LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP SERIES
presents
John Oberdiek
Rutgers School of Law - Camden
Choice, Value, and the Perfection of Distributive Justice
Friday, November 21, 2008
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park
Professor Oberdiek regularly teaches Torts, Administrative Law, and a survey course in legal and political philosophy called Law, Justice and Society, as well as a seminar in tort theory called Risk, Responsibility and Rights and another philosophically-oriented seminar called Democracy, Legitimacy, and the Modern Administrative State. His research focuses on normative legal theory, especially tort theory and the theory of risk regulation, general jurisprudence, as well as moral and political philosophy.
Professor Oberdiek joined the Law School faculty from the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter in 2004. After receiving his B.A. from Middlebury College, he pursued graduate study in philosophy, first at Balliol College, Oxford, then at NYU, where he received his M.A., and finally at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received both his J.D. and Ph.D through the University's Joint Program in Law and Philosophy. In 2005-06, Professor Oberdiek was on leave at Princeton University, where he was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow in the University Center for Human Values as well as a Fellow in the Program in Ethics and Public Affairs.
Professor Oberdiek is also Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy.
A light lunch will be served.
For more information about this workshop, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
