Featured speaker: Michael Sandel

Michael Sandel explores the moral ideas behind the world's most controversial issues in his popular lectures and books, including his latest work, the New York Times best-seller Justice: What's the Right Thing To Do?

Currently the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, Sandel has taught political philosophy there since 1980. He has been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne in Paris and has delivered prestigious guest lectures around the world, including the BBC Reith Lectures.

Sandel based his latest book on his undergraduate course in political philosophy, Justice, which regularly attracts more than 1,000 students and is the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on public television. His other books include Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Democracy's Discontent and The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. His work has been translated into 15 foreign languages, and his writings have appeared the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic and the New York Times.