Applied Ethics Day Lecture

David Luban, University Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, will present this year’s Applied Ethics Day Lecture. The title of his presentation is “Torture and the Legal Profession.” The lecture will take place on April 3 at 11 a.m. in the Lugar Courtroom at the WVU Law Center.

Professor Luban provided

the following brief description of his very timely talk: Torture is a crime, but government lawyers approved it in the name of national security. Did they violate legal ethics? And how should we respond?

Professor Luban is an internationally recognized philosopher and legal scholar. He has published numerous books and articles, most recently Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press). He writes on legal ethics, legal theory, international criminal law, just war theory, and, most recently, US torture policy.

Professor Luban received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University. Prior to joining the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center in 1997, he held academic positions at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and its School of Law. He also taught philosophy at Yale and Kent State universities, before moving to Maryland. He has held visiting appointments in law at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools, and visiting appointments in philosophy at Dartmouth College and the University of Melbourne.

Professor Luban has earned several awards and honors. He was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and held a Guggenheim Fellowship. Other awards include the Keck Fellowship for distinguished scholarship in legal ethics, the Sanford D. Levy award of the New York State Bar Association, and Georgetown’s Frank Flegal teaching award.

Mark Wicclair

Thanks to Dr. Wicclair for alerting us to this.

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