David Luban is a professor of law and philosophy at the Georgtown University in USA. Between 2012 and 2013 he was one of the directors of the Center for Transnational Justice and Law Studies in London. He also managed the Center for National Security at his University. His research focuses on moral and legal responsibility in the organizational environment like a firm, government and the army. Apart from law ethics he writes on theories of just war, national security and international criminal law.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In his works the following stands out: Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study (Princeton University Press, 1988), Legal Modernism (University of Michigan Press, 1994), and Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Torture, Power, and Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
