Torcello, Lawrence. "The Acceleration of Global Warming as Crime Against Humanity: A Moral Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment." Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, ed. David Boonin,. New ...

Lawrence Torcello specializes in social and political philosophy, moral theory, and applied ethics. His current research interests focus on democratic theory, liberalism, and issues of climate justice ...

Torcello is a northerly island in the Venetian lagoon that sits nearby Burano, another island and tourist hot spot. Torcello features a range of archaeological finds, including the so-called "Attila's ...

A gondolier navigates the Venetian Lagoon, a shallow, 210-square-mile bay fed by the Adriatic Sea, at sunset. agustavop/iStock The tamarisk trees are blooming along the canals of Torcello. Their dusty ...

On the island of Torcello, at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice excavation site, some protagonists of the island's thousand-year history have begun to emerge. A tomb datable to around 700 A.D. has ...