Martha C. Nussbaum at UCDavis as Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence
School of Law Welcomes Professor Martha C. Nussbaum
This week the School of Law was honored to host Martha C. Nussbaum, one of the most accomplished and influential American philosophers of our time, as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence.
Professor Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in the Law School and the Philosophy Department. In addition, she is an Associate in the Classics Department, the Divinity School, the Political Science Department, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a Board Member of the Human Rights Program.
Professor Nussbaum has written groundbreaking work in areas as diverse as women and human development, religious pluralism is India, cosmopolitanism and nationalism, why democracy needs the humanities, and political emotions, including the role of disgust, love, and anger in law and politics. She has written 21 books, including more recently Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice (2013) and Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice (2016).
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