Leif Wenar

Leif Wenar is Chair of Ethics, and Director of the Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, in the School of Law. After earning his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Stanford, he went to Harvard to study with John Rawls. He wrote his Harvard qualifying thesis on Marx’s theory of history, and his Ph.D. dissertation on property rights with Robert Nozick and T.M. Scanlon. He has been a Visiting Professor and a Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, a Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at The Murphy Institute of Political Economy, and a Fellow of the Program on Justice and the World Economy at The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.
Many articles of Leif Wenar were published in Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Mind, Analysis, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Columbia Law Review and The Philosopher's Annual.

Leif Wenar will talk about the 'resource curse' in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Because of the exploitation of coltan in this country, the human rights-situation is deteriorating. So-called 'conflict coltan' is converted in mobile phones and laptops, but the exploitation of coltan leads to different violations of human rights.

Lecture: Clean Trade in Natural Resources

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