
Visiting Doctoral Researchers
Academic Year 2007-2008

Ms. Emily Hartz
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Ms. Emily Hartz is studying for a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the School of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Her project entitled Necessity after 9/11, A Study of Legal Conceptualisations of Necessity related to the Present 'Global War on Terrorism.' Ms. Hartz was a visiting doctoral researcher at the Hauser Global Law School Program during the fall semester 2006. Before this she studied philosophy and mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin; Freie Universtat, Berlin; Universitat der Kunste, Berlin, as well as Copenhagen University. She received her Master's degree in philosophy from Copenhagen University in Denmark in 2003. After graduating she worked for the Centre for Ethics and Law in Copenhagen and the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences in Bonn. In this capacity she has been assigned to a number of EU-sponsored research projects where she has successfully carried out research in the field of ethics and law. She is currently co-coordinator of an interdisciplinary research network in political theory: The Establishment of Power Law and Order. Ms. Hartz is a student at the University of Copenhagen, where she hopes to earn her Ph.D. through the Center of Ethics and Law. She will be working with Richard Pildes and the Center for Law and Security during her stay.