NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- FASPE and
MJH present a talk by David
Luban, one of America's leading legal ethicists,
on "The Power of Bureaucrats: From Adolf
Eichmann to the Present," in conjunction with the MJH's
exhibit, "Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of
Adolf Eichmann."
From his desk in Berlin,
Adolf Eichmann organized the mass
deportation and genocide of Jews across Europe during World War II. Luban, professor
of law and philosophy at Georgetown Law, will discuss and draw
contemporary lessons from the ways in which Eichmann's power grew
out of the bureaucratic authority established by the Third Reich to
enable him to become one of history's most infamous war
criminals.
FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of
Professional Ethics) runs five innovative fellowship programs in
business, journalism, law, medicine, and religion that challenge
graduate students and early-career professionals to confront their
ethical responsibilities by analyzing the decisions and actions of
Nazi-era professionals. FASPE Fellows participate in an intensive
two-week study trip to Germany and
Poland where they examine
contemporary ethical issues in their respective fields by first
studying the actions of their professional counterparts in
Europe in the period of 1933-1945.
Currently entering its eighth year of operation, FASPE has over 400
alumni and receives close to 1,000 applications for its five
programs each year.
"FASPE explores the actions of the perpetrators to highlight how
the moral codes governing the professions can break down with
devastating consequences," said Thorin
Tritter, FASPE's executive director, "Adolf Eichmann is a prime example of someone
whose willingness to break with ethical codes had a devastating
impact on the larger society."
David Luban, who serves on
FASPE's Academic Committee, is known for his work on moral and
legal responsibility in organizational settings, including law
firms, government, and the military. In addition to legal ethics,
Luban also writes on just war theory, national security, and
international criminal law. His most recent book, Torture,
Power, and Law (Cambridge
University Press, 2014), won the American Publishers
Association PROSE Award for professional and scholarly excellence
in philosophy. Luban's other books include Legal Ethics and
Human Dignity (Cambridge University
Press, 2007) Legal Modernism (University of Michigan Press, 1994), and Lawyers
and Justice: An Ethical Study (Princeton
University Press, 1988).
Currently a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Luban has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Woodrow
Wilson Center, and he has received awards for his scholarship from
the American Bar Foundation and the New
York State Bar Association. Luban is on the editorial boards
of Ethics & International Affairs and Legal
Ethics, and is a Founding Editor of the weblog Just
Security. Luban has testified before both houses of the U.S.
Congress and is a frequent speaker in the
United States and abroad.
"Operation Finale," on view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
– A Living Memorial to the Holocaust through January 14, documents the secret history
behind the capture, extradition, and trial of Adolf Eichmann, drawing attention to the
enormity of the crimes committed during the Nazi regime and calling
on the viewer to consider the meaning of justice and
accountability.
To learn more about FASPE, please visit
www.faspe-ethics.org.
Contact:
Talia Bloch
Communications Manager
646-571-2199
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