David Luban joined the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center in 1997, coming from the University of Maryland's Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and its School of Law. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University, and taught philosophy at Yale and Kent State Universities, before moving to 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 University of Melbourne; in 1982 he was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institutes in Frankfurt and Hamburg. In addition, Luban has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and held a Guggenheim Fellowship. Other awards include the Keck Fellowship for distinguished scholarship in legal ethics, the Sanford D. Levy award of the New York State Bar Association, and Georgetown's Frank Flegal teaching award.
Luban has published numerous books and articles, most recently Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge UP, forthcoming in 2007). He writes on legal ethics, legal theory, international criminal law, just war theory, and, most recently, US torture policy.
His courses include American Legal Profession, International Criminal Law, Legal Justice, and several seminars (most recently a seminar on Just and Unjust Wars). He has also taught in the Center for Applied Legal Studies, Georgetown's political asylum clinic.
Main Biography
