September 9
Samuel Issacharoff, NYU School of Law
Political Corruption

September 16
Samuel Scheffler, NYU School of Law
The Afterlife

September 23
Arthur Ripstein, University of Toronto
Paper removed at the author’s request.

September 30
Japa Pallikkathayil, NYU
The Possibility of Choice: Three Accounts of the Problem with Coercion

October 7
Dieter Grimm, Humboldt University, Berlin
The Achievement of Constitutionalism and its Prospects in a Changed World

October 14
Ronald Dworkin, NYU
Human Rights and International Law

October 21
Niko Kolodny, U.C. Berkeley
Having a Say

October 28
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
A Thinker-Based Approach to Freedom of Speech

November 4
Kit Fine, NYU
The Structure of Joint Intention

November 11
Charles Taylor, McGill University, Montreal
How to Define Secularism

November 18
Katrina Wyman, NYU School of Law
Sinking States

December 2
Frances Kamm, Harvard University
Reasons for Starting War: Goals, Conditions, and Proportionality

December 9
Noah Feldman, Harvard University
Between Cooperation and Competition: A Preliminary Essay in the Philosophy of International Law