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Sharon Lloyd
USC Gould School of Law

Sharon Lloyd

Professor of Philosophy, Law and Political Science

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Telephone: (213) 740-5175
699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA Personal Website: Link

Last Updated: July 5, 2018




Sharon A. Lloyd, a foremost scholar on the theory of philosopher Thomas Hobbes, has a joint appointment with the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on contemporary moral and social issues, political philosophy and its history, animal rights and liberal feminist philosophy. Lloyd teaches both contemporary and historical political philosophy, historical moral philosophy and philosophy of law. She also co-directs the USC Center for Law and Philosophy.

A co-editor of Pacific Philosophical Quarterly and editorial associate of Law and Philosophy, Lloyd is author of Ideals and Interests in Hobbes’s Leviathan (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and the forthcoming Cases in the Law of Nature: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

Lloyd attended UCLA and earned her PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University.

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