CURRICULUM VITAE
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EMPLOYMENT
The University of Michigan
Assistant Professor of Law (2021-present)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy; 2021-present)
Research Scholar (2020-2021)
Princeton University
Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow (2023-2024)
The United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
Judicial Law Clerk for the Hon. Roger L. Gregory (2019-2020)
Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office
Assistant District Attorney (2018-2019)
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Philosophy
Dissertation: "Repairing Reparative Justice"
Advisors: Anita L. Allen & Samuel Freeman
University of Michigan Law School
J.D., with Honors
University College London
M.A., with Distinction, Philosophy
Thesis: "On Being Tolerant"
Advisor: Michael Otsuka
John Jay College (CUNY)
B.S., with Honors, Criminal Justice
SCHOLARSHIP
Publications
Articles
Fryer, Daniel “Policing the Privileged” NOMOS LXVIII __ (forthcoming).
Fryer, Daniel “What's the Point of Reparation?” 61 Tulsa Law Review 335-359 (2026).
Fryer, Daniel “Justice as Repair” 63 American Philosophical Quarterly 143-155 (2026).
Fryer, Daniel “Reforming Abolition” 124 Michigan Law Review 187-236 (2025).
Fryer, Daniel “Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle?” In Philosophizing the Americas: An Inter-American Discourse, edited by Jacoby A. Carter and Hernando Arturo Estevez. Fordham University Press (2024).
Fryer, Daniel “Idealizing Abolition” 17 Criminal Law and Philosophy 553-572 (2023).
Fryer, Daniel “Which America?: Judge Roger L. Gregory and the Tradition of African-American Political Thought” 78 Washington & Lee Law Review 1087-1101 (2021).
Fryer, Daniel “Race, Reform, & Progressive Prosecution” 110 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 769-802 (2020).
Book Reviews
Review of Abby Phillip's A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power, in The Washington Post (Oct. 2025).
Review of Brandon Hogan, Michael Cholbi, Alex Madva, and Benjamin S. Yost's The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, 134 Ethics 290-295 (2024).
Review of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran's Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter From the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race, in The Washington Post (April 2022).
Review of Michael Eric Dyson's Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America, in The Washington Post (Dec. 2021).
Review of Randall Kennedy's Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture, in The Washington Post (Sept. 2021).
Other
Introduction to Special Issue: “Contemporary Issues in Black Philosophy: Pluralism in Methodological Approaches” 63 American Philosophical Quarterly 111-117 (2026) (with Miron J. Clay-Gilmore, Ian Peebles, Lauren Richardson, Michael R. Taylor Jr., Alexander Williams Tolbert, Danny Underwood II, Yosef Washington, Jada Wiggleton-Little, and Ashia Wilson).
Presentations
“Justice as Repair.” Vrije Universiteit Normative Philosophy Workshop. Amsterdam, Netherlands: July 22, 2025.
“Reforming Abolition.” Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Cambridge, MA: June 3, 2025.
“Policing the Privileged.” Fordham Law & Philosophy Colloquium. New York, NY: March 3, 2025.
Comments on Tommie Shelby's The Idea of Prison Abolition. Eastern APA Author Meets Critic Session. New York, NY: January 10, 2025.
Discussant. Disagreement and Democracy: Reparations. Stanford, CA: January 6, 2025.
Panel Member. New York Institute of Philosophy Project on the Philosophy of Race and Racism Panel: Philosophical Foundations of Reparations. New York, NY: December 6, 2024.
Panel Member. Harvard University's CRISES Reparations Conference. Cambridge, MA: December 4, 2024.
“Policing the Privileged.” Michigan Law Junior Faculty Forum. Ann Arbor, MI: November 15, 2024.
“Reforming Abolition.” NYU Crim Workshop. New York, NY: November 7, 2024.
Keynote Presentation. First Annual Roundtable on Philosophy and the Black Experience at Emory University. Atlanta, GA: October 24, 2024.
“What's the Point of Reparation?” Yale Law & Philosophy. New Haven, CT: October 22, 2024.
“Reforming Abolition.” Michigan State Law School. Lansing, MI: September 11, 2024.
“What's the Point of Reparation?” Criminal Law Theory Workshop. St. Louis, MO: September 6, 2024.
“Reforming Abolition.” John Mercer Langston Writing Workshop. Chicago, IL: June 28, 2024.
Talk on Reparations. Stateville Correctional Center. Crest Hill, IL: May 15, 2024.
Comments on Alec Walen's Punishment, Penalty, and Incapacitation (book manuscript). Villanova, PA: May 10, 2024.
