Legal Theory Workshop: Claire Finkelstein

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP SERIES

presents

Claire Finkelstein

Professor of Law and Philosophy

University of Pennsylvania

Hobbesian Legal Reasoning and the Problem of Wicked Laws

12:30 – 2:00

Friday, November 19, 2010

Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall

84 Queen’s Park

Claire Finkelstein is one of the country’s leading scholars writing at the intersection of philosophy and law. She has published extensively in the areas of criminal law theory, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, and rational choice theory. One of her distinctive contributions is bringing philosophical rational choice theory to bear on legal theory, and she is particularly interested in tracing the implications of Hobbes’ political theory for substantive legal questions. Recently she has also been writing on the moral and legal aspects of government-sponsored torture as part of the U.S. national security program. In 2008 Finkelstein was a Siemens Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, during which time she presented papers in Berlin, Leipzig and Heidelberg. She is currently working on her book, Contractarian Legal Theory, and is the editor of Hobbes on Law (Ashgate, 2005). She is Co-Director of Penn’s Institute for Law and Philosophy.

A light lunch will be served.

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko@utoronto.ca.