Professor David Gray Carlson teaches commercial law and bankruptcy at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York. He was contributing editor of Hegel and Legal Theory (1991), a collection of essays based on Hegel's Philosophy of Right; and co-editor of Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (1992) and Law and the Postmodern Mind: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence (1998). Carlson received his B.A. (1974) from University of California, Santa Barbara and his J.D. (1977) from Hastings College of Law, University of California. He was editor-in-chief of Hastings Law Journal.