Richard Lehun
Richard Lehun | |
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| Nationality | German-Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | Inter-disciplinary visual artist (film and photography) and Attorney, |
| Known for | Former teaching fellow at McGill University |
Richard Lehun is a German-Canadian inter-disciplinary visual artist (film and photography), attorney, and former teaching fellow at McGill University in the areas of fiduciary law and justice theory.
Biography
Law and Philosophy
Richard Lehun studied under Jürgen Habermas at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main on a DAAD Scholarship and completed his Magister Artium on non-conceptual truth claims in T.W. Adorno's Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory.
After completing his Magister Artium, Richard Lehun pursued graduate studies in Canada, first completing a B.C.L. / LL.B. and then moving on directly to the D.C.L. program at McGill University. Richard Lehun's legal focus is fiduciary law and intellectual property, and he gathered practical legal experience while having worked with Léger Robic Richard,[1]
Montréal's respected practitioners in the field. While completing his legal studies he also performed community legal service on the part of Project Genesis. Project Genesis a grassroots community nonprofit in Montréal focused on anti-poverty and housing rights law and advocacy.
During his doctorate, Richard Lehun worked with Prof. Richard Janda[2] and their "Sustainable Development as an Emancipatory Truth Claim", questioned both the focus and pedagogical model of conventional legal education. The course was also co-taught at the Law Faculty of the Freie Universität, Berlin in 2008. The approach of the course has been based on the work of Prof. Roderick Macdonald (former F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law)[3] also of McGill University.
Richard Lehun's current research is focused on the concept of the fiduciary as applied to social transformation. In 2010, Richard Lehun was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School under Duncan Kennedy. In November 2012, he received a six-month scholarship from the DAAD for studies on the political implications of his theory of emancipatory justice at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bernd Holznagel. In 2014, Richard Lehun acted as Junior Faculty for the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School, and a regular guest lecturer at O. P. Jindal Global University in New Delhi and SOMA in Mexico City.
As of October 2017, Richard Lehun is writing his habilitation on Adorno and justice theory at the Philosophy Department of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, which is scheduled to be published as part of the Routledge Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers’ series.
Richard Lehun is a founding member of the New York Stropheus legal and business collective for the arts, responsible for gallery, museum, and auction house ethics and fiduciary duties, and is a member of the Art Law Committee of New York City Bar Association. He is a regular guest lecturer at Sotheby's Institute of Art and Christie's Education on the topic of fiduciary obligations in the fine art context.