The migration crisis has triggered a shift in politics away from an ethics of ultimate ends to an ethic of responsibility, the question of the ‘we’ to whom we owe solidarity reappearing in pre-political concepts like ethnicity and national culture.
David Abraham
Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law; teaches property, immigration and citizenship law, citizenship and identity, law and the transition to capitalism, and law and social theory. Publishes widely in these areas and serves as a commentator for American, German, and Israeli newspapers and television. Has been visiting professor at Tübingen University in Germany, Deakin University in Australia, the École des Hautes Études in Paris, the Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast, and a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
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