Leif Wenar holds the Chair of Philosophy and Law at the School of Law, King's College London. After earning his Bachelor's degree from Stanford he edited an autobiographical volume by the Nobel-winning economist F.A. Hayek and was Karl Popper's research assistant. He went to Harvard to study with John Rawls, and while there took classes with Amartya Sen and led discussions for Michael Sandel's course on Justice. He wrote his Harvard qualifying thesis on Karl Marx's theory of history, and his doctoral dissertation on property rights with Robert Nozick. He is the author of many articles on rights, justice and today's urgent international issues. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Princeton Department of Politics, a Visiting Professor and a Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, a Visiting Professor at the Stanford University Center on Ethics in Society, a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University School of Philosophy, a Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at The Murphy Institute of Political Economy, and a Fellow of the Program on Justice and the World Economy at The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. In Spring 2016 he will be back at the Stanford, this time as William H. Bonsall Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy.