Course-Based Ethics

The Ethics Certificate Program offers an opportunity for undergraduate students to test their convictions, deepen their knowledge, and explore their ambitions. It’s a rigorous course of study designed to prepare students for life – both personally and professionally.

Rethinking Regulation

Markets and Morals

Rethinking Regulation is a multi-year interdisciplinary program exploring the centrality of regulation to sustainable capitalism. Bringing humanist perspectives to bear on the study of regulatory institutions, the project reconsiders the bases of human motivation, the organizational culture of public institutions, and the role of moral judgment in governance.

Team Kenan

Ethical Leadership

Team Kenan provides students with opportunities to design and implement student-led programming and to fulfill leadership roles in the promotion of ethical inquiry at Duke.

DukeEngage Dublin

Civic and Ethical Engagement

DukeEngage Dublin is an immersive civic engagement experience in which students work in partnership with University College Dublin, the National College of Ireland, and several Irish NGOs to help understand and tackle issues of race, citizenship, and human rights in Ireland.

Doriane Lambelet ColemanGood Question Series

Should healthy minor children be used as organ donors for their ill siblings? Doriane Coleman answers this month’s question in the Good Question: An Exploration in Ethics series.

Ethical Crisis and Institutional Change

Ethical Crisis and Institutional Change

An interdisciplinary group faculty and graduate students from across Duke are investigating ethical crisis and change while seeking how best to understand, assess and improve the ethical cultures of military, religious, business and educational institutions.

Migrants and Refugees

The Bhutanese Resettlement Project explores the effects of resettlement upon Bhutanese refugees in Nepal and Durham.

News see all

KIE Advisory Board member Jimmy Soni (T’07) named managing editor of Huffington Post

Congratulations to KIE Advisory Board member and Duke alum Jimmy Soni on being named managing editor of the Huffington Post. Forbes and the Atlantic Wire have more information on his appointment.

Barak Richman comments on Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC decision

KIE Senior Fellow and Duke Professor of Law Barak D. Richman, who submitted a “friend of the court” brief urging the Supreme Court to take a narrow view of the ministerial exception in employment discrimination cases, commented on it in this Chronicle of Higher Education article.

FT columnist reviews Ruth Grant’s latest book

Financial Times columnist Christopher Cardwell reviews senior fellow Ruth Grant’s Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives, her latest book from Princeton University Press. Read the full review (free subscription required) here.

Law, KIE announce search for joint faculty hire

Duke University Law School and the Kenan Institute for Ethics have opened a search for a joint faculty hire in the field of international human rights law, policy, and institutions. More information is available in this PDF.

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Law, KIE announce search for joint faculty hire

Duke University Law School and the Kenan Institute for Ethics have opened a search for a joint faculty hire in the field of international human rights law, policy, and institutions. More information is available in this PDF.

Apply for Project Change

Want to take part in Project Change? Click here for more information, or go directly to our online application.

Poverty in North Carolina

The Institute is launching a new project on the Moral Challenges of Poverty and Inequality. Click here for more info.

And the Winners Are….

The top prize winners of the What is Good Art? Competition were unveiled at the opening of the related exhibition on April 5. See who won.

Featured Events see all

Do Lunch with Anne Cubilie, Feb. 1

Join Team Kenan for its new lunchtime series, Do Lunch, with a discussion featuring DHRC Inaugural Resident Fellow and UN Consultant Anne Cubilié. At noon in 101 West Duke Building. RSVP required.

Identity, Satire and Responsibility: A Discussion, Feb. 6

Join Team Kenan and co-sponsor Duke Jewish Student Union for a discussion of Phillip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint . At 5pm in 101 West Duke Building.

Little Town of Bethlehem screening, Feb. 20

Join us for a free public screening of Little Town of Bethlehem (2010), the second of four films in the 2012 Ethics Film Series. At 7pm in the Griffith Theater, Bryan Center, Duke University.

One Summer in Damak on view through the spring

With little hope of returning to Bhutan or being welcomed as citizens of Nepal, the refugees depicted in this 60-plus photograph exhibit confront resettlement to third countries including the United States, with many moving to Durham and surrounding communities. On view on the first floor of the West Duke Building.