Legal Theory Workshop

This workshop series will return in spring 2023.

All workshops, which are open to UVA faculty, take place on Tuesdays in the Faculty Lounge (WB323) 11:30-12:50 p.m. Faculty sponsors: Deborah Hellman and Charles Barzun

Workshops will explore legal issues from a philosophically informed perspective through invited philosophers, political theorists and law professors. The work for discussion will be distributed one week in advance to allow attendants to develop questions to ask the speaker during the workshop. 

Spring 2023

Jan. 24
Erin Kelly
Moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of law 
Tufts University

Jan. 31
Matt Shapiro
Civil procedure, alternative dispute resolution, private law
Rutgers Law School

Feb. 14
Hillary Nye
Legal philosophy focusing on jurisprudential methodology, philosophical pragmatism, the rule of law
University of Alberta

Feb. 28
Felipe Jimenez
Private law, legal theory, comparative private law
University of Southern California Gould School of Law

March 21
Patrick Shin
Philosophical dimensions of problems in antidiscrimination law, issues regarding the meaning and value of diversity, equality and equal treatment
Suffolk University

Fall 2021

Sept. 21
Mihailis Diamantis (in person)
Corporate crime and criminal theory
Iowa College of Law

Oct. 5
Vincent Chiao (in person)
Criminal law, legal theory, public interest
Harvard Law School

Oct. 26
Elizabeth Emens (via Zoom, Purcell Reading Room)
Disability, employment discrimination, legal theory, contracts, sexuality
Columbia Law School

Nov. 9
Hrafn Asgeirsson (via Zoom, Purcell Reading Room)
Philosophy and law
University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Nov. 23
Sally Haslanger (via Zoom, Purcell Reading Room)
Philosophy, women and gender studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spring 2021

Jan. 26
Gabe Mendlow, Michigan Law

Feb. 9
Erik Encarnacion, Texas Law

Feb. 23
Tommie Shelby, Harvard University 

March 16
Gabbrielle Johnson, Claremont McKenna College

March 30
Hrafn Asgeirsson, University of Surrey

April 13
Wendy Salkin, Stanford University

Spring 2020

Jan. 28
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA School of Law

Fall 2019

Oct. 22
Scott Altman, USC Gould School of Law 

Nov. 5 
Michele Moody-Adams, Columbia University

Nov. 22
Melissa Schwartzberg, New York University * Location: Main Grounds, Monroe Hall, Room 118, 2-3:30 p.m.

Dec. 3
Jonathan Quong, University of Southern California

Spring 2019

Jan. 29
David Plunkett, Dartmouth (Philosophy) 
Conceptual Ethics and the Methodology of Normative Inquiry

Fall 2018

Sept. 18 
Genevieve Lakier, University of Chicago 
The First Amendment's Real Lochner Problem

Oct. 16    
Lara Buchak, UC Berkeley (Philosophy) 
Consistency

Nov. 6 
Niko Kolodny, Berkeley (Philosophy)
Official Corruption

Nov. 20 
Kim Mutcherson, Rutgers
Finding Justice in the Business of Making Babies

Dec. 4
Larissa Katz, Toronto
The Function of Equity

Spring 2018          

Jan. 23
Saba Bazargan-Forward, UC San Diego
The Identity-Enactment Account of Associative Duties

April 24
Elizabeth Brake, Arizona State
Marriage, Contract and Care: The Exploitation of Caring Labor

Fall 2017

Oct. 3  
John Oberdiek, Rutgers 
Imposing Risk and the Aims of Tort Theory        

Oct. 17
Aditi Bagchi, Fordham
Lying and Cheating, or Self-Help and Civil Disobedience?

Oct. 24
Jon Elster, Columbia
The Political Psychology of Constitution-Making

Nov. 14
Erin Beeghly, Utah
Failing to Treat Persons as Individuals

Dec. 5
Dick Fallon, Harvard
Strict Judicial Scrutiny and the Nature of Constitutional Rights

Spring 2016

Feb. 15
Brookes Brown, Clemson (Philosophy)
An Incoherent Doctrine for an Incoherent Concept

March 21
Elizabeth Barnes, UVA (Philosophy)
Bad-Difference and Mere-Difference

April 25
Frances Kamm, Harvard (Philosophy)
Torture: Rescue, Prevention and Punishment