Center for Law and Philosophy

FALL 2020

FALL 2020

Professors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy

Schedule of Speakers

September 3
Samuel Scheffler, NYU

Procreation, Immigration, and the Future of Humanity

September 10th 
Aditi Bagchi, Fordham 

Moral Collective Action Problems and the Timing of Legal Rules

September 17th
Lewis Kornhauser, NYU

An Achievement Concept of Law

September 24th
Tommie Shelby, Harvard

Functional Critiques of Prisons

October 1st
Jeremy Waldron, NYU

What Demonstrations Mean 

October 8th
Rebecca Stone,  UCLA

Normative Uncertainty, Normative Powers, and Limits on Freedom of Contract

October 15th
Andrei Marmor, Cornell

Rationalizing Practices and the Hermeneutic Challenge

October 22nd
Richard Fallon, Harvard

The Chimerical Concept of Original Public Meaning

October 29th
Katja  Vogt, Columbia

Law and the Metaethics of Discord

November 5th
Liam Murphy, NYU

Nonlegislative Justification: Against Legalist Moral Theory

November 12th
Frances Kamm, Rutgers

Torture: Rescue, Prevention, and Punishment

November 19th 
Sally Haslanger,  MIT

Political Epistemology and Social Critique

December 3rd
David Estlund, Brown University

What's Unjust about  Structural Injustice?