THE JOHN DEWEY LECTURE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
PROTECTING CIVILIANS: MORAL CHALLENGES OF ASYMMETRIC WARFARE
> MOSHE HALBERTAL GRUSS PROFESSOR, NYU LAW SCHOOL; PROFESSOR OF JEWISH THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHY, HEBREW UNIVERSITY; PROFESSOR OF LAW, IDC TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2015; 4:00 P.M. LOCKHART HALL (ROOM 25) The John Dewey Lecture in the ONE CLE CREDIT HAS BEEN REQUESTED Philosophy of Law is named in honor of John Dewey, American philosopher, educator, and scholar. A proponent of legal realism, Dewey’s MOSHE HALBERTAL philosophy of pragmatism related is the Gruss Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, the John and his conception of a moral life to Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University and a Professor a variety of contemporary social, of Law at IDC. He received his PhD from Hebrew University in 1989, and from 1988 to 1992 he economic, and political issues. was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Halbertal served as a visiting professor Dewey lived from 1859 to 1952 and spent one year as a professor of at Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Yale Law School. He is the philosophy at the University of Min- author of Idolatry (co-authored with Avishai Margalit, 1992); People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and nesota. The John Dewey lecture is Authority (1997) both published by Harvard University Press; Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism funded by a grant from the John in Jewish Tradition and Its Philosophical Implications (2007); On Sacrifice (2012); Maimonides: Life and Dewey Foundation and is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Thought(2013) all published by Princeton University Press; and several books published in Hebrew, Law School to provide a forum for including Interpretative Revolutions in the Making (1997) and By Way of Truth: Nahmanides and the significant scholarly contributions to Creation of Tradition (2000). In 2010, Halbertal was named a member of Israel’s Academy for the the development of jurisprudence. Sciences and the Humanities. Nonprofit Org. THE JOHN DEWEY LECTURE IN THE University of Minnesota Law School U.S. Postage 229 19th Avenue South PAID PHILOSOPHY OF LAW Minneapolis, MN 55455-0444 Twin Cities, MN Permit No. 90155 www.law.umn.edu
MOSHE HALBERTAL GRUSS PROFESSOR, NYU LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR OF JEWISH THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHY, HEBREW UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF LAW, IDC
PROTECTING CIVILIANS: MORAL CHALLENGES OF ASYMMETRIC WARFARE Contemporary warfare is often conducted among dense civilian populations, sometimes within a space in which combatants attempt to blend into their civilian environment. The lecture will address the normative scope of the obligation to protect civilians who are thrust into such a perilous situation.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015; 4:00 p.m. Lockhart Hall (Room 25) One CLE credit has been requested RSVP at z.umn.edu/deweylecture2015
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