Leif Wenar

Leif Wenar is chair of ethics at King's College London, and this year is a visiting professor at Stanford and Princeton. He started cleantrade.org.

Wenar was a Carnegie Council Justice and the World Economy Fellow from 2004–2005.

His work has appeared in Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Mind, Analysis, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Columbia Law Review, and The Philosopher's Annual.

Selected Publications:

• "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.

Related Multimedia

• Leif Wenar on Natural Resources and Clean Trade Policies
• Public Ethics Radio: Leif Wenar on the Resource Curse

Other Related Resources

• Clean Trade in Natural Resources [Abstract]
• The Resource Curse: A Clean Hands Trust for the People of Sudan (Part 4)
• The Resource Curse: Stopping the Flow of Stolen Resources (Part 3)
• The Resource Curse: Might Makes the Right to Sell? (Part 2)
• The Resource Curse: 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) and "World Poverty and Human Rights," Thomas Pogge (Cambridge: Polity, 2002)

Link: http://wenar.info/

Last Updated: Jun 03, 2011