Ruth Chang

Ruth Chang is an American philosopher and legal scholar who serves as the Professor and Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford,

At the beginning of her graduate work at Oxford in 1991, she was appointed a junior research fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, during which she also held visiting appointments at the UCLA philosophy department and the University of Chicago Law School as well as lectureships at Magdalen College and Worcester College, Oxford. She received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford in 1997. Prior to joining Oxford as the professor of jurisprudence in 2019, she was a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University in the United States.

Chang was a Nicolas Berggruen Fellow at the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.