Martha Nussbaum, a former Brown professor and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, ... “If the human list (of capabilities) is a template ...

World-renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, will deliver the 2017 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 1 at the John F.

Martha Nussbaum: The first of them I ... living in a just society when the society makes it possible for them to have a minimal threshold level of 10 central capabilities that I then made a list of.

Martha C. Nussbaum: The issue of animal justice is incredibly urgent, and the normative theories that are currently directing practical efforts and legal are inadequate. My Capabilities Approach ...

Seit ihrem 1988 erschienenen Aufsatz Nature, Function, and Capability: Aristotle on Political Distribution bezeichnet Nussbaum ihren Ansatz in verschiedenen Publikationen, öfters auch im Titel, als ...

Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum will donate a portion of her 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy to the University of Chicago Law School and the Department of Philosophy to create a financial award ...

Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author, most recently, of Creating Capabilities: The Human ...

Nussbaum now wants to extend that theory to protect animal rights, which was the focus of her Tuesday lecture: “Creatures and Capabilities: A New Approach to Animal Ethics and Law.” She argued that ...