Luke William Hunt

Luke William Hunt is Associate Professor in the University of Alabama’s Department of Philosophy, where he teaches in the Department's Jurisprudence Specialization and serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk for a federal judge in Virginia. He then worked as an FBI Special Agent in Virginia and Washington, D.C., followed by his doctoral work in philosophy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Retrieval of Liberalism in Policing (Oxford University Press, 2019); The Police Identity Crisis — Hero, Warrior, Guardian, Algorithm (Routledge, 2021); and Police Deception and Dishonesty – The Logic of Lying (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama
  • 2005–2012
    FBI Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • 2004–2005
    Federal Law Clerk, U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia

Education

  • 2016 
    University of Virginia , Ph.D. (Philosophy)
  • 2004 
    University of Tennessee College of Law, J.D. (Law)

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