Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is speaking at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.

Amidst mounting criticism, Professor Lawrence Lessig, the center’s director, said that Spitzer is not giving a “lecture on ethics.”

Spitzer’s topic is “What Should Be the Rationale for Government Participation in the Market?”

Lessig said that Spitzer was “invited to speak as part of a series on the topic of ‘institutional corruption.’”

Institutional corruption is not connected to ethics?

Spitzer should know something about corruption since he had been on both sides of that coin.

Kristin Davis, the madam who supplied Spitzer with his harem of hookers, felt there was plenty of hypocrisy in the speaking arrangement.

“I am greatly intrigued as to what Mr. Spitzer could contribute to an ethical discussion when, as [governor], he broke numerous laws for which he has yet to be punished,” Davis said.

Davis was sentenced to three months in jail for her role in providing Spitzer with hookers and has taken a vocal position that Spitzer should also be punished. She finds it particularly galling that he is slowly being rehabilitated back into politics.