Rules for Wrongdoers

A Lecture by Professor Arthur Ripstein

Date and time

March 14th, 2019 • Lecture from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. • A reception will follow the lecture.

Location

The lecture will take place in Hauser Hall, Room 102. The reception following the lecture will take place in the Caspersen Room in the HLS Library.

In his lecture, Professor Arthur Ripstein of the University of Toronto will argue that the very thing that makes war wrongful — the fact that which side prevails does not depend on who is in the right — also provides the moral standard for evaluating the conduct of war, both the grounds for going to war and the ways in which wars are fought. A reception will follow.

Image credit: HLS Nuremberg Trials Project, SC 215210-S, http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu. Nazi defendants in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials stare intently at a chart of the party organization introduced in the third day of the trial. Hermann Goering, left, listens to testimony via earphones. Nov. 22, 1945.