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CURRENT RESEARCH

Criminal Justice Ethics

    Criminal Justice Ethics covers a range of concrete and mid-level problems encountered by police, courts, and corrections. More

Business and
Professional Ethics

    Business and Professional Ethics deals with normative issues relating to the conduct and regulation of business. More

Ethical Issues
in Biotechnology

    Ethical Issues in Biotechnology examines the use of and access to new knowledge and techniques. More

IT and Nanotechnology
Ethics of Emergent
Technology

    Information technology and Nanotechnology deals with risks and responsibilities relating to research into technologies. More

Political Violence and
State Sovereignty

    Ethical Issues of Political Violence and State Sovereignty addresses central philosophical issues of political violence, especially the ethics of war. More

Justice and the Human Good

    Justice and the Human Good focuses on the relation between applied ethics and academic moral and political philosophy as well as the justice of social institutions. More


WHAT'S NEW

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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

Michael Selgelid ABC podcast Addiction Free will & Self Control based on the recent symposium.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:

Christopher Heath Wellman on Immigration

CAPPE NEWS

WHO

CAPPE has been designated an official World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics. More

 

 

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Wednesday March 17th - Christopher Wellman: The Rights-Forfeiture Theory of Punishment More

 




Dr Christopher Wellman

Criminal Justice Ethics

Justice and the Human Good

kwellman@wustl.edu
Telephone +61 (02) 6125-8985
Facsimile +61 (02) 6125-6579
View my cv (.pdf)

BA, PhD

Biography

Christopher Wellman works in ethics, specializing in political and legal philosophy. He holds a PhD from the University of Arizona. In addition to his CAPPE appointment, he is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.

Fields of special interest

  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Legal Philosophy
  • Applied Ethics

Publications

Books

Wellman, C.H. 2005. A Theory of Secession:   The Case for Political Self-Determination, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wellman, C.H. and Simmons, J. 2005.   Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?   Cambridge:   Cambridge University Press.
Cohen, A.I. and Wellman, C.H. (eds) 2005.   Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics , Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Frey, R.G. and Wellman, C.H. (eds) 2003.   A Companion to Applied Ethics , Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.