Devon Mercer
Devon Mercer, from Auburn, New Hampshire, is a student at UNH-Manchester. She intends to earn a B.A. in History and then go on to law school. Her article is drawn from the research she did for Professor John Cerullo’s “Rights Revolution” course. She was surprised, she said, at how the sources she read were able to deal objectively with so emotional a subject. This research has helped her decide to concentrate on civil rights law, especially the role of the state in moral and ethical questions.
John Cerullo
John Cerullo, Professor of European History, has been on the faculty at UNH-Manchester for twenty-six years. His research and teaching subjects, wide-ranging during these years, have been principally in the area of modern European intellectual history, especially the history of moral thought. A recent interest in legal theory led him to spend a sabbatical as visiting scholar at the Boston College School of Law. One result of this was a new course, “The ’Rights Revolution,’” which he developed and taught for the UNH Justice Studies Program. Professor Cerullo is an enthusiastic, effective supporter and mentor of students doing independent research.
Read Devon Mercer’s research article, The Wrongful-Life Concept: The Role of the Courts in Individual Morality >>
