David Luban is Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown
University Law Center and Department of Philosophy. His primary
affiliation is with the Law Center, with a joint appointment in the
Department. Born in Milwaukee, he was educated at the University of
Chicago and Yale, from which he received the Ph.D. in philosophy in 1974.
After teaching at Yale for one year and Kent State University for four, he
joined the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of
Maryland in 1979, to conduct the Institute's project on legal ethics. At
the same time he began teaching legal ethics at the University of Maryland
School of Law, where he eventually became Morton and Sophia Macht
Professor of Law. He has held visiting appointments in the philosophy
departments of Dartmouth College and the University of Melbourne, as well
as the Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. He has held a Guggenheim
Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
Since Patrick Byrne launched Overstock.com® in 1999, he and his company
have garnered attention from numerous national media outlets, including
the Wall Street Journal, ABC News with Peter Jennings, Fortune, CBS
Marketwatch, and Business Week, among others, and is a frequent guest on
Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and Fox shows (such as Cavuto and Kudlow & Cramer). In
2002, Byrne was named to Business Week's list of the 25 most influential
people in e-Business: the magazine cited survival strength and vision as
qualities that qualified Byrne for the list. In 2003 Ernst & Young awarded
Byrne an "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in the category of Lifetime
Achievement. Patrick Byrne received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth
College (Asian Studies & Philosophy), a master's degree in philosophy from
Cambridge University as a Marshall scholar, and a doctorate in philosophy
from Stanford University.