“Reforming Abolition.” Columbia Law Roundtable. New York, NY: May 3, 2024.
“Reforming Abolition.” Rutgers Law School. Newark, NJ: February 28, 2024.
Comments on Jennifer Lackey's Criminal Testimonial Injustice. Central APA Author Meets Critic Session. New Orleans, LA: February 21, 2024.
“What's the Point of Reparation?” University Center for Human Values. Princeton, NJ: Septemeber 18, 2023.
“Idealizing Abolition.” Northwestern Workshop on Criminal Law Theory. Chicago, IL: November 4, 2022.
Presentation on Racial Justice. Dartmouth. Hanover, NH: October 3, 2022.
Roundtable on Policing. University of Virginia Law School. Charlottesville, VA: September 8-9, 2022.
Comments on Neil Roberts's “Policing's Unfreedom.” American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (NOMOS). Cambridge, MA: September 30, 2022.
Roundtable on Policing. University of Virginia Law School. Charlottesville, VA: September 8-9, 2022.
“Law, Ethics, and Black Political Thought.” Dartmouth Ethics Institute. Hanover, NH: April 22, 2022.
“What's the Point of Reparation?” Harvard's Law and Philosophy Workshop. Cambridge, MA: April 6, 2022.
“The Problems with Prosecutorial Leniency.” William & Mary's Symposium on Mass Incarceration. Williamsburg, VA: March 4, 2022 (zoom).
“The Idea(l) of Abolition.” IHS's Workshop on Policing and Political Philosophy. Washington, DC: October 17, 2021 (zoom).
“Race, Reform, and Progressive Prosecution.” Northwestern Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology Symposium. Chicago, IL: February 27, 2020.
“Poverty and Criminal Prosecutions.” UPenn’s Integrated Studies Program. Philadelphia, PA: March 14, 2019.
Roundtable Discussion: “In the Archives: Black Radical Thought.” Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Ann Arbor, MI: February 9, 2018.
“Phantom Trials.” Michigan’s Race, Law, and History Proseminar. Ann Arbor, MI: April 5, 2017.
“On William Fontaine’s Political Philosophy” Department of Philosophy, Morgan State University. Baltimore,
MD: November 8, 2016.
“William Fontaine and the American Race Problem.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
Grand Rapids, MI: March 5-7, 2015.
"Margaret Cavendish on Religious Toleration." Women in the History of Philosophy Workshop. University of
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA: September 13, 2014.
"A (Grad Student's) Perspective on the Importance of Role Models and Faculty Diversity." Minorities and
Philosophy (MAP) Workshop. Philadelphia, PA: March 7, 2014.
“Supermax, Punishment, and the African-American Community.” Society for the Study of Africana
Philosophy. New York, NY: November 17, 2013.
“Was Alain Locke a ‘wishy-washy’ Cosmopolitan?” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
Galloway Township, NJ: March 9, 2013.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2024 - Councilor, Washtenaw County Advisory Council on Reparations, Washtenaw County, MI
2017 - 2018 Law Clerk, Goodman & Hurtwitz, PC, Detroit, MI
2016 Summer Law Clerk, Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), Montgomery, AL
2015 - 2016 Volunteer, Civil Rights Litigation Clearing House, Ann Arbor, MI
2013 - 2015 Analyst & Researcher, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Philadelphia, PA
HONORS & AWARDS
2026 Inaugural Summer Retreat Fellow, Dartmouth Ethics Institute
2026 Selected for Boston College Law School's Junior Faculty Forum
2025 Selected for Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum
2023 - 2024 Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, Princeton University
2020 - 2021 Research Scholar, University of Michigan Law School
2016 - 2017 Race, Law, and History Fellowship, University of Michigan
2016 Haywood Burns Memorial Fellowship for Social and Economic Justice, National Lawyers Guild
2012 - 2015 William Fontaine Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2012 - 2015 Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
OTHER SERVICE & LEADERSHIP
2024 - Washtenaw County Advisory Council on Reparations, Councilor
2022 - Michigan's Program in Race, Law, and History, Faculty Affiliate; Co-Director (2022-23)
2021 - Women Also Know Law, Advisory Board Member
2021 - Michigan Journal of Law & Society, Faculty Editorial Board Member
2020 - Color of Change Hollywood, Consultant
2020 - 2021 High School Ethics Bowl Judge (New York Regional)
2020 - 2021 High School Ethics Bowl Coach, Carver H.S. (Philadelphia)
2014 - 2019 Head Graduate Fellow, Upenn Center for Africana Studies Summer Institute
BAR ADMISSION
Pennsylvania
US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit