Regulation, and Contracts and has taught courses in the Law and Theory of Marriage, Equity, and Professional Responsibility.

Professor FitzGibbon is the co-editor of The Jurisprudence of Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships and co-author of Glazer and FitzGibbon on Legal Opinions: Drafting, Interpreting and Supporting Closing Opinions in Business Transactions, and of numerous articles on legal philosophy, the family, and business law including the "The Failure of the Freedom-Based and Utilitarian Justifications for Assisted Suicide," in the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the International Society of Family Law, and the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.

Professor FitzGibbon is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family and Senior Vice President of the International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family.

Works

Article

The Law's Duty to Promote the Kinship System: Implications for Assisted Reproductive Techniques and for Proposed Redefinitions of Familial Relations

2015