Existential risk doesn’t just threaten humanity’s current potential, but all of its potential for the rest of time. Join Prof. John Bliss to learn what legal tools can mitigate existential risk in this presentation discussing his paper Existential Advocacy with Effective Altruism x Law.
About the speaker: John Bliss is an assistant professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and affiliate faculty at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. He holds a JD and a PhD from UC Berkeley. His research empirically examines the relationship between lawyers’ public interest values and their professional identities. This inquiry has included sociological studies of law students and lawyers in the US and China, historical research on the early civil rights movement, and curricular efforts to support students pursuing public interest law careers.
McGill EA x Law Presents: Existential Advocacy with Prof. John Bliss
Existential risk doesn’t just threaten humanity’s current potential, but all of its potential for the rest of time. Join Prof. John Bliss to learn what legal tools can mitigate existential risk in this presentation discussing his paper Existential Advocacy with Effective Altruism x Law.
About the speaker: John Bliss is an assistant professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and affiliate faculty at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. He holds a JD and a PhD from UC Berkeley. His research empirically examines the relationship between lawyers’ public interest values and their professional identities. This inquiry has included sociological studies of law students and lawyers in the US and China, historical research on the early civil rights movement, and curricular efforts to support students pursuing public interest law careers.