Workshop Speakers

• 2025-2026 Speakers

  October 9, 2025

  Nicos Stavropoulos

  University of Oxford

  "The Force Hypothesis"

   

  October 30, 2025

  Scott Altman

  University of Southern California Gould School of Law

  "Rights Against Influence and Subversion: The Case of Parental Rights"

   

  November 13, 2025

  Ishani Maitra

  University of Michigan

   

  January 22, 2026

  Amin Afrouzi

  UCLA School of Law

   

  February 5, 2026

  Brian Soucek

  UC Davis School of Law

   

  February 19, 2026

  Lowry Pressly

  Stanford University

   

  March 5, 2026

  Steve Schaus

  University of Michigan

   

  March 19, 2026

  Lily Hu

  Yale University

   

  April 9, 2026

  Ashwini Vasanthakumar

  Queen's University

   

• 2024-25 Speakers

  February 13, 2025

  Ariana Peruzzi

  UCLA School of Law

  "What Justifies Asylum? The role of asylum in a flawed system of nation-states"

   

  February 27, 2025

  Selim Berker

  "How Your Vote Determines a Winner: On the Metaphysics of Voting"

  Harvard University

   

  March 13, 2025

  Conor Crummey

  "Presumptions as Moral Heuristics"

  Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology

   

  April 3, 2025

  Mark Schroeder

  "Might Laws Be Interpretive Works in Progress? Judicial Review and Respect for Precedent"

  University of Southern California

   

  April 17, 2025

  Ruth Chang

  "Aligning AI with Human Values: A Proposal"

  University of Oxford

• 2023-24 Speakers

  April 11, 2024
  Derrick Darby
  Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
  "Armed Self-Defense"

  March 21, 2024
  Shyamkrishna Balganesh
  Columbia Law School
  "The Eunomics of Intellectual Property"

  March 7, 2024
  Jeffrey Helmreich
  UC Irvine
  "True Defamation"

  February 22, 2024
  Erin Miller
  USC Gould School of Law
  "Reviving the Epistemic Justification of Free Speech"

  February 8, 2024
  Marcela Prieto
  USC Gould School of Law
  "War and Coercion"

  January 25, 2024
  Maureen E. Brady
  Harvard Law School
  "Knowledge of the Neighborhood"

  October 12, 2023, 3:20pm - 5:20pm, Faculty Library
  Henry E. Smith
  Harvard Law School
  "Legal Concepts as a Deep Structure of the Law: Reinach's A Priori in Action"

  November 2, 2023, 3:20pm - 5:20pm, Faculty Library
  Irit Samet
  The Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London
  "Trusting the Trustee"

• 2022-2023 Speakers

  April 13, 2023
  Courtney Cox
  Fordham University
  A Chapter About Deception

  March 23, 2023
  Nina Varsava
  University of Wisconsin Law School

  March 9, 2023
  Brian Epstein
  Tufts University, Philosophy

  February 23, 2023
  Thomas Byrne
  UCLA

  February 9, 2023
  Vishnu Sridharan
  UCLA

  October 13, 2022
  Gideon Yaffe
  Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale
  Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology, Yale
  The Inadmissibility of Guilt Rate Evidence

  September 29, 2022
  George Pavlakos
  Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Glasgow School of Law
  Kantian Legal Relation as Radical Non-positivism

• 2021-2022 Speakers

  April 21, 2022
  Dana Nelkin
  Professor of Philosophy, UC San Diego
  Affiliate Professor, USD School of Law
  Control and Quality of Will: Concepts and Conceptions

  March 31, 2022
  Felipe Jimenez
  Assistant Professor of Law and Philosophy, USC Gould School of Law
  Legality, Legal Obligation, and Commitment

  March 10, 2022
  Christopher Lewis
  Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  Adaner Usmani
  Assistant Professor of Sociology & Social Studies, Harvard University
  The Injustice of Underpolicing

  Febraury 24, 2022
  Zoë Sinel
  Associate Professor and Faculty Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario
  Just Feelings: A Tort Law Theory of Emotion

  February 10, 2022
  Benjamin Eidelson
  Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  Respect, Offense, and the Etiquette of Equality

  January 27, 2022
  Larry Sager
  Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair, University of Texas School of Law
  Distinguished Scholar in Residence, UCLA Law and Philosophy Program, UCLA School of Law
  Visiting Professor, UCLA School of Law
  Mark Greenberg
  Michael H. Schill Endowed Chair in Law, UCLA School of Law
  Professor of Philosophy, UCLA School of Law
  Religious Freedom: A Moral Theory of Mandatory Exemptions

