Faculty
Director Lawrence Lessig is the director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, he was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school's Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
For much of his career, Professor Lessig focused his work on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. His current work addresses "institutional corruption" relationships which are legal, even currently ethical, but which weaken public trust in an institution.
He has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries. He is the author of Remix (2008), Code v2 (2007), Free Culture (2004),The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He is on the board of Creative Commons, MAPLight, Brave New Film Foundation, Change Congress, The American Academy, Berlin, Freedom House and iCommons.org, and the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation. He has served on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, Free Press, and Public Knowledge. He was a columnist for Wired, Red Herring, and the Industry Standard.
Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.
The Faculty Committee are among the most distinguished scholars in the University. They are appointed by the Provost and represent the University's professional schools and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. They select the fellows, advise the Director on all significant matters of policy, and provide wisdom and counsel to the faculty fellows and graduate fellows of the Center.
The Faculty Associates in Ethics represent a variety of departments and schools throughout the University. They provide leadership in teaching, course development, and research. Many of these scholars were fellows of the Center who subsequently become members of the Harvard faculty.
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Arthur Applbaum
- Faculty Fellow, 1987-1988
Professor Applbaum directed the graduate fellowship program from 1990 to 2009 and was acting director of the center in 2004-2005 and 2007-2009. He developed and teaches the Kennedy School's core course in political ethics. Professor Applbaum's work on political philosophy and professional ethics has appeared in Philosophy & Public Affairs, Harvard Law Review, Ethics, and Legal Theory. He has written about the ethics of executioners and of butlers, and has consulted to the government about the ethics of spies. He is the author of Ethics for Adversaries: The Morality of Roles in Political and Professional Life (Princeton University Press, 1999). Applbaum holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and an M.P.P. and Ph.D. from Harvard. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Jerusalem and a Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values.
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Joseph Badaracco
- Senior Scholar, 1989-1990
Professor Badaracco is a member of the Harvard Business School's General Management Area and has taught courses on strategy, general management, business-government relations, and business ethics in the School's MBA and executive programs. He is a graduate of St. Louis University, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and Harvard Business School, where he earned an MBA and a DBA. He is course head for the required first-year General Management course, and teaches second-year electives on business ethics. Professor Badaracco has taught in executive programs in the United States, Japan, and several other countries. He is the author of Loading the Dice, which compares business-government relations in five countries;The Knowledge Link, which Fortune magazine selected as one of the outstanding management books of 1991, and is co-author of Leadership and the Quest for Integrity. His more recent books include Business Ethics: Roles and Responsibilities; Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right, and Questions of Character. His books have been translated into ten languages. His newest research asks what can be learned about business ethics by focusing on entrepreneurs rather than CEO's.
Professor Badaracco was a Senior Scholar in Ethics in 1989-90, and was the first tenured faculty member in ethics at the Business School. His efforts to integrate ethics teaching into the curriculum contributed in no small way to the establishment, in 2004, of the first required, full-length ethics course in the School's history. "Leadership and Corporate Accountability" focuses on the complex responsibilities facing business leaders today.
Archon Fung
- Senior Scholar, 2006-2007
- Faculty Associate, 2007-2009
Professor Fung's research focuses on the impacts of civic participation, public deliberation, and transparency upon public and private governance. His Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2004), examines two participatory-democratic reform efforts in low-income Chicago neighborhoods. Current projects examine those same initiatives in electoral reform, urban planning and governance, public services, ecosystem management, and international labor standards. His most recent book is Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press, with Mary Graham and David Weil). Professor Fung is the author of five books, three edited collections, and over fifty articles appearing in journals including Political Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics and Society, Governance, Journal of Policy and Management, Environmental Management, American Behavioral Scientist, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Boston Review. He received two SB degrees and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Fung was a Senior Scholar in Ethics in 2006-2007, and became a Faculty Associate of the Ethics Center at the end of that year.
Nancy Rosenblum
- Senior Scholar, 2003-2004
Nancy Rosenblum was appointed Chair of the Department of Government in 2004, having joined the department as a professor in January 2001. Her fields of study are the history of modern political thought, contemporary political theory, and constitutional law. Professor Rosenblum is the author of several books, including On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America, which was awarded the 2002 David Easton Award (ASPA). She is a member of the American Political Science Association Taskforce on Religion and Politics, and has contributed a chapter to their volume Religious Pluralism and the Logic of Congruence. Her memberships at Harvard include the Committee on Appointments and Promotions and the University Committee on Human Rights. Professor Rosenblum is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Rosenblum was a Senior Scholar in Ethics in 2003-2004, and became a member of the Faculty Committee in 2005.
