Dr. David Rodin

David RodinSenior Research Fellow, ELAC, University of Oxford


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Biography

David Rodin is a leading authority on the ethics of war and conflict. He is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His publications include War and Self-Defense (OUP 2002), which was awarded the American Philosophical Association Sharp Prize, articles in leading philosophy and law journals and a number of edited books. A Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand, David has a B.Phil. and D.Phil in philosophy from Oxford University. He was previously Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He was the inaugural Director of Research at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and a founding member of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War. David has a busy teaching and consulting schedule and is a regular lecturer at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College where he provides ethics training for senior officers up to the rank of two-star General. He has also worked in the private sector as a Senior Associate with the Boston Consulting Group.


Research Interests: War and international conflict; Terrorism and Asymmetric War; Torture; Business Ethics and International Justice.


Consultancy and advisory work: NATO, UNESCO, ICRC, the European Science Foundation, the British Military and MOD, Norwegian State Pension Fund, Oxford Analytica.


Teaching: Regular lecturer at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College where he provides ethics training for senior officers.

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Selected Publications

'Justifying Harm' (2011) Symposium on Jeff McMahan’s Killing in War, Ethics, Vol. 112, No. 1

‘Morality and Law in War’, (2011) in Sibylle Scheipers and Hew Strachan (eds): The Changing Character of War, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

‘Academic Boycotts’, (2010) The Journal of Political Philosophy (with M. Yudkin)

‘Two Emerging Issues of Jus Post Bellum: War Termination and the Liability of Soldiers for Crimes of Aggression’, (2008) in Carsten Stahn and Jann K. Kleffner (eds.): Jus Post Bellum: Towards a Law of Transition From Conflict to Peace.

'The Role of Law, Ethics and Justice in Security Practices: Conference Report', (2008) PRIO Papers, ISBN 978-82-7288-273-9 (with J. Peter Burgess)

Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers, (Rodin, David and Shue, Henry), Oxford University Press, Oxford, July 2008

War, Torture and Terrorism: Ethics and War in the 21st Century, Blackwell, September 2007

War and Self-Defense, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005.

The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions, (Rodin, David and Sorabji, Richard, Eds.), Ashgate, London, November 2005

'Terrorism Without Intention', in Ethics, Vol. 114, July 2004, 752-771.

'War and Self-Defense', Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 18, No. 1 (Winter 2004), 63-68.