Seth Mayer
Associate Chicago
I received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, with general and departmental honors, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University, and a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. I handle consumer and privacy-related class actions.
Favorite Game
NY Times Spelling Bee
Favorite Sport
Basketball
Perfect Vacation
Hiking by a beach
Site I Frequent
NY Times
Curriculum Vitae
SETH MAYER is an Associate at Edelson PC where his work focuses on consumer protection and privacy class actions.
Prior to joining Edelson PC, Seth clerked for the Honorable Judith E. Levy of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Seth graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an articles editor for the Michigan Law Review. As a student attorney in Michigan Law’s Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, Seth worked on Williams v. City of Detroit, a case that resulted in a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring policy changes in the Detroit Police Department’s use of facial recognition technology.
Before law school, Seth was a philosophy professor, with research focused on democratic theory and human rights.
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Manchester University, Indiana (2016–2020)
- Instructor of Philosophy, Auburn University (2014–2016)
- Republicanism, democratic participation, and unelected authority, Philosophy and Public Issues (2015)
- Confronting Political Disagreement about Sentencing: A Deliberative Democratic Framework, New Criminal Law Review (2017)
- Resolving the dilemma of democratic informal politics, Social Theory and Practice (2017)
- Beyond the numbers: toward a moral vision for criminal justice reform, Drake L. Rev. Discourse (2015)
- Interpreting the Situation of Political Disagreement: Rancière and Habermas, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy (2019)
- From Civic Virtue to the Informal Sphere: Reorienting Democratic Theories of Solidarity, Solidarity in Open Societies (2019)
- Mass Deliberative Democracy and Criminal Justice Reform: Beyond Democratic Communitarian Localism, Philosophy in the Contemporary World (2021)
- Human Rights Solidarity Moral or Political?, Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights: Implications for Theory and Practice (2017)
- of the American Criminal Justice System, Politics, Polarity, and Peace (2023)
- Democracy, the Carceral State, and the Carceral Ethos: toward a Discourse Democratic Critique of the American Criminal Justice System, Value Inquiry Book Series (2023)
- Public Client Contingency Fee Contracts as Obligation, Mich L. Rev. (2022)
- Mass Deliberative Democracy and Criminal Justice Reform (2021)
- Recovering the Concept of “Forms of Life” for Social Philosophy and Critical Theory, Social Philosophy Today (2020)
- Climate change and environmental regulation, 2020
- Equality, Democracy, and Transitional Justice, Social Philosophy Today (2019)
- From Civic Virtue to the Informal Sphere, Solidarity in Open Societies (2019)
- Democratic Ethos: A Theory of Informal Politics, Northwestern University (2015)
- Illinois
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit