The Kenan Institute for Ethics is pleased to announce the recipients of the Institute’s grants in public ethics. A request for proposals was issued in the spring to Duke faculty. “We received a number of excellent proposals, and are happy to announce that three projects were selected for funding. We are very excited to be working with these faculty members on their projects in public ethics in the coming year,” said Education and Outreach Associate Lou Brown.

The projects and their faculty directors are listed below.

Kim Krawiec, Katherine Everett Professor of Law:
“Kidneys Without Contracts: The Legal and Ethical Implications of NEAD Chain Bridge Donor Contracts”

Ebrahim Moosa, Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies:
“Rhetoric of Resistance and an Ethics of Accommodation? Globalization and the Evolving Deobandi Nomos.”

Barak Richman, Professor of Law and Business Administration:
“Religious Authority, Religious Organization, and Legal Secularism: Understanding the Intersection of Mutual Obligation and Reciprocal Freedoms”

The Institute invited proposals from faculty undertaking study of an issue of significant ethical importance. As part of our commitment to scholarship that bridges theory and practice, the Institute launched this initiative to encourage faculty to bring their research interests into engagement with one or more local, national or global communities of practice (legislators, regulators, journalists, NGOs, etc). Projects demonstrated substantial ethical content AND an orientation toward some form of public scholarship, policy or practice.

Grantees will be provided office space at the Kenan Institute for Ethics and will be invited to participate in Institute activities.

Proposals were evaluated on the following criteria:
• Clarity of the ethical focus of the research
• Potential of the research to inform public understanding, shape public policy or inform institutional practice of the issues under study
• Willingness and demonstrated ability of the researchers to engage with different disciplinary and ethical approaches to their topic

If you have any questions, contact Education and Outreach Associate Lou Brown at 660-3042 or margaret.brown2@duke.edu.