Luke William Hunt

Associate Professor

Luke William Hunt joined the Alabama philosophy faculty in 2020. He teaches in the department’s jurisprudence track and serves as the department’s 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 there books: 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).