Deen Chatterjee has been a faculty affiliate at Oxford Consortium for Human Rights at the Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict at Oxford University. He was Senior Fellow in the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah until 2020. Earlier, he was Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City and a philosophy faculty at the University of Utah.

His research and publications in political philosophy and normative jurisprudence focus on theories of global justice, especially on the intersections of human rights, democracy, justice, and war and peace.

Chatterjee received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Washington. He has taught at the New School for Social Research, the University of Washington, and the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Shipboard Education, where he sailed around the world for a semester on the Institute's "floating campus." He has been an Eccles Faculty Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center, a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Oregon, a Gowen Fellow at the University of Washington, and an NEH Faculty Fellow at the Summer Institute of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. In addition, he has held a David Gardner Faculty Fellowship at Harvard University.

His publications include The Ethics of Preventive War (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008); The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy (Cambridge University Press, 2004); and Ethics and Foreign Intervention, with Don E. Scheid (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Chatterjee is the Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Global Justice (Springer, 2011) and the Series Editor of Studies in Global Justice (Springer), with 22 volumes published to date in the Series.

Besides contributing chapters in several anthologies and encyclopedias, Chatterjee has published in many noted journals, including The Monist; Metaphilosophy; Ethics & International Affairs; Philosophy & Social Criticism; Ethics; The Journal of Moral Philosophy; Social Philosophy Today; Philosophy East and West, and The Good Society.

Chatterjee has delivered invited lectures at leading universities and academies in the US, Canada, Brazil, England, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Turkey, Japan, Australia, and India.

He is a member of the editorial advisory board of several leading journals, including Journal of Global Ethics; Journal of Social Philosophy; and Carnegie Council’s flagship journal Ethics & International Affairs. He was Advisory Editor of The Monist 86:3, 2003.

In 2015, Chatterjee was a member of a delegation on a three-week trip to Japan (including a site visit to Fukushima) on a Carnegie Council assignment on technology and risk. In 2013, he co-chaired the Section on Philosophy and Globalization at the World Congress of Philosophy in Athens, Greece and co-chaired the Section on Applied Ethics at the World Congress in Istanbul, Turkey in 2003.

In 2020, Chatterjee hosted Jane Goodall at the S. J. Quinney College of Law for a talk, titled: Reasons for Hope: An Afternoon with Jane Goodall. In 2006, he co-directed with Martha Nussbaum an international conference on Tagore’s Philosophy of Education. In 2004, Chatterjee directed an international and interdisciplinary women’s forum, titled: Student Conference on Gender, Diversity, and Identity. In 2001, he directed a national forum, titled: Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Group Rights, that assembled a distinguished group of participants who were among the most innovative and influential voices of feminist and multicultural ideas.

Chatterjee and the noted film producer/director Trent Harris have jointly made a documentary film, shot on location, on the plight of child soldiers in Sierra Leone.

deen.chatterjee@law.utah.edu