Daniel Fryer, J.D., Ph.D. (Philosophy) 

Publications

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Papers

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Fryer, Daniel “Policing the Privileged” NOMOS LXVIII __ (forthcoming). ​

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Fryer, Daniel “Justice as Repair” American Philosophical Quarterly __ (forthcoming). 

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Fryer, Daniel “What's the Point of Reparation?” 61 Tulsa Law Review __ (forthcoming, 2026).  

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Fryer, Daniel “Reforming Abolition” 124 Michigan Law Review __ (forthcoming, 2025).  

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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).

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Fryer, Daniel “Which America?: Judge Roger L. Gregory and the Tradition of African-American Political Thought” 78 Washington & Lee Law Review 1087-1101 (2021). 

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Fryer, Daniel “Race, Reform, & Progressive Prosecution” 110 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 769-802 (2020).

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Reviews

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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). 

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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).   

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Review of Michael Eric Dyson's Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America, in The Washington Post (Dec. 2021).

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Review of Randall Kennedy's Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture, in The Washington Post (Sept. 2021).

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Selected Presentations​​​

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“Policing the Privileged.” Fordham Law & Philosophy Colloquium. New York, NY: March 3, 2025. 

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Comments on Tommie Shelby's The Idea of Prison Abolition. Eastern APA Author Meets Critic Session. New York, NY: January 10, 2025.

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Discussant. Disagreement and Democracy: Reparations. Stanford, CA: January 6, 2025. 

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Panel Member. New York Institute of Philosophy Project of the Philosophy of Race and Racism Panel: Philosophical Foundations of Reparations. New York, NY: December 6, 2024. 

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Panel Member. Harvard University's CRISES Reparations Conference. Cambridge, MA: December 4, 2024. 

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“Policing the Privileged.” Michigan Law Junior Faculty Forum. Ann Arbor, MI: November 15, 2024. 

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“Reforming Abolition.” NYU Crim Workshop. New York, NY: November 7, 2024. 

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Keynote Presentation. First Annual Roundtable on Philosophy and the Black Experience at Emory University. Atlanta, GA: October 24, 2024. 

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“What's the Point of Reparation?” Yale Law & Philosophy. New Haven, CT: October 22, 2024. 

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“Reforming Abolition.” Michigan State Law School. Lansing, MI: September 11, 2024. 

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“What's the Point of Reparation?” Criminal Law Theory Workshop. St. Louis, MO: September 6, 2024. 

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“Reforming Abolition.” John Mercer Langston Writing Workshop. Chicago, IL: June 28, 2024. 

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Talk on Reparations. Stateville Correctional Center. Crest Hill, IL: May 15, 2024. 

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Comments on Alec Walen's Punishment, Penalty, and Incapacitation (book manuscript). Villanova, PA: May 10, 2024.  

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“Reforming Abolition.” Columbia Law Roundtable. New York, NY: May 3, 2024. 

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“Reforming Abolition.” Rutgers Law School. Newark, NJ: February 28, 2024. ​

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Comments on Jennifer Lackey's Criminal Testimonial Injustice. Central APA Author Meets Critic Session. New Orleans, LA: February 21, 2024. 

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“What's the Point of Reparation?” University Center for Human Values. Princeton, NJ: Septemeber 18, 2023.

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“Idealizing Abolition.” Northwestern Workshop on Criminal Law Theory. Chicago, IL: November 4, 2022. 

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Presentation on Racial Justice. Dartmouth. Hanover, NH: October 3, 2022. 

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Roundtable on Policing. University of Virginia Law School.  Charlottesville, VA: September 8-9, 2022.

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Comments on Neil Roberts's “Policing's Unfreedom.” American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (NOMOS). Cambridge, MA: September 30, 2022. 

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Roundtable on Policing. University of Virginia Law School.  Charlottesville, VA: September 8-9, 2022.

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“Law, Ethics, and Black Political Thought.” Dartmouth Ethics Institute. Hanover, NH: April 22, 2022. 

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“What's the Point of Reparation?” Harvard's Law and Philosophy Workshop. Cambridge, MA: April 6, 2022.

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“The Problems with Prosecutorial Leniency.” William & Mary's Symposium on Mass Incarceration. Williamsburg, VA: March 4, 2022 (zoom). 

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“The Idea(l) of Abolition.” IHS's Workshop on Policing and Political Philosophy. Washington, DC: October 17, 2021 (zoom).

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“Race, Reform, and Progressive Prosecution.” Northwestern Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology Symposium. Chicago, IL: February 27, 2020.

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“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. 

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“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.

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“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.