About the Author

Court Lewis received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, where he specialized in Ethics, Justice, and Forgiveness. He became interested in forgiveness studies while studying mass atrocities and social oppression in 20th Century Europe, especially after reading Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower. His philosophical work on Justice and Rights introduced him to Nicholas Wolterstorff's ethical concept eirenéism-a peace-based theory of rights. Combining eirenéism with the concept of forgiveness, Court developed a rights-based ethic of forgiveness. His research was featured in his dissertation, was the basis for a Capstone Philosophy course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which featured visiting speakers working on forgiveness, such as Martha Nussbaum, and portions of it have appeared in scholarly peer-reviewed journals such as Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel. He is currently completing a monograph on his research. Court is Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Owensboro Community and Technical College. Contributors MARIANO CRESPO obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Complutense University in Madrid (Spain). Elisabetta Bertolino holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Law/Legal Theory from Birkbeck College-University of London. Kathleen Poorman Dougherty has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Oklahoma. Joshua M. Hall is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, Oxford College. A.G. Holdier is teacher and Program Director for Southern Idaho's Minidoka Christian Education Association, as well as an ethics instructor for Colorado Technical University. Leonard Kahn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. Frederik Kaufman is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College. Jeff Lambert is a Ph.D. candidate at Duquesne University. John McClellan received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Tennessee. Ryan Michael Murphy teaches philosophy at Southwest Colorado Community College, Durango. Zachary Thomas Settle is currently a Ph.D. student in the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt. Adrian Switzer, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri Kansas City.