Amartya Sen on Jeremy Bentham and Natural Rights June 13, 2011

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen critiques the views of Jeremy Bentham, influential English philosopher and legal theorist, on the concept of natural rights.

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The American Society of International Law Presents: Harmony and Dissonance in International Law. Co-sponsored by American University Washington College of Law.

International law, and the world in which it operates, are increasingly both harmonious and dissonant. The Society's Annual Meeting in 2011 will focus on the evolution of international law in the context of this paradox.

Amartya Sen is a Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was formerly Honorary President of OXFAM and is now its Honorary Advisor.

Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory.