Wendy Salkin is a PhD candidate in Philosophy. Her primary research is at the intersection of political and moral philosophy. She is also interested in philosophy of law, bioethics, feminist philosophy, and constitutional law. Her dissertation considers what makes political representatives legitimate and how (if at all) informal political representatives can justify their representative activities to those for whom they claim to speak and act. Wendy has served as a teaching fellow in philosophy at Harvard, a lecturer at San Francisco State University teaching courses in philosophy of law and medical ethics, and a lecturer in political philosophy and legal theory at San Quentin’s Prison University Project. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Africana Studies from New York University and a JD from Stanford Law School. She has served as a law clerk to the Honorable Rosemary Barkett and the Honorable Adalberto Jordan on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She has also served as legal adviser to Judge Barkett on the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague.

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