About Our Speaker
David Luban is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University Law
Center. A philosopher by training, his research interests include legal and military ethics,
international criminal law, human rights and the rule of law in backsliding democracies.
His books include Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study, Legal Modernism, Legal
Ethics and Human Dignity and the award-winning Torture, Power and Law. His most
recent book is Powers of Judgment: Hannah Arendt’s Moral and Legal Philosophy
(Cambridge University Press, 2026).
Luban is co-author of the textbooks Legal Ethics
(9 th edition) and International and Transnational Criminal Law (4 th edition). From 2013 to
2025, he held the Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the Stockdale Center for Ethical
Leadership, United States Naval Academy. He is a member of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the National Institute for Military Justice,
a Guggenheim fellow and recipient of the 2022 M.C. Bassiouni Justice Award for
contributions to the study of core international crimes. Luban is founding editor of Just
Security.