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The Rule of Law: Basis of Political Stability
Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan
November 21-25, 2005
Dr. Russell Hittinger

Dr. Russell Hittinger was nominated visiting professor to teach an intensive elective course at the prestigious Khazar University in Baku, Azerbaijan. This was combined with a graduate seminar at the downtown campus. Taking place during a week filled with post-election demonstrations in the country’s capital, the timing of the conference underlined the urgency of the theme treated.

The course for undergraduates in the faculty of law consisted of nine 80-minute lectures. In addition, Dr. Hittinger directed a short seminar for graduate students at a different campus on the subject of civil society and subsidiarity.

Finally, the professor addressed an invited audience for a lecture during which the foundations of natural law and natural rights were examined in the light of a comparison of the United States and proposed European constitutions.

Dr. Russell Hittinger, who earned his Ph.D. at St. Louis University, teaches philosophy at the University of Tulsa, where he is chair of the department. He has also taught at Catholic University of America, Princeton University, Fordham University, and New York University. Professor Hittinger received the Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association for Privacy and Liberal Legal Culture in 1991. His books and articles have been published by Oxford University Press, the University of Notre Dame Press, the Review of Politics, as well as several law journals.