Arthur Applbaum

Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values
Professor of Ethics and Public Policy
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Office Address
Rubenstein-217
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 10
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-8058
Fax: 617-495-4297
Email: arthur_applbaum@Harvard.Edu
Arthur Applbaum

Profile

Arthur Isak Applbaum is Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values. Applbaums work on legitimate political authority, civil and official disobedience, and role morality has appeared in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association, Harvard Law Review, Ethics, and Legal Theory. He is the author of Ethics for Adversaries, a book about the morality of roles in public and professional life. Applbaum has written about the ethics of executioners and of butlers, and he has consulted to the government about the ethics of spies. Recent articles include Legitimacy Without the Duty to Obey and Forcing a People to Be Free. He has been a member of Harvards Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and chairs the ethics advisory board of a stem cell research foundation. From 2007 to 2009, he was Acting Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard. Applbaum holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Jerusalem, a Fellow in Ethics at Harvard, and a Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton Universitys Center for Human Values.

Courses

Fall

  • DPI-230 Legitimacy and Resistance

Not Offered

  • DPI-220 Political Philosophy for Public Policy

Spring

  • DPI-201-C The Responsibilities of Public Action

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
    • Applbaum, Arthur Isak. "All Foundings Are Forced." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-042, September 2012.