The Morality of Mercy
dnorris10 April 16th, 2009
Heidi Hurd, the David C. Baum Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Illinois College of Law, will present “The Morality of Mercy” at the 12th Annual Bell Distinguished Lectureship in Law on Thursday, April 9, at The College of Wooster. The free public lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Lean Lecture Room of Wishart Hall (303 E. University St.). A dessert reception will precede the event at 7 p.m.
Hurd is a scholar in the areas of criminal law, torts, political theory, and general jurisprudence. She served as the University of Illinois College of Law’s 11th Dean from 2002 through 2007 and is currently co-director of the College’s Program in Law and Philosophy and the co-editor-in-chief of Law and Philosophy (Kluwer Press). Hurd received her B.A. from Queen’s College, her M.A from Dalhousie University and her J.D., and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. She has taught law and political theory in Hungary, Germany, and Ukraine; was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Law Program of Australian National University’s Research School of Social Sciences in Canberra, Australia; and held the post of visiting professor at the University of Tel Aviv School of Law. Hurd has authored a number of articles that have appeared in the nation’s top law and philosophy journals, including Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, Chicago Law Forum, and Notre Dame Law Review. Hurd is also the author of Moral Combat (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
The Bell Distinguished Lectureship in Law was endowed in 1999 by Jennie M. Bell and Samuel H. Bell, a 1947 College of Wooster graduate and a Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The purpose is to engage students, faculty, members of the legal profession, and members of the community in a legal issue that has broad implications for society. The Bells hope, by way of this lectureship, to bring the best minds of the legal profession to Wooster students and the local community. This lectureship also joins their long-held affection for the law and faith in the values derived from a liberal arts education.
The Bell Distinguished Lectureship is sponsored by The Bell Lectureship Endowed Fund and The College of Wooster’s Pre-Law Advising Program. For additional information, call 330-263-2380.