Current Fellows & Scholars
Faculty Fellows
- Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
Eric Beerbohm is Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. His philosophical and teaching interests include democratic theory, theories of distributive justice, political ethics, and the morality of public policy. His book manuscript, entitled "In Our Name: The Ethics of Democratic Government," considers the moral division of labor between citizens and lawmakers. He has written on the methodology of theories of distributive justice and the implications of moral uncertainty for political decision-making. During the fellowship year, he will investigate the conceptual priority of injustice. The project considers what properties make an institutional arrangement unjust - whether we have reason to develop theories of injustice independently from and prior to attempts to characterize a perfectly just social arrangement.
- Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
Moshe Cohen-Eliya is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Law & Ethics of Human Rights (Berkeley Electronic Press) and a senior lecturer at the Academic Center for Law and Business, in Israel. He graduated from the Hebrew University, magna cum laude (1993); earned his LL.D. from the Hebrew University (direct track for outstanding candidates) (2001); and did his post-doctorate at Harvard Law School as a fellow with the Human Rights Program (2002-2003). Moshe worked as a lawyer for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (1994-1999) during this period he appeared before the Israeli Supreme Court in major constitutional cases. Among his publications: "The Hidden Foreign Law Debate in Heller: Proportionality Approach in American Constitutional Law," in San Diego Law Review (with Iddo Porat); "Advertisements, Stereotypes and Freedom of Expression," Journal of Social Philosophy (with Yoav Hammer); "An Argument from Democracy against School Choice: A Critique of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris," Loyola Law Review (co-authored with Yoav Hammer); "Formal and Substantive Meanings of Proportionality in the Supreme Court's Decision regarding the Security Fence," Israel Law Review; "Discrimination against Arabs in Israel in Public Accommodations," NYU Journal of International Law and Politics; his recent article "American Balancing and German Proportionality: The Historical Origins" (with Iddo Porat) was selected to be presented in the inaugural meeting of the Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum (October 2008). During the fellowship year, Moshe will conceptualize types of failures in the democratic process that justify judicial activism in pluralism-related controversies.
- Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
Nir Eyal is Assistant Professor in Global Health and Social Medicine (Medical Ethics) at Harvard Medical School, and a faculty member of the University Program in Ethics and Health. His work in bioethics, political philosophy and consequentialist moral theory investigates questions about informed consent, markets in organs, and the global medical brain drain crisis. He is completing a book that defends a consequentialist approach to respect for persons and applies that approach to normative questions in bioethics and political theory. He will also explore when fully free, informed, and competent consent is necessary for legitimate intervention, and when lower levels of freedom, information, and competence are sufficient.
- Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
Jonathan H. Marks is Associate Professor of Bioethics, Humanities and Law at the Pennsylvania State University. He is Director of the bioethics program at the main campus, University Park, and has a joint appointment in the College of Medicine at Hershey. He is also a barrister and founding member of Matrix Chambers, London. Jonathan was counsel for Human Rights Watch in the Pinochet case, and represented Dr. Nancy Olivieri in the European Court of Justice-a landmark case on pharmaceutical regulation. The Olivieri case vividly demonstrated the potential hazards to academic independence presented by industry-sponsored medical research and triggered Jonathan's interest in bioethics and, in particular, his interest in situational and systemic threats to ethical conduct. Jonathan received his M.A., B.C.L. (equivalent to J.D., LL.M.) from Oxford University and, from 2004-6, he was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Georgetown University Law Center. Jonathan has published widely on the legal and ethical implications of the use of health professionals, behavioral science and neuroscience in interrogation. His work on this topic has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Law and Medicine, New York Times, and the Hastings Center Report (among others). During the fellowship, he will work on a book project addressing the relationship between professional ethics and human rights in the wake of terror. Jonathan Marks has been named the Edmond J. Safra Faculty Fellow in Ethics.
- Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
Daniel Viehoff received his PhD from Columbia University in 2009. His dissertation, ‘The Claims of Disagreement', explores the role of moral disagreement in politics and offers an account of the authority of democratic institutions. His areas of specialization include political and legal philosophy, social philosophy, and normative and applied ethics. During the fellowship year, Viehoff will examine the ethics of enfranchisement: Who ought to be granted a right to vote in the making of our laws, and why?