Vincent Luizzi

**Vincent Luizzi**
Vincent Luizzi
Born	1948 (age 77–78); Endicott, NY
Spouse	James Shew
Awards	Fulbright Specialist in Law (South Africa and Bosnia), Special Award of International Society for Universalism, Phi Beta Kappa
Education
Education	University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.); University of Rochester (A.B.); Boston University School of Law (J.D.)
Thesis	A Naturalistic Theory of Justice: A Critique of C. I. Lewis' Ethics (1973)
Doctoral advisor	Elizabeth Flower
Philosophical work
Era	21st century Philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic and Pragmatism
Institutions	Texas State University
Main interests	philosophy of law and legal ethics
Notable ideas	Developed general approach to ethics from legal ethics; and to jurisprudence (regarding law, judging, and punishment), from a study of people’s courts, in each case moving from a seemingly restricted field to one with general or universal significance.

Vincent Luizzi is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Texas State University (1976-2022).^[1] He is known for his expertise in legal ethics and philosophy of law.^[2] Luizzi was longtime Chair of Philosophy at Texas State University (1982-2014). A member of the State Bar of Texas, he served as a municipal judge in San Marcos, Texas^[3]^[4]^[5] and as a magistrate in and for the State of Texas, 1983-2018.

Books

Appeal to the People’s Court: Rethinking Law, Adjudication, and Punishment, Brill, 2018.
New and Old World Philosophy, with Audrey McKinney, Prentice Hall, 2001
A Case for Legal Ethics: Legal Ethics as a Source for a Universal Ethic, with a foreword by John R. Silber, State University of New York Press, 1993.
A Naturalistic Theory of Justice: Critical Commentary and Readings on C.I. Lewis's Ethics, University Press of America, 1981.

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Vincent Luizzi
Born	1948 (age 77–78) Endicott, NY
Spouse	James Shew
Awards	Fulbright Specialist in Law (South Africa and Bosnia), Special Award of International Society for Universalism, Phi Beta Kappa

Education
Education	University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.) University of Rochester (A.B.) Boston University School of Law (J.D.)
Thesis	A Naturalistic Theory of Justice: A Critique of C. I. Lewis' Ethics (1973)
Doctoral advisor	Elizabeth Flower
Philosophical work
Era	21st century Philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic and Pragmatism
Institutions	Texas State University
Main interests	philosophy of law and legal ethics
Notable ideas	Developed general approach to ethics from legal ethics; and to jurisprudence (regarding law, judging, and punishment), from a study of people’s courts, in each case moving from a seemingly restricted field to one with general or universal significance.