Leif Wenar
(Carnegie Council Fellow, 2004-2005)

Leif Wenar is Chair of Ethics, and Director of the Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, School of Law, King's College London.

Previously, Wenar was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. In 2004–2005 he was the Fellow of the program Justice and the World Economy at the Carnegie Council.

His work has appeared in Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Mind, Analysis, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Columbia Law Review, and Philosopher’s Annual. He received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford and his doctorate from Harvard.

Resources by this Author:

• A Clean Hands Trust for the People of Sudan (Part 4)
• Stopping the Flow of Stolen Resources (Part 3)
• Might Makes the Right to Sell? (Part 2)
• Property Rights and the Resource Curse (Part 1)
• Accountability in International Development Aid [Full Text]
• Accountability in International Development Aid
• One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Peter Singer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)

• "Responsibility and Severe Poverty" in Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right  (UNESCO and Oxford University Press, 2007).
  "What We Owe to Distant Others" Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol.2, no. 3 (2003): 283-304.
• "Epistemic Rights and Legal Rights" ANALYSIS, vol. 63 no. 2 (2003): 142-46.

Resource Highlights

Council President Joel Rosenthal's course of six lectures gives an overview of the field. > More > All For Educators and Students

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"One Bed, Different Dreams: The Beijing Olympics as Seen in Tokyo," by James Farrer. > More

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