David J. Luban (Georgetown Law Center)
"Human Dignity, Humiliation, and Torture"

David J. Luban is University Professor at Georgetown University, where he has been teaching in the Law Center since 1997.  He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University.  Prior to his appointment at Georgetown University, he taught at Yale University, Kent State University, and the University of Maryland.  He has held visiting appointments in law at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools, and visiting appointments in philosophy at Dartmouth College and the Univeristy of Melbourne.  Professor Luban has also been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institutes in Frankfurt and Hamburg, a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.  His published books include Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study (Princeton University Press, 1988).  Professor Luban has published numerous articles on a wide variety of topics, including legal ethics, legal theory, international criminal law, just war theory, and, most recently, U.S. torture policy.

Commentators: to be announced

This lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception.  Attorneys may obtain CLE credits (2 non-transitional ethics credits) for attending this event.  The cost for CLE credit is $65 (or $55 for Fordham Law Alumni & public interest attorneys).
In order to register for CLE credit, please send any e-mail note to cle@law.fordham.edu, or visit the following web-site and browse to the program for February 12, 2009:
http://law.fordham.edu/cle.htm

A reception will immediately follow the lecture and discussion.