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Arthur Isak Applbaum is Professor of Ethics and Public Policy and Acting Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard. Applbaum's work on legitimate political authority, civil and official disobedience, and role morality has appeared in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, 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 papers include Legitimacy in a Bastard Kingdom and Forcing a People to Be Free. He is a member of Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and chairs the ethics advisory board of a stem cell research foundation. 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 University's Center for Human Values. |
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Professor of Ethics and Public Policy
and Acting Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard
Email: Arthur_Applbaum at harvard.edu |
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Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the Executive Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School.
From 1997 to 2001 she directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She received a first class honors degree and an MSc from Oxford University and a JD from the College of Law in London. She has recently authored three reports entitled Seeking Asylum Alone, about unaccompanied child asylum seekers. Her writings on issues of migration and asylum in Europe and the United States include a coauthored book, Women's Movement: Women Under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law , an edited volume, Asylum Law And Practice in Europe and North America ,and many articles, including Internationalist Gatekeepers? The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights and The Citizenship Deficit: On Being a Citizen Child. She is currently working on issues of child migration, smuggling and trafficking, and citizenship. |
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Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School,
Executive Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies,
and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Email: jbhabha at ksg.harvard.edu |
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Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy, is coordinator of the global research policy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). An experienced development practitioner and scholar, her areas of specialization are gender and poverty alleviation with a focus on issues of employment and livelihoods. Before joining Harvard University in 1987, she lived for 15 years in Bangladesh where she worked with BRAC, one of the world's largest NGOs, and in India where she served as field representative of Oxfam America for India and Bangladesh. She is the author of numerous books including, most recently, Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work, and Poverty ; Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture ; and Perpetual Mourning: Widowhood in Rural India . Chen received a PhD in South Asia regional studies from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Lecturer in Public Policy
Email: Martha_Chen at ksg.harvard.edu |
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Ryan Goodman is the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. After law school, he clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has worked at the U.S. Department of State, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and nongovernmental organizations in India, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United States. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. |
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Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Director, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
Email: rgoodman at law.harvard.edu |
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J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life. He is also the Secretary for Social Services and the President of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Boston. His research and writing focus on ethics and foreign policy and the role of religion in world politics and in American society. He served on the faculty of Georgetown University (1984 to 1992) and the Harvard Divinity School (1993 to 2001). His writings include: The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change; Military Intervention and National Sovereignty; Catholicism and Democracy; and Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition.
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Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life
Secretary for Social Services and the President of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Boston
Email: Bryan_Hehir at ksg.harvard.edu |
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Frances M. Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy. She is the author of Creation and Abortion; Morality, Mortality, Vol. 1: Death and Whom to Save From It ; Morality, Mortality Vol. 2: Rights, Duties, and Status ; and Intricate Ethics . Kamm also has published many articles on normative ethical theory and practical ethics. She has held ACLS, AAUW, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships and has been a Fellow of the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School, the Center for Human Values at Princeton, and the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford. She is a member of the editorial boards of Philosophy & Public Affairs , Legal Theory , Bioethics , and Utilitas and was a consultant on ethics to the World Health Organization. |
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Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy
Email: Frances_Kamm at ksg.harvard.edu |
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Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy. An historian by training, he has specialized in the excavation of issues that have contemporary policy implications. His 1986 book, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts , was awarded three scholarly prizes. His book, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000), was named the best book in U.S. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Keyssar is coauthor of Inventing America , a text integrating the history of technology and science into the mainstream of American history, as well as coeditor of a series on Comparative and International Working-Class History . In 2004/5, Keyssar chaired the Social Science Research Council's National Research Commission on Voting and Elections. Keyssar's current research interests include election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty. |
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Matthew Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy
Email: Alex_Keyssar at harvard.edu |
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Jennifer Leaning, MD, SMH, has research and policy interests relating to problems of international human rights and humanitarian law, humanitarian crises, and medical ethics in practical settings of disasters and emergencies.
For ten years, Professor Leaning was editor in chief of Medicine & Global Survival , an international quarterly that addresses issues of war, disaster, human rights, and the environment from the perspective of medicine and public health (available on the web: www.ippnw.org/MGS ). She has field experience in problems of disaster response and human rights and has written widely on these issues.
She is also an attending in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Professor Leaning serves on the board of directors of several organizations, including Physicians for Human Rights (where she was a founding board member), The Humane Society of the United States, and the Massachusetts Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross.