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Thomas Scanlon
Professor Scanlon taught philosophy at Princeton University before coming to Harvard in 1984. He is the advisory editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs and was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Brasenose College. He has written on freedom of expression, the nature of rights, conceptions of welfare, and theories of justice, and foundational questions in moral theory, and has published in the Journal of Symbolic Logic; Nomos; Ethics; and Philosophy and Public Affairs. His teaching in the department of philosophy has included courses on theories of justice, equality, and recent ethical theory. He is the co-editor of, among others, War and Moral Responsibility; The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion; and Medicine and Moral Philosophy. His more recent publications include Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame; The Difficulty of Tolerance; and What We Owe To Each Other.
Professor Scanlon is a charter member of the Faculty Committee and has served since the Center's founding in 1987.
Robert Truog
- Faculty Fellow, 1990-1991
- Senior Scholar, 2001-2002
Dr. Robert Truog is Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesiology & Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Truog received his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and is board certified in the practices of pediatrics, anesthesiology, and pediatric critical care medicine. He also holds a Master's Degree in Philosophy from Brown University and an honorary Master's of Arts from Harvard University.
Dr. Truog has practiced pediatric intensive care medicine at Boston Children's Hospital for more than 20 years, and served as Chief of the Division for ten years. Currently, as Director of Clinical Ethics at Harvard Medical School he has a leadership role in teaching ethics across the undergraduate curriculum. As Executive Director of the Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice, he creates and teaches highly interactive seminars to enhance the relational and communication skills of clinicians across a variety of topics, including breaking bad news, discussing organ donation with families, and disclosure of adverse events and medical error. As Chair of Harvard's Embryonic Stem Cell Oversight Committee (ESCRO), he is engaged in the interesting and difficult challenges of defining the ethical parameters of stem cell research.
Dr. Truog has published more than 200 articles in bioethics and related disciplines, and his writings on the subject of brain death have been translated into several languages. He recently authored national guidelines for providing end-of-life care in the Intensive Care Unit. He is Principal Investigator on an R0-1 grant from the NIH to improve end-of-life care in pediatric intensive care units.
He lectures widely nationally and internationally, and has testified before the President's Council on Bioethics and the German Parliament. Dr. Truog is an active member of numerous committees and advisory boards, and has received several awards over the years, including The Christopher Grenvik Memorial Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine for his contributions and leadership in the area of ethics.
Dr. Truog was a Faculty Fellow in Ethics in 1990-1991 and a Senior Scholar in Ethics from 2001-2003. He was appointed to the Faculty Committee in 2002.
David Wilkins
- Faculty Fellow, 1989-1990
David Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Faculty Director of the Center on Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry, and Director of the Program on the Legal Profession. He is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has published over 50 articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press, and has co-authored (with Law School colleague Andrew Kaufman) one of the leading casebooks in the field. his more recent publications include: The Black Bar: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the Future of Race and the American Legal Profession (Oxford University Press); Partner, Shmartner! EEOC v. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1264 (2007); Valuing Diversity: Some Cautionary Lessons from the American Experience, in Managing the Modern Law Firm (Laura Empson, ed. 2007); Bridging the Diversity Gap: Five Lessons from the American Experience, 2007; Diversity League Tables: Ethnicity and Gender in the Legal Professions (Black Solicitors Network 2007); and Urban Law Graduates in Large Law Firms, Southwestern Law Review (2007).
Professor Wilkins' current scholarly projects on the profession include the After the JD study and the Center's Corporate Purchasing Project. His other research projects include empirical research on the development of "ethical infrastructure" in large law firms for a book on the development of the black corporate bar, to be published by Oxford University Press. He teaches several courses on lawyers and other related professionals, including the country's only four credit course on the Legal Profession. He also teaches a seminar on The Future(s) of the Large Law Firm, and an introductory lecture for all first year students on the legal profession and careers. He is an instructor at the Center's Executive Education courses, and participate in curricular reform, including the creation of a new course for first-year students entitled Problem Solving. Professor Wilkins is a frequent speaker at academic conferences, law firms, other professional service providers, and bar organizations, both within the United States and around the world. He is a member of Harvard University's Task Force on Professional Schools.
Professor Wilkins was a Faculty Fellow in Ethics in 1989-1990, and became a Faculty Associate of the Ethics Center at the end of that year.
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