Rate My Professor Gary Chartier

Gary Chartier is Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics in the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University, roles he assumed in 2009 and 2016, respectively. He has been at La Sierra since 1999, initially as a lecturer, advancing to assistant professor (2001–2008), associate professor with tenure (2008–2012), and full professor (2012–2016). Chartier holds faculty appointments in the Program in Philosophical Studies (since 2001), H.M.S. Richards Divinity School (since 2007), and Program in University Studies (since 2003). His earlier academic positions include lecturer in law at Brunel University Brunel Law School (2005), adjunct faculty in the School of Religion at Loma Linda University (1996–1998, 2010), and Department of Philosophy at California Baptist University (1996–1997). Chartier earned a BA magna cum laude from La Sierra University in 1987, a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1991, a JD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001 (Order of the Coif), and an LLD honoris causa from Cambridge in 2015 in recognition of his original contributions to legal philosophy.

Chartier's research specializations encompass legal philosophy, political philosophy, moral philosophy, natural law theory, anarchism, business ethics, and theological ethics. He is the author, co-author, or editor of numerous scholarly works, including Christianity and the Nation-State: A Study in Political Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Loving Creation: The Task of the Moral Life (Fortress, 2022), Flourishing Lives: Exploring Natural Law Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and Economic Justice and Natural Law (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Edited volumes feature Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought (Routledge, 2020) and Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition (Palgrave, 2018). Over 40 peer-reviewed articles appear in outlets such as Law and Philosophy, Griffith Law Review, and Oregon Review of International Law. Awards include La Sierra University's Distinguished Service Award (2024), Distinguished Scholarship Award (2010), the Judge Jerry Pacht Memorial Award in Constitutional Law (UCLA, 2001), and Cambridge's Burney Fund (1990–1991). Chartier chairs the Promotion and Tenure Committee and has served on the Graduate Council and other administrative bodies.