Law and Philosophy Workshop

LAW AND PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP FOR 2011-12:
GLOBAL JUSTICE
Martha Nussbaum, Ryan Long   

Readings will be circulated in advance to all members.

Students who wish to take the workshop for credit are admitted by permission of the instructors.  They should submit a c.v. and a statement (reasons for interest in the course, relevant background in law and/or philosophy) by September 20 to the instructors by e-mail.  Usual participants include graduate students in philosophy, political science, and divinity, and law students.

Fall Quarter

• September 26:  brief organizational meeting: students only

• October 3:  meeting to discuss background readings: students only

• October 17:  David Golove, NYU Law School

• October 31: Samuel Scheffler, NYU Philosophy and Law, "The Idea of Global Justice: A Progress Report"           

• November 14:  Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Philosophy, Duke University

• November 28: David Weisbach, University of Chicago Law School, “Discounting and Global Justice over Time"

Winter Quarter

• January 23: David Estlund, Philosophy, Brown University, and Distinguished Political Philosophy Visitor, University of Chicago Law School, "Liberal Associationism and the Rights of States" 

• January 30:  Adam Hosein, Philosophy, University of Coloardo, and Adam Cox, Law, New York University

• February 13: Charles Beitz, Philosophy and University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

• February 20: Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School, “Human Rights: Empirical Issues” 

Spring Quarter

• April 9: Mark Rowlands, Philosophy, University of Miami, "The Moral Status of Animals: Patients, Agents and/or Subjects?"

• April 16: Martha Nussbaum, Law School, Philosophy, and Divinity, University of Chicago

• April 30: Leif Wenar, Philosophy, King’s College, London

• May 7:  Matthias Risse, Harvard University, Kennedy School

Other Law-Philosophy Events:

Friday-Saturday, February 17-18: Conference on Manhood in American Law and Literature, with plenary speaker author Joyce Carol Oates, and papers by Douglas Baird, Emily Buss, Saul Levmore, Richard McAdams, Martha Nussbaum, and a group of distinguished outside visitors.  This conference, the third in our law-literature series, will include a dramatic performance of scenes from The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (starring Daniel Abebe as Maryck, Jonathan Masur as Greenwald, and Richard Posner as Queeg) and Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes (starring Douglas Baird as Horace and Martha Nussbaum as Regina). 

Wednesday, February 29:  Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan, Philosophy and Law) will deliver the Dewey Lecture.