She is chair of the Harvard University Student Health Coordinating Board and Visiting Editor of the British Medical Journal. |
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Professor of International Health (HSPH)
Email: jleaning at hsph.harvard.edu |
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Mathias Risse is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy. He works mostly in social and political philosophy and in ethics. His primary research areas are contemporary political philosophy (in particular questions of international justice, distributive justice, and property) and decision theory (in particular, rationality and fairness in group decision making, an area sometimes called analytical social philosophy.) His articles have appeared in journals such as Ethics ; Philosophy and Public Affairs ; Nous ; the Journal of Political Philosophy ; and Social Choice and Welfare . Risse studied philosophy, mathematics, and mathematical economics at the University of Bielefeld, the University of Pittsburgh, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Princeton University. He received his BA, BS and MS in mathematics from Bielefeld, and his MA and PhD in philosophy from Princeton. Before coming to Harvard he taught in the Department of Philosophy and the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale. |
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy
Email: Mathias_Risse at ksg.harvard.edu |
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Frederick Schauer is Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,where he has served as Academic Dean and Acting Dean. Formerly Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, Schauer also teaches courses in Evidence and the First Amendment and supervises graduate students in Jurisprudence and Comparative Constitutional Law at the Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Law of Obscenity (BNA, 1976), Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (Cambridge, 1982), Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (Clarendon/Oxford, 1991), and Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (Harvard, 2003); co-editor of The Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Oxford, 1996) and The First Amendment: A Reader (West, 1992, 1995); and has written more than 200 published articles on constitutional law and theory, freedom of speech and press, legal reasoning, and the philosophy of law. Schauer's work in jurisprudence focuses on the analysis of rules and the nature of legal sources, his work on constitutional law and human rights on freedom of expression and constitutional interpretation, and he is completing a book (Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Harvard, 2008)) on the forms of legal reasoning and argument. More recently he has been writing about evidence from both legal and philosophical perspectives, and attempting to connect philosophical issues of epistemology with legal issues of evidence and proof. Schauer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been Vice-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, serves currently as Chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Law of the American Philosophical Association, and was a founding co-editor of the journal Legal Theory. He has also been the Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the Universityof Chicago, Ewald Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, Morton Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Dartmouth College, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, and Distinguished Visitor at the New York University School of Law. His work on rules, legal reasoning, constitutional theory, and freedom of speech has been the subject of a book (Linda Meyer, ed., Rules and Reasoning: Essays in Honour of Fred Schauer (Hart, 1999)) and symposia in Politeia, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the Notre Dame, Connecticut, and Quinnipiac Law Reviews. In 2007-2008 Schauer is the George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University and a Fellow of Balliol College, and upon his return to Harvard in 2008 he will become Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. A graduate of Dartmouth College, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, and the Harvard Law School, Schauer has lectured and taught in Canada, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Great Britain, Russia, Hungary, Germany, Portugal, Ireland, Finland, Spain, Italy, Saudi Arabia, India, the Netherlands, Israel, Mexico, Argentina, and China, has advised on issues of legal and constitutional development in or for Estonia, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Belarus, South Africa, Vietnam, and the Faroe Islands, and was the recipient of a university-wide Distinguished Teacher Award from Harvard University in 2004.
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Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment
Email: Fred_Schauer at ksg.harvard.edu
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Jessica Stern, Lecturer in Public Policy, teaches courses on terrorism and counterterrorism. She is the author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, The Ultimate Terrorists, and numerous articles on terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She served on President Clintons National Security Council Staff in 1994-95. Stern was selected by Time Magazine in 2001 as one of seven thinkers whose innovative ideas will change the world. Stern advises a number of government agencies on issues related to terrorism, and has taught courses for government officials. She is a member of the Trilateral Commission. She has served on the Advisory Boards of a number of organizations, including the American Bar Association Committee on Law Enforcement and National Security; and on the editorial boards of Current History, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, among others. She was named a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a Harvard MacArthur Fellow. Stern ealier worked as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She has a bachelors degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a masters degree from MIT in technology policy, and a doctorate from Harvard University in public policy.
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Lecturer in Public Policy
Email: Jessica_Stern at ksg.harvard.edu |
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Christopher Stone is Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice and faculty chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. His work focuses on two distinct subjects: the improvement of criminal justice systems, particularly through the use of performance measurement and empirical research,and the leadership and governance of nonprofit organizations.From 1994 to 2004, he served as director of the Vera Institute of Justice , having joined the Institute in 1986 as head of its London office. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary OBE for his contributions to criminal justice reform in the United Kingdom. Stone serves as the founding chair of Altus , an alliance of nongovernmental organizations and academic centers in Russia, India, Nigeria, Chile, Brazil, and the United States that are jointly pursuing justice sector reform. In all, he has guided the start-up of eight nonprofit organizations pursuing justice from Johannesburg to Los Angeles and New York. Stone received his AB from Harvard, an MPhil. in criminology from the University of Cambridge, and his JD from the Yale Law School. He became faculty director of the university-wide Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations in January 2008.
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Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice
Faculty Chair, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
Email: Chris_Stone at harvard.edu |
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Monica Duffy Toft is an Associate Professor of Public Policy. She was a research intern at the RAND Corporation and served in the U.S. Army in southern Germany as a Russian voice interceptor. Her research interests include international relations, nationalism and ethnic conflict, civil and interstate wars, the relationship between demography and national security, and military and strategic planning. She is the author of two book manuscripts, a monograph, The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and Territory , and an edited volume, The Fog of Peace: Strategic and Military Planning Under Uncertainty . She is completing a third book on civil war termination. She holds a PhD and MA from the University of Chicago and a BA in political science and Slavic languages and literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Assistant Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
Email: mtoft at cfia.harvard.edu |
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