Might Makes Right: Power, Legitimacy, and the Rules that Govern the World

Speaker

Leif Wenar

Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

Leif Wenar is one of today's leading political philosophers whose work explores justice, human rights, democracy, and the ethics of natural resources. He is the author of Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World, a widely discussed book on how the global trade in natural resources can fuel corruption and conflict.