Professor Kipnis has been a member of the Department since 1979, having previously taught at Lake Forest College and Purdue University. He received his doctorate from Brandeis University and his M.A. from the University of Chicago where he also studied law. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and a Humanist-Resident at the Department of Pediatrics at Kapiolani Women's and Children's Hospital in Honolulu, a project funded by the Hawaii Committee for the Humanities and other local foundations. He has also been a Humanist in-Residence at the G. N. Wilcox Memorial Hospital on Kauai. Professor Kipnis was instrumental in developing a code of ethics for the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a 60,000-member professional association of pre-school educators. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL). He has published works on property rights and on legal ethics. A recent paper on the surgical treatment of intersexuality received the GIRES award for research on gender identity. Professor Kipnis is currently doing work on blackmail and on ethics in prison health care. Contact informationCV
Professor Kipnis has been a member of the Department since 1979, having previously taught at Lake Forest College and Purdue University. He received his doctorate from Brandeis University and his M.A. from the University of Chicago where he also studied law. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and a Humanist-Resident at the Department of Pediatrics at Kapiolani Women's and Children's Hospital in Honolulu, a project funded by the Hawaii Committee for the Humanities and other local foundations. He has also been a Humanist in-Residence at the G. N. Wilcox Memorial Hospital on Kauai. Professor Kipnis was instrumental in developing a code of ethics for the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a 60,000-member professional association of pre-school educators. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL). He has published works on property rights and on legal ethics. A recent paper on the surgical treatment of intersexuality received the GIRES award for research on gender identity. Professor Kipnis is currently doing work on blackmail and on ethics in prison health care. 
