Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World
Leif Wenar
- Powerful explanations of how our everyday shopping puts money into the pockets of many of the most merciless men on earth
- Discovers how today’s natural resource trade runs on the same rule that once made the slave trade, colonialism, apartheid and genocide legal
- Describes the way the West can lead the world the next step forward in history through a peaceful resource revolution
Leif Wenar holds the Chair of Philosophy and Law at King’s College London. He earned his degrees in Philosophy from Stanford and from Harvard, where he worked with John Rawls and with Robert Nozick. He has been a Visiting Professor at Princeton and at Stanford, and has been a Fellow of the Carnegie Council Program in Justice and the World Economy.
Register online at: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/19703
Thu, Jan 28, 2016
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
B115 – The Observatory Building
315 Bloor Street West