Johann Frick is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, specializing in normative ethics, bioethics, and political philosophy. His current research focuses on the ethics of risk-imposition and the alienability of rights ex ante. He has been a teaching fellow for courses in political philosophy, contemporary ethical theory, bioethics, and the ethics of war. Before coming to Harvard, he read for the BPhil in Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford, and was a pensionnaire _tranger at the