Law professor Alon Harel is visiting CBS Public-Private Platform to a talk including privatisation of prisons

In collaboration with CBS professor Henrik Lando CBS Public-Private Platform invites you to a public lecture with Alon Harel professor of law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The event takes place at Kilen the 25th of October 2012.

Harels lecture:”Dignity and Privatization: The Dignity-based Case against Outsourcing Violence” will especially focus on privatization of prisons and the use of mercenaries in wars.  Read more about the lecture in the presentation of the event below.

Alon Harel is educated at Hebrew University, Yale University and Balliol College of Oxford.  From the last mentioned he gained his Ph.D. in legal philosophy. He has been visiting professor at Colombia University, Harvard University, the University of Toronto and University of Texas at Austin.

Harel is a leading advocate of human rights in Israel and has among served on the Board of Directors of the “Association for Civil Rights in Israel”. In connection to this he has published several op-ed articles in Israeli newspapers.

Alon Harel is moreover in collaboration with Professor David Anoch founder and editor of the journal “Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies”.

At the moment he is working as law professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he holds the Phillip P. Mizock & Estelle Mizock Chair in Administrative and Criminal Law.

See the presentation of the event here

Dignity and Privatization: The Dignity-based Case against Outsourcing Violence

This lecture will discuss a non-instrumental argument against privatization of certain forms of political violence. Focus is in particular on the privatization of prisons and on the use of mercenaries in wars. This lecture maintains that some governmental decisions simply cannot be executed by private entities. While private individuals may act in conformity with the state's orders, such conformity cannot count as an execution of the order of the state and, furthermore, it cannot be attributed to the state. Harel will also argue that conformity which does not constitute an execution of the state's order is impermissible as it fails to realize the ends for the sake of which the infliction of force is justified, i.e., condemnation of the criminal behavior (in the case of punishment) and fighting for the polity’s public good (in the case of wars).

Time, place and registration

The 25th of October 2012, 2pm-4pm

Kilen, Kilevej 14A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Room Ks48

For registration email publicprivateplatform@cbs.dk.