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Christian Barry

Deputy Director

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Public Ethics Media

Christian Barry is Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) at the Australian National University. He also hosts Public Ethics Radio, an online audio broadcast with ethicists discussing timely and important practical dilemmas.

Christian has served as a consultant and contributing author to three of the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Reports, was editor of Ethics & International Affairs, and directed the Carnegie Council's program Justice and the World Economy. He is author (with Sanjay Reddy) of International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage (Columbia University Press, 2008). He is co-editor (with Thomas Pogge) of Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice (Blackwell, 2005), and (with Barry Herman and Lydia Tomitova) of Dealing Fairly with Developing Country Debt (Blackwell, 2007).

Christian holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University, where he was a fellow at the Center for Law and Philosophy. He is the recipient of the 2009–2010 Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship.

Focus: Debt, Development, Ethics, Finance, Governance, Jobs, Poverty, Trade, Australia, Asia, Global

Related Resources:

• Clean Tech Intellectual Property (Audio)
• Indigenous Intellectual Property (Audio)
• Ownership and the Body (Audio)
• The Arbitrary Morality of Immigration and Citizenship (Audio)
• Institutionalizing Human Rights (Audio)
• The Bioethics of Infectious Diseases (Audio)
• The G-20's Global Hit-and-Run (Commentary)
• Network Power (Audio)
• Shallow Cuts (Commentary)
• Proportionality in Gaza (Audio)
• Discretionary Time (Audio)
• Health as a Human Right (Videos)
• Network Power (Videos)
• Extending Human Lifespans (Audio)
• Does Global Egalitarianism Provide an Impractical and Unattractive Ideal of Justice? (Policy Library)
• Shaking the Resource Curse (Audio)
• Pharmaceutical Innovation and Essential Medicines (Audio)
• Egalitarian Challenges to Global Egalitarianism (Policy Library)
• A Framework and Principles for a Fairer Trading System (Audio)
• The False Dilemma of the Sweatshop (Policy Library)
• Labor Standards and International Trade: A Proposal (Policy Library)
• International Trade: What Does Justice Demand? (Audio)
• Dealing Justly with Debt (Policy Library)

Selected Publications:

Responding to Global Poverty, with Gerhard Øverland (Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2009)

Ethics & International Affairs: A Reader, co-edited with Joel Rosenthal (Georgetown University Press, 2009).

Associative Duties, Global Justice and the Colonies, with Lea Ypi and Robert Goodin (Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2009)

Egalitarian Critics of Global Egalitarianism: A Critique (with Laura Valentini, Review of International Studies, 2008)

Does Global Egalitarianism Provide an Impractical and Unattractive Ideal of Justice? (with Pablo Gilabert, International Affairs, 2008)

International Trade and Standards: A Proposal for Linkage (with Sanjay Reddy, Columbia University Press, 2008)

Dealing Fairly with Developing Country Debt, co-edited with Barry Herman and Lydia Tomitova (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)

Is Global Institutional Reform a False Promise? (Cornell Journal of International Law, 2006)

Fairness in Sovereign Debt (with Lydia Tomitova, Social Research, 2006)

Global Institutions & Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice, co-edited with Thomas Pogge (Blackwell, 2005).

Understanding and Evaluating the Contribution Principle (in Real World Justice, Kluwer, 2005).

Applying the Contribution Principle (in Global Responsibilities, Routledge, 2005).

Redistribution (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2004).

Global Justice: Aims, Arrangements, and Responsibilities (Can Institutions Have Duties? Palgrave, 2003).

Access to Medicines and the Rhetoric of Responsibility (with Kate Raworth, Ethics & International Affairs, 2002).

Education and Standards of Living (Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Education, 2003).

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Last Updated: Jan 13, 2010