Legal Theory Workshop: Stephen Perry

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP

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Professor Stephen Perry
University of Pennsylvania Law School

Friday, March 30, 2012
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall

Stephen Perry is a prominent legal philosopher and legal theorist. Before taking up his current position at Penn, he was the Fiorello La Guardia Professor of Law at NYU Law School, and before that he taught at McGill University.  Perry has published numerous well regarded articles on jurisprudence, political philosophy, and theoretical aspects of the law of torts. He is particularly interested in the methodology of jurisprudence, the general nature of authority and obligation in law, the role of corrective justice in tort law, the morality of risk imposition, and the relationship between legal and moral responsibility.  Perry is a sought-after lecturer and panelist. He has presented papers in many different venues, including the Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy at NYU Law School, the Colloquium on Legal and Political Philosophy at University College London, and the Stanford Research Group on the Nature and Limits of Moral Responsibility. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, and in 2008, he presented a plenary address at the Fourth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations in Singapore. In 2009 he presented his paper “Political Authority and Political Obligation” to the Annual Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference held at King’s College, London.

A light lunch will be provided.

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