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Nick Serafin
Albert J. Ruffo Assistant Professor of Law

Nicholas Serafin works at the intersection of moral and political philosophy and anti-discrimination law and policy. Professor Serafin earned a PhD in philosophy in 2019 from the University of Michigan and was a finalist for the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. He earned a JD from Yale Law School in 2012, where he worked for the International Refugee Assistance Project and the ACLU LGBTQ Rights Project. Professor Serafin's work is forthcoming in the BYU Law Review and was featured in Slate. He is currently interested in the foundations of moral equality and the moral basis of anti-discrimination law.

Education

J.D., Yale University

PhD Philosophy, University of Michigan

M.A. Philosophy, Tufts University

B.A. Philosophy, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Publications

Articles

Redefining the Badges of Slavery, 56 U. Rich. L. Rev. (forthcoming) (2022) | Link to Full Text

In Defense of Immutability, 2020 BYU L. Rev. 275 (2020) | Link to Full Text