Professor Michael J. Sandel

Michael J. Sandel is a contemporary political philosopher and is currently Anne T. and Robert M. Bass professor of government, Harvard University. An author of numerous books, his writings appear in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The New York Times.
Michael teaches graduate and undergraduate courses which focus on: globalisation and its critics; ethics, biotechnology, and the future of human nature; and markets, morals, and the law. He has been awarded the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, and was named a Harvard College Professor in 1999 in recognition of his contributions to undergraduate teaching. From 2002 to 2005, he served on the President's Council on Bioethics, a national council appointed by the President to examine the ethical implications of new biomedical technologies.
Michael’s lastest book, The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, was published by Harvard University Press in 2007.