Rethinking Regulation
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. Read more on Duke Today.
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Staal, Love win Moral Purpose Award
What role does a liberal arts education play in creating a full life? Duke freshman Sophia Staal and UNC-Chapel Hill senior Darius Love provide answers in their Kenan Moral Purpose Award-winning essays, given to the best student papers on the topic from the two schools. Staal recounted the conversion that happened after she became a Division I varsity athlete, while Love reflected on how he learned to embrace difference during his four years in Chapel Hill.
Integrity report reaches across Duke
Integrity in Undergraduate Life at Duke University: A Report on the 2011 Survey follows up on surveys conducted in 1995, 2000 and 2005 and includes new questions on nonacademic subjects. Duke Student Government held its first ever faculty-student town hall meeting on April 4th to discuss its findings, covered by the Duke Chronicle. The Duke Chronicle also ran an article and editorial on the report, and Duke Today ran a piece on the report. The full report may be found here.
Ruth Grant discusses Strings Attached on WUNC’s The State of Things
KIE senior fellow Ruth Grant discussed how incentives affect good behavior and whether rewarding someone for being good devalues acts of goodness, the topic of her latest book, Strings Attached: The Ethics of Incentives, on WUNC’s The State of Things on 3/28. Listen or download audio here.
New report on the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights released
Why do the world’s most revered companies end up embroiled in human rights abuses? What is to be done? “The U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Analysis and Implementation,” summarizes the current state of play in the field and contributes to the agenda going forward. The full report is available here.
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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
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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.
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Artifice: What Is Good Art? on view through May 13
Stop by the West Duke Building to see Artifice, Team Kenan’s third annual What Is Good Art? Exhibition, and pick up a brochure with the artists’ statements.
