Monday, April 11, 2011

Marian University - Global Policy Presentations

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"Ethics, Interpretation, and the Torture Memos"
7 p.m.
Peter Brooks  has written in the Chronicle Review about the ethics of the legal interpretation used to justify the so-called "torture memos" written by John Yoo." He is Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar in the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton. Among his other teaching, he has been directing  a three-year seminar, open to students and faculty, on "The Ethics of Reading and the Cultures of Professionalism." He was also a Sterling Professor of comparative literature and French at Yale University, where he began teaching in 1965. Brooks was the founding director of Yale's Whitney Humanities Center (1981-91), and served again as director from 1996-2001. He also chaired the Departments of Comparative Literature and French. From 2003 to 2006, Brooks was a professor in English and law at the University of Virginia, where he founded the Program in Law and Humanities. He is also the author of several books. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, London Review of Books, and elsewhere. He has served as a member of the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association, the Stanford Humanities Center Advisory Board, and the Humanities Advisory Council of the New York Public Library. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Texas, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Bologna, the Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard University and as Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. Brooks received his bachelor of arts, and doctorate in comparative literature degrees from Harvard University and studied at the University of London as a Marshall Scholar. His current interests include law and literature, realism in literature, and painting, the study of character and identity. Dr. Brooks has written in the Chronicle Review about the ethics of the legal interpretation used to justify the so-called "torture memos" written by John Yoo.
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