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D-Index
25
Citations
4994
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367
National Ranking
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David Luban publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Luban sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 87 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

David Luban D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Luban sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 25 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David Luban is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, focusing on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Economics and Econometrics, Clinical Psychology, and Political Science and International Relations.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, Climate Change and Geoengineering, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Psychiatric Care and Mental Health Services, and Migration, Health and Trauma.

David Luban's recent notable publications include:

  • Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Unseen urgency: Delay as the new denial, 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Commentary by Henry Shue:, 2020, Torture Journal
  • EIA volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Front matter, 2021, Ethics & International Affairs
  • EIA volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter, 2022, Ethics & International Affairs

The frequent co-authors collaborating with David Luban are:

  • Darrel Moellendorf
  • Joel H. Rosenthal
  • Jana Weinstein
  • Alex J. Bellamy
  • Daniel R. Brunstetter

Publications by David Luban appear often in Ethics & International Affairs with six works, as well as in Nature Climate Change, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Torture Journal, and Filosofia e questioni pubbliche.

David Luban has authored multiple books published by Princeton University Press. Among these are two editions each of Basic Rights published in 2020, and The Pivotal Generation published in 2021. These publications contribute to the scholarly discourse and have received citations reflecting their academic engagement.

In recognition of their career, David Luban was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014 and became a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy

    Unknown

  • Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study

    David Luban

  • Global Environment and International Inequality

    Unknown

  • Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics

    Joseph Raz

  • Poetic Justice: Punitive Damages and Legal Pluralism

    Marc Galanter;David Luban

  • Climate Ethics: Essential Readings

    Stephen M. Gardiner;Simon Caney;Dale Jamieson;Henry Shue

  • Mediating Duties

    Unknown

  • Liberty and Self-Respect

    Unknown

  • Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb

    David Luban

  • Torture in Dreamland: Disposing of the Ticking Bomb

    Unknown

  • Just and unjust warriors : the moral and legal status of soldiers

    Unknown

  • Just war and human rights

    David Luban

  • A Theory of Crimes Against Humanity

    David Luban

  • Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement

    Kate Dooley;Christian Holz;Sivan Kartha;Sonja Klinsky

  • Basic Rights

    Unknown

  • Limiting the Killing in War: Military Necessity and the St. Petersburg Assumption

    Unknown

  • Just and Unjust Warriors

    Unknown

  • The Burdens of Justice

    Unknown

  • Legal Ethics and Human Dignity

    David Luban

  • Cascading biases against poorer countries

    Sivan Kartha;Tom Athanasiou;Simon Caney;Elizabeth Cripps

  • Basic rights : Subsistance, affluence, and U.S. foreign policy

    Unknown

  • Moral Responsibility in the Age of Bureaucracy

    David Luban;Alan Strudler;David Wasserman

  • Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War

    Unknown

  • Do We Need a ‘Morality of War’?

    Unknown

  • Historical Responsibility, Harm Prohibition, and Preservation Requirement: Core Practical Convergence on Climate Change

    Unknown

  • Integrity: Its Causes and Cures

    David Luban

  • Limiting Attacks on Dual-Use Facilities Performing Indispensable Civilian Functions*

    Unknown

  • Military Necessity and the Cultures of Military Law

    David Luban

  • Human dignity, humiliation, and torture

    David Luban

  • Fairness to Rightness: Jurisdiction, Legality, and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law

    David Luban

  • The War on Terrorism and the End of Human Rights

    David Luban

  • Lawyers and Justice

    Vincent Luizzi;David Luban

  • After the Honeymoon Reflections on the Current State of International Criminal Justice

    David Luban

  • Legal Ideals and Moral Obligations: A Comment on Simon

    David Luban

  • Torture, Power, and Law

    David Luban

  • Risk Taking and Force Protection

    David Luban;Dan Priel;François Tanguay-Renaud

  • Lawfare and Legal Ethics in Guantanamo

    David Luban

  • Mental Torture: A Critique of Erasures in U.S. Law

    David Luban;Henry Shue

  • Taking Out the Adversary: The Assault on Progressive Public Interest Lawyers

    David Luban

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven R. Ratner
Steven R. Ratner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Roger Brownsword
Roger Brownsword King's College London
Richard A. Posner
Richard A. Posner University of Chicago
David H. Wasserman
David H. Wasserman Vanderbilt University

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