Douglas Husak: The Persistence of Drug Prohibition

Douglas Husak gave this lecture at the Murphy Institute's Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University on January 31, 2014.
Douglas Husak is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is interested in the connections between moral philosophy and the substantive criminal law--especially decisions about criminalization and the moral limits of the criminal sanction.
A prolific writer, Professor Husak has published six books, numerous book chapters, and over fifty scholarly articles. Three of his books focus on drug policy, while two recent books, The Philosophy of Criminal Law: Selected Essays and Over criminalization: The Limits of Criminal Law focus on philosophical problems in the criminal law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Criminal Law and Philosophy.