Friday, January 11, 2008 - 12:30pm to Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Solarium

Legal Theory Workshop

presents

Professor Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
Kenan Professor of Philosophy
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Kant and Humanitarian Intervention

12:30 - 2:00
Friday, January 11, 2008
Solarium (room FA2) - Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

The essay begins by sketching a Kantian perspective and then reviews the apparent presumption in favor of humanitarian intervention, various practical considerations, and Kant's apparently inflexible opposition.  The critical questions then are:  (1) Does a government's responsibility to its own citizens prohibit intervention primarily for the sake of dcitizens of other countries? (2) Does the case for humanitarian intervention depend on illegitimate ideas about the right to punish or forfeiture of the right to govern? (3) Does forceful intervention in the governance of another state necessarily violate the rights of the citizens of that state?

A light lunch will be provided.


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