Drones, Morality and International Law

Speaker

Professor David Luban (Georgetown University)

About the Speaker

David Luban is University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University.  He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of Chicago. In 2012-13 he is co-director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. Luban has also directed Georgetown’s Center on National Security and Law.

Luban’s books include Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study(Princeton University Press, 1988), Legal Modernism (University of Michigan Press, 1994), Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and the forthcoming Torture, Power, and Law (Cambridge University Press), as well several edited anthologies on legal ethics and textbooks on international criminal law and on legal ethics.  His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish, most recently a book-length Spanish translation of A Theory of Crimes Against Humanity. His writing includes more than 150 articles on international criminal law, moral and legal philosophy, professional ethics, law and literature, just war theory, and issues surrounding the U.S. “war on terrorism.” He has testified before both houses of the U.S. Congress on the torture debate.

Luban has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and received the American Bar Foundation’s Keck Award and the New York Bar Association’s Levy Award, both for distinguished scholarship. In 2011 he was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University.

Luban joined the Georgetown faculty from the University of Maryland. He has been a visiting professor of law at the Fordham, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools, and a visiting professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College and the University of Melbourne. A frequent speaker in the United States, he has lectured in fifteen other countries.

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