SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Drones, Morality, and International Law

No registration required. All welcome.

David Luban is University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University. In 2012-13 he is co-director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London.  

Luban’s books include Lawyers and Justice, Legal Modernism, Legal Ethics and Human Dignity, and the forthcoming Torture, Power, and Law (Cambridge University Press), as well 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 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. 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.

This event is part of CISD's International Relations Speaker Series and is co-hosted by the Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice (CCRJ) and the London Transitional Justice Network.