  November 18, 2021
  Sam C. Rickless
  Professor, Philosophy, UC San Diego
  Affiliate Professor, University of San Diego School of Law
  Director, Law and Society Program, UC San Diego
  A Theory of Legal Adjudication

  October 21, 2021
  Brittany Farr
  Sharswood Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
  Breach by Violence: The Forgotten History of Sharecropper Litigation in the Post-Slavery South

  September 30, 2021
  Courtney Cox
  Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
  Confronting Normative Uncertainty: Deciding Cases When You Don't Know How to Decide

• 2020 - 2021 Workshops

  April 22, 2021
  David Sosa
  Temple Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin
  The Homogeneity of the Legal

  April 8, 2021
  Hrafn Asgeirsson
  Associate Professor in Philosophy and Law, University of Surrey
  Can We Dispense with Legal Ontology?

  March 18, 2021
  Sabine Tsuruda
  Assistant Professor, Queens Law
  Speech Rights as Equality Rights

  March 4, 2021
  Asya Passinsky
  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Norm and Object: A Normative Hylomorphic Theory of Social Objects

  February 18, 2021
  Jonathan Schaffer
  Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
  No Money, No Women; Or: Social Relationalism as the Best Solution to Grid Collision

  November 12, 2020
  Andrew Currie
  Law & Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
  Interpretation and Inconsistency

  October 15, 2020
  Samuele Chilovi
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Pompeu Fabra University
  Grounding, Explanation, and Legal Positivism

• 2019 - 2020 Workshops

  April 16, 2020
  Wendy Salkin
  Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

  April 2, 2020
  David Strauss
  Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
  "Do It But Don't Tell Me"

  January 30, 2020
  Larry Sager
  Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair, University of Texas
  Distinguished Scholar in Residence, & Visiting Professor, UCLA
  "Imperfect Constitutional Duties"
  
  February 13, 2020
  Lisa Austin
  Professor of Law, University of Toronto
  "Social Identity and the Function of Privacy"
  
  February 27, 2020
  Jed Lewinsohn
  Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
  "Quid Pro Quo: A Theory of Exchange"
  
  March 12, 2020
  Genevieve Lakier
  Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
  "The First Amendment's Real Lochner Problem"

  November 14, 2019
  Diana Raffman
  Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
  "Are Borderline Cases a Source of Legal Indeterminacy?"

  October 24, 2019
  David Beglin
  Law & Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
  "The Participant Attitude, the Basic Concern, and the Moral Psychological Foundations of Responsibility"

  October 10, 2019
  Jeffrey Helmreich
  Professor of Philosophy and Law, UC Irvine
  "Beyond Sincerity: Word-giving, Guaranteeing and the Duty to be Right"

• 2018 - 2019 Workshops

  April 11, 2019
  Nicos Stavropoulos
  Associate Professor of Legal Theory, University of Oxford Faculty of Law

  March 21, 2019
  Mitchell Berman
  Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School

  March 7, 2019
  Sarah Moss
  Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Michigan

  February 21, 2019
  Gideon Rosen
  Philosophy Department Chair and Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University

  February 7, 2019
  Richard Fallon
  Story Professor of Law and an Affiliate Professor in the Government Department, Harvard Law School

  November 8, 2018
  Michele Moody-Adams
  Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory, Columbia University
  "Taking Expression Seriously: Equal Citizenship, Expressive Harm and Confederate Iconography"

  October 4, 2018
  Erik Encarnacion
  Law and Philosophy Fellow, UCLA School of Law
  "Discrimination, Mandatory Arbitration, and Courts"

• 2017 - 2018 Workshops

  April 12, 2018 
  Thomas M. Scanlon
  Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, Harvard University
  "Ideas of Identity and their Normative Status"

  March 22, 2018
  Lewis A. Kornhauser
  Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
  "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Law?"

  March 8, 2018
  Frances Kamm
  Professor of Philosophy & Littauer Professor of Philosophy & Public Policy, Harvard University
  "Doing Death: The Ethics, Law, and Public Policy of Assisted Suicide"

  February 22, 2018
  Sophia Moreau
  Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Toronto
  "Discrimination and Subordination"

  February 8, 2018
  Amy J. Sepinwall
  Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School at the University of 
  "Commercial Complicity"Pennsylvania

  January 25, 2018
  Anna Stilz
  Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Human Values, Department of Politics, Princeton "Theorizing Collective Self-Determination"University

  November 30, 2017
  Scott Hershovitz
  Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Law School"The Law Is Not a Set of Norms"

  November 9, 2017
  Ariel Zylberman
  Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
  "Authority and Relational Reasons"

  October 19, 2017
  Gregory Keating
  William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy, USC Gould School of Law
  "Is Cost-Benefit Analysis the Only Game in Town?"

