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Due by 11:59 pm on February 28, 2020 -- The seeks to strengthen teaching and research about pressing ethical issues; to foster sound norms of ethical reasoning and civic discussion; and to share the work of our community in the public interest. Lear n more › Upcoming Events 2020 Feb 13 Annual Kissel Lecture in Ethics with Pamela Karlan 5:00pm to 6:30pm Location: Milstein East C, Wasserstein Hall - Harvard Law School Title: "Restoring Democracy: Lessons from Offender Re-enfranchisement" Abstract: Karlan explores what the recent success of the offender re-enfranchisement movement tells us about both constitutional and popular approaches to democracy. Why has this movement... Read more about Annual Kissel Lecture in Ethics with Pamela Karlan 2020 Feb 27 Michael Sandel: A Conversation with Michael Rosen 4:30pm to 6:30pm Location: Tsai Auditorium Please join us on Thursday, February 27 for an event featuring political philosophers Michael Sandel and Michael Rosen, as part of a series in which Professor Rosen interviews other prominent philosophers. This far-ranging conversation will cover Sandel's life and work, touching on matters of... Read more about Michael Sandel: A Conversation with Michael Rosen 2020 Mar 13 Ethics in Your World with Linda McClain 3:00pm to 4:00pm Location: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Ethics in Your World" Book Series with Linda McClain, Robert B. Kent Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. McClain will discuss her book, Who's the Bigot?: Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law , with Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law. Latest News The Democratic Knowledge Project in Harvard Gazette February 5, 2020 The Harvard Gazette wrote a story about the 8th grade civics curriculum that the Democratic Knowledge Project is piloting this year! They interviewed Danielle Allen, 8th grade students in Cambridge Public Schools, and teachers working with the DKP to develop the curriculum. Click here to... Read more about The Democratic Knowledge Project in Harvard Gazette Jacob Sherkow to Serve on New National Academy of Medicine Committee February 2, 2020 Jacob Sherkow has been selected to serve on the National Academy of Medicine’s newly established Committee on Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation in health and medicine (CESTI). The committee will assess the landscape of emerging scientific advances and technologies in health and medicine and address the potential societal, ethical, legal, and workforce implications of such technologies, with the goal of developing a multi-sectoral governance framework. Professor Sherkow is Professor of Law at the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School and... Read more about Jacob Sherkow to Serve on New National Academy of Medicine Committee Attila Mráz in EU Observer February 2, 2020 Fellow-in-Residence Attila Mráz has an opinion piece in EU Observer . "In Orban's Hungary, the Law is Not for Everyone," explores how the rule of law has disappeared for two very vulnerable populations in Hungary, and why that should matter for the EU. You can read the piece here . Read more about Attila Mráz in EU Observer More For the Record For the Record’ is a feature where our Fellows-in-Residence and Graduate Fellows have a chance to present their research ideas informally, reflect on their experience at the Center, or report on Center events. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the text belong solely to the author, and not necessarily to the or other group or individual. This month's For the Record comes from Eugene P. Beard Graduate Fellow in Ethics, Elettra Bietti , SJD student at Harvard Law School and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her thesis focuses on information gatekeepers such as Facebook and Google. She is currently exploring these companies' moral and legal obligations towards individuals through a methodology drawn from political theory and public law, considering them as sites of contestation, in which new interests and forms of social organization demand for a reconfiguration of individual rights, entitlements, and obligations. Locked-in Data Production: User-Dignity and Capture in the Platform Economy Elettra Bietti “Data” can be many different things: information about a person (e.g., date of birth, name of pet, current or past location), content (e.g., this blog post), metadata or information about information (e.g., where data is stored, who stored it and how, or the number of amendments that this blog post underwent), information that might indirectly relate to a person (e.g., the number of people who visited the gym yesterday, the most on-demand body product in a neighborhood), or information that is not about people at all (e.g., the chemical composition of the ozone layer). With the advent of the Internet, of large technology platforms, and of the data economy, questions emerge as to how flows of data, or subsets of it, should be governed and constrained, particularly as they relate to persons, and how data might affect their lives and well-being. Read more Recent Tweets HarvardEthics ONE WEEK AWAY! 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