David Fagelson
Associate Professor at American University School of Public Affairs
Schools
- American University School of Public Affairs
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Biography
American University School of Public Affairs
Degrees
DPhil Oxford University
MPhil Oxford University
JD University of Michigan
BA Wesleyan University
Bio
Professor Fagelson''s research interests include ethical issues in law, politics and international relations as well as jurisprudence and and political theory. He has published one book on the nature of justice in an interpretive theory of law and co authored another about international legal development and the problem of corruption. Professor Fagelson has also written numerous articles in journals of law and politics adivressing issues such as the ethical obligations of lawyers to serve the poor, the constitution and national security, and the ethical foundations of sovereignty in international law. He has also published in philosophy journals on questions such as the role of tolerance in the concept of law and the moral basis of american constitutionalism. Before coming to American, he practiced law. He then became a foreign legal adviser under the auspices of USAID, The World Bank, and other international organizations, to both donors and donee government officials, lawyers and journalists from Russia to Cambodia. He worked mainly on issues of corruption and the creation of legal institutions in the post Communist transition. Courses that Professor Fagelson teaches include Concept of Justice, Law and Social Theory, American Legal Culture and Law and Human Rights.
Teaching
Spring 2018
JLC-308 Justice, Morality & the Law
JLC-410 Topics in Legal Theory: Law and Human Rights
JLC-410 Topics in Legal Theory: Concept of Justice
Fall 2018
JLC-201 Philosophical Problems in Law
JLC-308 Justice, Morality & the Law
JLC-410 Topics in Legal Theory: Legal Theory
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