Former fellow Tim Lytton (1994) just published a new book, Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety (University of Chicago Press 2019). The book examines the interplay between government regulation, private governance, and civil liability in food safety regulation. It offers general lessons about how complex regulatory systems work, with application to areas...

Vida Mia Garcia and Anne Newman, two of our National Ethics Project (NEP) research partners at Stanford, have just published an article of some of their findings on the state of undergraduate ethics education. They're worried about the results, which show that Stanford undergraduates feel enormous pressure to "make an impact," and have a poor understanding of ethics overall. You can read the full article here:...

Samuel Moyn, former Berggruen Fellow, was recently named the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School.

Moyn's work focuses on international law, human rights, the law of war, and legal thought, in both historical and current perspective. He also serves as a professor of history, researching a diverse range of subjects in intellectual history, especially 20th-century European moral and political theory.

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