David Fagelson

Associate Professor
Department of Justice, Law and Society

• Professor Fagelson's research interests include global ethics, constitutional rights, law and development, political theory and human rights. He has published a book and numerous articles in journals of law and politics concerning the meaning and moral basis of law and is now at work on a book about the ethics of foreign assistance. Before coming to American, he practiced law and acted as a foreign legal advisor to government officials, lawyers and journalists from Russia to Cambodia. He worked mainly on issues of corruption and the creation of legal institutions in the post Communist transition. Courses that Professor Fagelson teaches include Global Ethics, Concept of Justice, Western Legal Tradition, American Legal Culture and Law and Human Rights.

• Degrees

  DPhil Oxford University
  JD University of Michigan Law
  MPh Oxford University
  BA Wesleyan University