All workshops take place on Tuesdays and are online via Zoom, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
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. Faculty Sponsors: Deborah Hellman and Gregg Strauss.
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
