Dr. David Guinn is a noted moral, political and legal philosopher and human rights advocate. He has written extensively on issues of national and international human rights, pluralism, and law in thirteen books and over 60 articles. The book Organizational Ethics in Health Care (Jossey Bass, 2001), of which he is a co-author, won the 2002 James Hamilton Book of the Year Award. Dr. Guinn is currently working on two new books: Constantine’s Standard: Meditations on Religion, Violence, Law, Politics and a Faith to Die For and Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (Vol. 5) - Religion, Law, Politics and Economics.

Dr. Guinn is currently engaged as a Senior Associate overseeing the Afghanistan Parliamentary Assistance Project. Dr. Guinn’s interests and expertise spans a wide range of development concerns including rule of law, international public law, human rights, intellectual property, public policy, research, training and project management (USAID, State Department, private foundation) with special expertise in post-conflict multicultural and religious pluralism. His international project work includes work in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, and Central America working with, among others, the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq/DynCorp, the International, Development Law Organization, and as Executive Director of the International Human Rights Law Institute at the DePaul University College of Law, where he also taught as an adjunct professor of law.
Originally employed in the theater, Dr. Guinn obtained his law degree from Fordham University Law School and practiced entertainment and creative rights law for almost fifteen years. He returned to school and obtained a Masters from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal.

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