Complicity and Lesser Evils: A Tale of Two Lawyers
Complicity and Lesser Evils: A Tale of Two Lawyers
When a party or regime comes into power who does terrible things, how do conscientious government employees respond? Do they stay at their job, or do they leave? David Luban, university professor of law and philosophy at Georgetown University, will discuss this question by considering the case of two lawyers in Nazi Germany in a lecture entitled, "Complicity and Lesser Evils: A Tale of Two Lawyers." A reception to follow.
The Department of Philosophy expresses its appreciation for the generous support provided by the W. Ernest and Eleanor C. Schlaretzki Pedagogy Fund, which makes this biennial lecture and other pedagogical activities possible.
About the Speaker
David Luban is a professor of law and philosophy at Georgetown University. Since 2013, he has served as Class of 1984 Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. His research interests center on moral and legal responsibility in organizational settings, including law firms, government and the military. In addition to legal ethics, he writes on international criminal law, national security and just war theory. His current project is a book on the moral and legal philosophy of Hannah Arendt.
Luban is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and has received prizes for distinguished scholarship from the American Bar Foundation and the New York State Bar Association. In 2011, he was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University.