Friday, February 7, 2014 - 12:30pm to Saturday, February 8, 2014 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Solarium - Falconer Hall - 84 Queen's Park

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP SERIES
presents

 

Corey Brettschneider
Brown University Political Science Department

Democratic Persuasion and Freedom of Speech:
A Response to Four Critics and Two Allies


12:30 – 2:00
Friday, February 7, 2014
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall 
84 Queen’s Park

COREY BRETTSCHNEIDER is professor of political science at Brown University, where he teaches courses in political theory and public law. He is also professor, by courtesy, of philosophy. Brettschneider was a Rockefeller faculty fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values for the 2010-2011 academic year, a visiting associate professor at Harvard Law School for the 2009 winter term, and a faculty fellow at Harvard's Safra Center for Ethics for the 2006-2007 academic year. Brettschneider received a PhD in politics from Princeton University and a JD from Stanford University. He is the author of When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality, (Princeton University Press, 2012) andDemocratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government (Princeton University Press, 2007). Brettschneider is also the author of a casebook, Constitutional Law and American Democracy: Cases and Readings, (Aspen Publishers/Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2011). His articles include "A Transformative Theory of Religious Freedom," in Political Theory (2010), "When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? Democratic Persuasion and the Freedom of Expression," in Perspectives on Politics (2010), and "The Politics of the Personal: A Liberal Approach," in the American Political Science Review (2007). 

A light lunch will be served.  


The Legal Theory Workshop is not open to the general public. We welcome individuals affiliated with the Faculty of Law and closely related departments, including political science, philosophy, criminology, history and the Centre for Ethics. All other individuals interested in attending must seek prior approval from the organizers of the workshop.


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