Michael Baur

Prof. Michael Baur

Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Michael Baur is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School in Manhattan, where he teaches a course each fall on natural law.  Prof. Baur was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he grew up with five siblings (two brother and three sisters).  After graduating from Loyola Marymount University in L.A. in 1985, he moved from Los Angeles to Toronto, Canada, in order to pursue graduate studies in philosophy (which he completed in 1991).  Prof. Baur then taught philosophy for four years (1991-1995) at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he fell in love with Christine O'Connell, who later became his wife.  From 1995 to 1998, Prof. Baur lived in Cambridge, Mass., where he attended Harvard Law School and earned a J.D. degree.  Prof. Baur began teaching at Fordham University in September of 1998.



  • B.A., Loyola Marymount University
  • M.A., University of Toronto
  • Ph.D. University of Toronto
  • J.D. Harvard University.

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