Legal Theory Workshop: Past Years

2011 - 2012

September 16 Friday 12:30 – 2:00	Solarium (Room FA2) 84 Queen’s Park	Ben Zipursky - Fordham School of Law Substantive Standing, Civil Recourse and Corrective Justice
October 14 Friday 12:30- 2:00	Dining Room Flavelle House 78 Queen’s Park	Kinch Hoekstra – University of California, Berkeley Law School Hobbesian Equality
October 28 Friday 1:00 – 2:30	Dining Room Flavelle House 78 Queen’s Park	Richard Wright – Chicago-Kent College of Law Misunderstanding Justice and Rights
November 18 Friday 12:30 – 2:00	Solarium (Room FA2) 84 Queen’s Park	Helge Dedek – McGill Law School Duties of Love and Self-Perfection: Moses Mendelssohn’s Theory of Contract
February 3 Friday 12:30 – 2:00	Solarium (Room FA2) 84 Queen’s Park	Amelie Rorty – Harvard University On the Other Hand: The Ethics of Ambivalence
March 9 Friday 12:30 – 2:00	Solarium (Room FA2) 84 Queen’s Park	Jay Wallace – Department of Philosophy, UC Berkeley Rightness and Responsibility
March 30 Friday 12:30 – 2:00	Solarium (Room FA2) 84 Queen’s Park	Stephen Perry – University of Pennsylvania Law School Political Authority and Political Obligation
April 13 Friday 12:30 – 2:00	Faculty Common Room Flavelle House 78 Queen’s Park	Hanna Pickard – All Soul’s College, Oxford From the Consulting Room to the Court Room: Taking the Clinical Model of Responsibility for Personality-Disordered Patients into the Criminal Law

2010 - 2011

Date	Speaker	Title
September 24 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	David Velleman New York Univeristy Dept. of Philosophy Herlinde Pauer-Studer University of Vienna Dept. of Philosophy	Distortions of Normativity
October 22 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	T.M. Scanlon Harvard University Dept. of Philosophy	When Does Equality Matter?
November 19 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	Claire Finkelstein University of Pennsylvania Law School and Dept. of Philosophy	Hobbesian Legal Reasoning and the Problem of Wicked Laws
PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME: January 7 Friday 4:00 - 6:00 PM	Martha Nussbaum University of Chicago Law School and Dept. of Philosophy NEW LOCATION: SOLARIUM (Room FA2) Falconer Hall, 84 Queen's Park	Perfectionist Liberalism and Political Liberalism
PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME February 17 Thursday 3:00 - 5:00	Gillian Lester UC Berkeley Law School Co-sponsored by the Feminism & Law Workshop series LOCATION: Faculty Lounge, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park	Can Joe the Plumber Support Redistributino? Law, Social Preferences, and Sustainable Policy Design Co-sponsored by the Feminism and Law Worshop Series.
March 11 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	Ekow Yankah Cardozo Law School LOCATION: FLA (Classroom A), Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
April 1 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	Leif Wenar King's College, London LOCATION: Dining Room, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park	Clean Trade in Natural Resources
April 8 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	Liam Murphy New York University Law School and Dept. of Philosophy NEW LOCATION: Faculty Lounge, Flavelle House 78 Queen's Park

2009 - 2010

Date	Speaker	Title
September 24 Thursday 12:30 - 2:00 Location: Flavelle Dining Rm. 78 Queen's Park	Larry May Vanderbilt University Law School and Dept. of Philosophy)	The Nature and Value of Procedural Rights
October 23 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	Leo Katz University of Pennsylvania Law School	A Theory of Loopholes
January 15 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	*Roundtable on The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality* by Ayelet Shachar** University of Toronto	Participants include: Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Political Science; James Orbinski, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine and Dept. of Political Science; Cristina Rodriguez, NYU School of Law
February 3 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Gary Watson University of of Southern California, Dept. of Philosophy and Gould School of Law	The Trouble with Psychopaths
February 26 Friday 30 - 2:00	Will Waluchow McMaster University Dept. of Philosophy	On the Neutrality of Charter Reasoning
March 19 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	John Goldberg Harvard Law School	Tort Law as a Law of Civil Recourse
March 26 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	Alice Ristroph Seton Hall Law School	Disestablishing the Family

2008 - 2009

Date	Speaker	Title
September 12 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	Brian Tamanaha St. John's University Law School	The Distorting Slant in Quantitative Studies of Judging
October 31 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	Aaron James University of California, Irvine Dept. of Philosophy	Global Economic Fairness: Internal Principles
November 21 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	John Oberdiek Rutgers Law School, Camden	Choice, Value, and the Perfection of Distributive Justice
DECEMBER 4 THURSDAY 12:30 - 2:00 Location: Flavelle Dining Rm. 78 Queen's Park	Dwight Newman University of Saskatchewan College of Law
January 16 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	Deborah Hellman University of Maryland School of Law	Prosecuting Doctors for Trusting Patients
February 6 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	John Simmons University of Virginia Philosophy Dept.	Ideal Theory and the One-State World
FEBRUARY 11 WEDNESDAY 12:30 - 2:00 Location: Flavelle Dining Rm. 78 Queen's Park	Brian Simpson University of Michigan Law School	Lacey: A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream
February 27 Friday 12:30 - 2:00	Chaim Saiman Villanova University School of Law	The Distribution of Doctrinal Complexity Across Common Law Systems
April 3 Friday 12:30 - 2:00 LOCATION: Flavelle Dining Rm 78 Queen's Park	Mattias Kumm New York University School of Law	Democracy Is Not Enough: Rights, Proportionality and the Point of Judicial Review

