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Join Matthew D. Adler, Richard A. Horvitz Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy, for a celebration of his new book Risk, Death, and Well-Being: The Ethical Foundations of Fatality Risk Regulation (Oxford University Press, 2025: https://duke.is/r/y7pq). This book provides a rigorous treatment of the ethics of governmental policies that seek to reduce individuals’ fatality risks, through the lens of welfare-consequentialism, specifically, lifetime welfarism, with a focus on utilitarianism and prioritarianism. Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. Perkins Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy, moderates the conversation.
Co-sponsored by the Goodson Law Library and the Office of the Dean.
Join Matthew D. Adler, Richard A. Horvitz Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy, for a celebration of his new book Risk, Death, and Well-Being: The Ethical Foundations of Fatality Risk Regulation (Oxford University Press, 2025: https://duke.is/r/y7pq). This book provides a rigorous treatment of the ethics of governmental policies that seek to reduce individuals’ fatality risks, through the lens of welfare-consequentialism, specifically, lifetime welfarism, with a focus on utilitarianism and prioritarianism. Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. Perkins Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy, moderates the conversation.
Co-sponsored by the Goodson Law Library and the Office of the Dean.
