David Luban is the Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University's Law Center and Department of Philosophy. His primary affiliation is with the Law Center, with a joint appointment in the Philosophy Department. Born in Milwaukee, he was educated at the University of Chicago and Yale, from which he received the Ph.D. in philosophy in 1974. After teaching at Yale for one year and Kent State University for four, he joined the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland in 1979 to conduct the Institute's project on legal ethics. At the same time he began teaching legal ethics at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he eventually became the Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law. He has held visiting appointments in the philosophy departments of Dartmouth College and the University of Melbourne, as well as the Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

In addition to legal ethics, his research interests include international criminal law and international human rights, just war theory, jurisprudence, and moral responsibility within complex organizations. He confesses to a particular fondness for the philosophy of Hannah Arendt. He is currently writing on human dignity and the law.

A complete list of publications for David Luban can be found here.