Name Sterling Harwood | ||
Law Offices Sterling Harwood & Associates
Sterling Voss Harwood (born in 1958 in Washington, D.C.) is an American professor, lecturer, author, radio host, and attorney based in San Jose, California. His law practice primarily concerns immigration, family law, real estate law, personal injury cases, criminal law, and debtor/creditor/bankruptcy law.
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Education
Harwood received his M.A. (1986) and Ph.D. (1992) degrees in philosophy from Cornell University and while there received his J.D. in law from Cornell Law School in 1983. In 1980, he graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he earned his B.A. with general honors and highest honors in philosophy and was elected Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year there (1979).
Teaching career
Since 1982, Harwood has taught at Cornell Law School (1989), Cornell University (1982–1989), Lincoln Law School of San Jose (2007 to 2014), Evergreen Valley College (2001 to date), San Jose City College (1995 to date), San Jose State University (1989–1996 & 2008), Illinois State University (1988), University of Phoenix (1998–2004), Foothill College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (1989), Chabot College, Gavilan College, and at other colleges and universities.
Radio program
Harwood hosts a radio program on station KLIV 1590 AM in San Jose, California called Spirit To Spirit that explores conspiracy theories, true crime, unsolved mysteries and the paranormal. Notable guests have included: James Fetzer, Seth Shostak, and Brian William Hall, the organizer of Conspiracy Con.
Opinions
Harwood has authored numerous publications including his book Judicial Activism: A Restrained Defense. He criticizes utilitarianism in his essay "Eleven Objections to Utilitarianism." In the article "Against MacIntyre's Relativistic Communitarianism" Harwood criticizes the communitarianism of Alasdair MacIntyre. Harwood defends conditional knowledge against skepticism in his essay "Taking Skepticism Seriously—and in Context." He defends an inheritance tax in his article "Is Inheritance Immoral?" He defends moral realism and criticizes moral relativism in his essay "Taking Ethics Seriously—Moral Relativism versus Moral Realism." He criticizes Marxism in his article "Madisonian Democracy and Marxist Analysis." In his essay "Conceptually Necessary Links between Law and Morality," Harwood uses the minimum content of natural law developed by the famous advocate of legal positivism H.L.A. Hart to defend a version of natural law. Harwood criticizes the legal doctrine of stare decisis in his article "Weaken Stare Decisis: On Burton's Judging in Good Faith." Harwood defends the compatibility of mercy and justice in his essay "Is Mercy Inherently Unjust?" He defends affirmative action in his article "The Justice of Affirmative Action."