Liav Orgad Book Talk & Signing - "Ethics in Your World" Book Series

Date: 

Friday, April 1, 2016, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA 02138

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and Harvard Book Store are pleased to welcome Liav Orgad, Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, for a discussion of his book, The Cultural Defense of Nations. Read a review of the book.

This is the second event in a new speaker series, co-presented with the Harvard Book Store, featuring leading thinkers taking on tough problems that matter to us all.

Liav Orgad is an Assistant Professor of Law at Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC), a Marie Curie Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, and a Fellow-in-Residence at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He specializes in comparative constitutional law, comparative immigration law, constitutional identity, and citizenship theory. Dr Orgad has been a Fulbright Scholar at NYU Law School, a Jean-Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, a Visiting Professor at FGV Direito Rio, and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, Columbia School of Law, and Universität Luzern. He is the recipient of Dan David Prize for Young Scholars of Exceptional Promise (2013), Russell Sage Presidential Authority Award (2012), Eric Stein Prize for Best Scholarly Article by the American Society for Comparative Law (2011), and the Wolf Prize for Outstanding Achievements of Young Scholars (2010).

This event is free; no tickets are required. The book will be for sale at the event.