2007 - 2008

Date	Speaker	Title
Friday, October 5 12:30 - 2:00	David Estlund Brown University Philosophy Dept. Co-sponsored by the Constitutional Roundtable NEW LOCATION: Classroom FLB, 78 Queen's Park	Democratic Authority
Friday, October 26 12:30 - 2:00	Stephen Perry University of Pennsylvania Law School	Law, Authority, and Obligation
Friday, Nov. 16 12:30 - 2:00	Gerald Postema University of North Carolina Department of Philosophy	Conformity, Convention or Congruence: Rethinking the Efficacy of Law
Friday, Nov. 30 12:30 - 2:00	David Enoch Hebrew University Faculty of Law	Intending, Foreseeing, and the State
Wednesday, Dec. 5 12:30 - 2:00	Matthew Adler University of Pennsylvania Law School Co-sponsored by the Law & Economics Workshop	Well-Being, Inequality and Time: The Time-Slice Problem and its Policy Implications
Friday, Januay 11 12:30 - 2:00	Thomas Hill University of North Carolina Department of Philosophy	Kant and Humanitarian Intervention
Friday, February 8 12:30 - 2:00	A. J. Julius UCLA Department of Philosophy	A Lonelier Contractualism
CANCELLED Friday, March 7	THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED Chaim Saiman Villanova University School of Law
Friday, March 28 12:30 - 2:00	David Velleman New York University Philosophy Dept.	tba

2006 - 2007

Date	Speaker	Title
SEPTEMBER 8 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Scott Shapiro University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Massively Shared Agency
SEPTEMBER 22 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Alon Harel Hebrew University	The Right to Judicial Review
NOVEMBER 3 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Meir Dan-Cohen University of California, Berkeley	Revising the Past: On the Metaphysics of Repentance, Forgiveness, and Pardon
DECEMBER 1 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Debra Satz Stanford University	Voluntary Slavery and the Limits of the Market
JANUARY 19 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Will Kymlicka Queen's University Co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop Series.	The New International Politics of Diversity
NEW DATE: JANUARY 26 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Stephen Darwall University of Michigan, Ann Arbor NEW LOCATION: Classroom FLA - 78 Queen's Park	Authority and Second-Personal Reasons for Acting
FEBRUARY 9 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Tamar Schapiro Stanford University; and currently Visiting Professor, Harvard University	The Nature of Desire
MARCH 9 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Frederick Schauer Harvard University	Is there a Concept of Law?
MARCH 30 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Gerald Postema University of North Carolina CANCELLED	Custom and Convention at the Foundations of Law
March 30 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Martin Stone Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law	Positivism as Opposed to What? Law and the Moral Concept of Right

2005 - 2006

Date	Speaker	Title
SEPTEMBER 9 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco University of Birmingham	A Detached Viewpoint in Legal Theory
SEPTEMBER 23 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Patrick Weil Centre national de la recherche scientifique This workshop is co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop series.	Access to citizenship: A comparison of twenty-five nationality laws
SEPTEMBER 30 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Marie-Claire Foblets Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop series.	Muslim Personal Law in Continental Europe: Which law applies in case of divorce? Recent (legislative) developments in France, the Netherlands and Belgium
OCTOBER 28(Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Neil Duxbury University of Manchester	The Authority of Precedent: Two Problems
NOVEMBER 17 (Thursday) 12:10 - 1:45 Please note different day.	Mitra Sharafi Princeton University	Race, Religion and Libel Law: The Parsi Colonial Case Study
NOVEMBER 18 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	James Boyd White University of Michigan NEW LOCATION: Solarium, 84 Queen's Park	To Love and Be Just: Free Speech, Dante, and the Empire of Force
DECEMBER 9 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Stephen Smith McGill University	Comparative Legal Scholarship As Ordinary Legal Scholarship
JANUARY 17 (Tuesday) 12:10 - 1:45 Please note different day.	Pierre Legrand Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne Co-sponsored by the Constitutional Roundtable series.	Comparative Legal Studies and the Matter of Authenticity
JANUARY 27 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Christopher Kutz (University of California, Berkeley)	Torture, Necessity and Existential Politics
FEBRUARY 17 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	David Kennedy Harard University	Challenging Expert Rule: The Politics of Global Governance
MARCH 17 (Friday) 12:10 - 1:45	Reva Siegel Yale Law School	Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict and Constitutional Change: The Case of the de facto ERA