The Program in Ethics and the Professions has selected its Fellows in Ethics for the 1997-98 academic year. Six scholars who study ethical problems in business, government, law, medicine, and religion were chosen from a group of applicants from colleges, universities, and professional institutions throughout the United States and 12 other countries.

The Fellows will be in residence at Harvard, beginning in September, to conduct research on issues related to ethics within their respective fields and to participate in a seminar on ethical issues that arise in public and professional life. They will also participate in a wide range of activities throughout the University, including faculty seminars, curricular development, collaborative research, study groups, casewriting workshops, and clinical programs. The new fellows are as follows:

Peter De Marneffe is assistant professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, where he teaches courses in moral, political, and legal philosophy. He received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard. He has written articles on rights and liberty which have appeared in Philosophy & Public Affairs, Ethics, and other scholarly journals. During his fellowship year, he will work on a book, tentatively titled Liberty Reconsidered, which will argue that taking rights to liberty seriously does not commit one to liberal policies on drugs, prostitution, and pornography.

Lisa Lehman is an internal medicine physician and graduate student in philosophy. She was a College Scholar at Cornell University, where she studied philosophy, chemistry, and Near Eastern studies. After receiving her B.A. she spent two years studying Talmudic texts and Jewish thought. She received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she also completed her training in internal medicine. She is currently working on her Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy. During her fellowship year, she will explore the ethical issues raised by new genetic information and technology.

Sebastiano Maffettone is professor of political philosophy at the University of Palermo, Italy, and coordinator of a postgraduate program in ethics and social philosophy at the University of Suor Orsola in Napoli. He received an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Maffettone is editor of the journal Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, and introduced the work of John Rawls and other American political philosophers to Italy (he also edited A Theory of Justice in Italian). He is the author of 10 books and many scientific articles on topics in political philosophy and applied ethics, including Valori comuni, Le ragioni degli altri, I fondamenti del liberalismo (with Ronald Dworkin). He was the coordinator of an Ethical Code for Confindustria, the agency representing the major Italian firms and factories.

Richard B. Miller is a Finkelstein Fellow and professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. He teaches courses in ethical theory, the history of Christian ethics, and social and political philosophy. He received a B.A. in religious studies from the University of Virginia, a master's degree in theology from the Catholic University of America, and a Ph.D. in social ethics from the University of Chicago. He has published Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition (1991) and Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning (1996), along with numerous articles on casuistry, war and peace issues, medical ethics, and the teaching of religion. During his fellowship year, he will research the moral culture of pediatric care.

Herlinde Pauer-Studer is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna. She received an M.A. in philosophy at the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Salzburg. Her research areas are mainly ethics and political philosophy. Her book, Das Andere der Gerechtigkeit. Moraltheorie im Kontext der Geschlechterdifferenz, was published in 1996. During her fellowship year, she will examine the connections between conceptions of equality and theories of the good.

Richard Pildes is professor of law at University of Michigan Law School. He received his A.B. in physical chemistry from Princeton University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He clerked for Judge Abner J. Mikva at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and for Justice Thurgood Marshall at the U.S. Supreme Court before practicing law at Foley, Hoag, and Eliot in Boston. He was a visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago and the University of Texas. He has written on legal subjects such as voting rights, regulatory policy, and constitutional law, as well as on more theoretically oriented subjects such as rational-choice theory, social capital theory, and the theory of constitutional rights. During the fellowship year, he will explore the relationship between general questions of democratic theory and more specific applications in areas such as the design of democratic institutions and the regulation of electoral politics.

The Fellows in Ethics are selected by a University committee with representatives from each of the related Harvard professional schools and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Mark Moore (Kennedy School of Government), Martha Minow (Law School), Tim Scanlon (Philosophy), Lynn Peterson (Medical School), Michael Sandel (Government Department), Joseph Badaracco (Business School), and Dennis Thompson, director, Program in Ethics and the Professions and committee chair. Senior Fellows from each of the professional schools and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences provide counsel to the Fellows in Ethics.

The Program in Ethics and the Professions, currently celebrating its 10th anniversary, is one of five Interfaculty Initiatives under the auspices of the Provost's Office. The Program encourages teaching and research about ethical issues in public and professional life and aims to help meet the growing need for teachers and scholars who address questions of moral choice in schools of business, education, government, law, and medicine.

The Fellows join a growing community of teachers and scholars dedicated to the study of ethics. In addition to the senior Fellowships in Ethics, the Program's Graduate Fellowships support graduate students teaching and writing in the field of practical ethics. The Program also sponsors a public lecture series on applied and professional ethics.

The efforts of the Program are extended by many of the activities of the professional Schools, including the Program on the Legal Profession (Law School), the Charles Francis Adams Distinguished Fellows (Business School), the Fellowships in Medical Ethics (Division of Medical Ethics at the Medical School), the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (School of Public Health), and the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life (Divinity School).