David Luban

Georgetown University Law Center

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1.

Preventive War

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Nov 2003
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Fairness to Rightness: Jurisdiction, Legality, and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law

Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 1154117
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Jul 2008
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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international criminal law, tribunals, jurisdiction

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Calling Genocide by its Rightful Name: Lemkin's Word, Darfur, and the Un Report

Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 7, No. 1, Summer 2006, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 903009
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 May 2006
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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genocide, Darfur, international criminal law, crimes against humanity

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Unthinking the Ticking Bomb

Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 1154202
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Jul 2008
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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torture, ethics, moral choice

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Carl Schmitt and the Critique of Lawfare

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 43, Nos. 1 & 2, Pp. 457, 2010, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-33
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 30 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2019
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985, humanitarian law, military law

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Philosophical Legal Ethics: An Affectionate History

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 30, 2017, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-12
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2017
David Luban and W. Bradley Wendel
Georgetown University Law Center and Cornell University - School of Law
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Legal ethics, professional ethics, role morality, moral agency, liberalism, pluralism

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Fiduciary Legal Ethics, Zeal, and Moral Activism

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2020
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Jun 2020
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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legal ethics, fiduciary, jurisprudence

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Was the Gaza Campaign Legal?

ABA National Security Law Report, Vol. 31, pp. 1-6, February 2009, U of Utah Legal Studies Paper No. 057-09-01
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2010
Amos N. Guiora and David Luban
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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Israel, self-defense, international law, Hamas, Operation Cast Lead, proportionality, counterterrorism, nation state, terrorism, suicide bombing infrastructure, non-state actor

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The Rule of Law and Human Dignity: Reexamining Fuller’s Canons

The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-29
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 May 2010
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Rule of Law, Practice of Law, Dignity

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Human Rights Pragmatism and Human Dignity

in PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, (Massimo Renzo, Rowan Cruft, & Matthew Liao, eds., Oxford University Press Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2015
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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international human rights, human dignity, human rights pragmatism

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Hannah Arendt as a Theorist of International Criminal Law

International Criminal Law Review, 2011, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-30
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Mar 2011
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975, criminal law, international law

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Mental Torture: A Critique of Erasures in U.S. Law

Georgetown Law Journal, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-31
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 30 Mar 2011
David Luban and Henry Shue
Georgetown University Law Center and University of Oxford
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criminal law, torture, international law

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The Conscience of a Prosecutor

Valparaiso University Law Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-27
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 May 2010 Last Revised: 26 May 2010
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Legal Ethics, Criminal Law, Prosecution

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Risk Taking and Force Protection

READING WALZER, Itzhak Benbaji, Naomi Sussman, eds., Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-72
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 30 May 2011
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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International law, military law, national security, criminal law, collateral damage

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Lawfare and Legal Ethics in Guantánamo

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 60, pp. 1981-2026, 2008, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 1092451
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2010
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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military law, national security, legal ethics, legal profession

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Value Pluralism and Rational Choice

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Mar 2001
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Human Rights Thinking and the Laws of War

Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflicts and Human Rights, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Apr 2015
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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laws of war, international human rights, human rights thinking, human conflict, sovereignty

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Review of Daniel Markovits, 'A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age'

Ethics, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-28
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 May 2010
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Legal Ethics, Lawyers, Practice of Law

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Hannah Arendt Meets QAnon: Conspiracy, Ideology, and the Collapse of Common Sense

(2021). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2384.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 May 2021 Last Revised: 26 May 2021
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Arendt, conspiracy theories, virtue epistemology, common sense

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War as Punishment

Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-71
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 May 2011
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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International law, military law, criminal law, national security

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International Law and Theories of Global Justice

Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, vol. 114, 2020, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 Nov 2020
Steven Ratner, David Luban, Carmen Pavel, Jiewuh Song and James Graham Stewart
University of Michigan Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, King's College London, Seoul National University and University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law
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international law, global justice, political philosophy, international political morality

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Complicity and Lesser Evils: A Tale of Two Lawyers

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 34, Issue 3, Pp. 613.
2021. Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2368.
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2021
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Legal Ethics, Legal Philosophy, Legal Theory, Legal History, Legal Biography, Law and Literature

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Arendt on the Crime of Crimes

Ratio Juris, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Apr 2015
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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genocide, Jerusalem court, Eichmann trial, Jews, Holocaust, crimes against humanity

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On the Commander-in-Chief Power

Southern California Law Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 1026302
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 01 Nov 2007
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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separation of powers, commander-in-chief, military law

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Torture and the Professions

Criminal Justice Ethics, No. 2, pp. 58-65, Summer/Fall 2007
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Jul 2008
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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national security, professional ethics, torture, terror

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How Must a Lawyer Be? A Response to Woolley and Wendel

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-26
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 May 2010
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Legal Ethics, Lawyers, Practice of Law

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Military Lawyers and the Two Cultures Problem

Leiden Journal of International Law, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-057
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 May 2012 Last Revised: 09 May 2012
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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military lawyers, legal profession, international humanitarian law, laws of war, laws of armed conflict, military necessity

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Opting Out of the Law of War: Comments on 'Withdrawing from International Custom'

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 120, p. 151, 2010, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-12
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2011
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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War, International Law, War and Emergency Powers

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Misplaced Fidelity

Texas Law Review, Vol. 90, 2012, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-058
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 May 2012
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, W. Bradley Wendel, Morality, Law and Philosophy, Legal Theory, Legal Profession

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Prefaces and Postscripts: Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars at Age 40

(2017). Georgetown Law Faculty Lectures and Appearances. 16
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2018
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Unsatisfying Wars: Degrees of Risk and the Jus Ex Bello

Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Aug 2014
Gabriella Blum and David Luban
Harvard Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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War on Terrorism, September 11, terrorist, military risks, just war theory, law of war

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Knowing When Not to Fight

David Luban, Knowing When Not to Fight, OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE ETHICS OF WAR (Helen Frowe & Seth Lazar, ed.) (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Jan 2016
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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selective conscientious objection, civilian control of the military, jus ad bellum, choice under uncertainty, manifest illegality

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Self-Representation, Access to Justice, and the Quality of Counsel: A Comment on Rabeea Assy's Injustice in Person: The Right of Self-Representation

Georgetown University Law Center, Scholarship @ Georgetown Law, 2017, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1, 1 June 2018, Pages 46–63
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 26 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2018
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Personality Disruption as Mental Torture: The CIA, Interrogational Abuse, and the U.S. Torture Act

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 108, No. 2, 2019
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 31 Jan 2020
David Luban and Katherine S. Newell
Georgetown University Law Center and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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torture, national security, interrogation

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Time-Mindedness and Jurisprudence

Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Apr 2015
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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analytic jurisprudence, unsociability, analytic philosophy, synechism, contemporary Anglophone jurisprudence

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R2H and the Prospects For Peace: An Essay on Sovereign Responsibilities

Forthcoming in Archiv für Rechts-Und Sozialphilosophie, Special Edition
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Nov 2018
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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international law, human rights, legal theory, legal philosophy, national security

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Group Rights, Group Intentions, and the Value of Groups

Journal of Genocide Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Mar 2018
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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Humanitarianism as a Weapons System

Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2018
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 23 Jul 2018
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
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The Publicity of Law and the Regulatory State

Posted: 08 Jan 2003
David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center

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