   

• 2016 - 2017 Workshops

  April 13, 2017
  Moran Yahav
  Law and Philosophy Program Fellow, UCLA School of Law

  March 16, 2017
  Fred Schauer
  David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
  "FRIEDRICH WAISMANN AND THE DISTINCTIVE LOGIC OF LEGAL LANGUAGE"

  March 2, 2017
  Lawrence Solum
  Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center
  "The Constraint Principle: Original Meaning and Constitutional Practice"

  February 16, 2017
  Noah Feldman
  Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, 
  Harvard Law School
  "The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President"

  February 2, 2017
  William Baude
  Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
  "To Jurisprudence and Back Again"

  November 17, 2016
  Pamela Hieronymi
  Professor, Department of Philosophy, UCLA
  "I’ll Bet You Think This Blame Is About You"

  November 3, 2016
  Stephen E. Sachs
  Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
  "Finding Law"26 (Faculty Library)

• 2015 - 2016 Workshops

  April 14, 2016
  David Dyzenhaus
  Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Toronto
  "The Puzzle of Unjust Law"

  March 31, 2016
  Larissa Katz
  Professor of Law, University of Toronto
  "Self-Generated Controversies in Private Law: The Role of Estoppel"

  March 10, 2016
  Eric Rakowski
  Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
  "Gifts That Keep On Giving"

  February 25, 2016
  Gabriel Mendlow
  Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School 
  "Thought Crime"

  February 11, 2016
  Richard Brooks
  Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
  "First Law of Address"

  January 28, 2016
  Avihay Dorfman
  Professor of Law, Tel Aviv and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
  "Market Legalism: Toward a New Philosophy for the Market"

  January 14, 2016
  Kristi Olson
  Professor of Philosophy, Bowdoin College
  "The Anatomy of Envy-Freeness"

  November 19, 2015
  Julie Rose
  Professor of Government and Professor of Gender Studies, Dartmouth
  "Freedom of Association and the Temporal Coordination Problem"

  October 29, 2015
  Stephen Nayak-Young
  Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
  "Regulating Legitimate Authority in Work Relationships"

  October 15, 2015
  Veronique Munoz-Dardé
  Professor of Philosophy, University College London and UC Berkeley
  "Liberalism and Sexual Desire"

• 2014 - 2015 Workshops

  April 16, 2015
  Nicolas Cornell
  Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
  "The Possibility of Preemptive Forgiveness"

  April 2, 2015
  Barbara Herman
  Professor of Philosophy, UCLA
  "Imperfect Duties: Connecting Private and Public Morality"

  March 5, 2015
  Lawrence Sager
  Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law
  “Why Churches (And, Possibly, The Tarpon Bay Women's Blue Water Fishing Club) Can Discriminate”

  February 19, 2015
  Daniela Dover
  Law and Philosophy Program Fellow, UCLA School of Law
  "What Moral Criticism is Not"

  February 5, 2015
  Ralph Wedgwood
  Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California
  "Is Civil Marriage Illiberal?"

  November 6, 2014
  Elizabeth Harman
  Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
  "Ethics is Hard! What Follows?"

  October 9, 2014
  Thomas Bustamante
  Professor of Law, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  "On the Moral Burdens of Constitutional Courts"

   

• 2013 - 2014 Workshops

  April 24, 2014
  Robert Hughes
  Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
  "Imprisonment and Natural Duties" (Faculty Library)

  April 3, 2014
  Kinch Hoekstra
  Professor of Law and Political Science, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
  "Popular Tyranny and Athenian Democracy"

  March 13, 2014
  Leslie Kendrick
  Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
  "What Makes Speech Special"6 (Faculty Library)

  February 27, 2014
  Kimberly Ferzan
  Distinguished Professor, Rutgers School of Law
  Visiting Professor and Charles J. Merriam Scholar, University of Chicago Law School
  "The Bluff: The Power of Insincere Actions"

  February 13, 2014
  Christopher Essert
  Professor, Queen’s University Faculty of Law
  "Two Ways of Thinking about Property (and Law and Promising)"

  January 30, 2014
  Ekow Yankah
  Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
  "The Sovereign and the Republic: A Republican View of Political Obligation"

  January 16, 2014
  Colin Macleod
  Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Victoria
  "Equality of Opportunity and the Consequences of Choice"

  November 21, 2013
  Michelle Dempsey
  Professor, Villanova University School of Law
  "Authority, Obedience, and Justification: Two Puzzles"

  October 31, 2013
  Matt King
  Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
  "Standing and Blaming"

  October 10, 2013
  Jonathan Quong
  Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California
  "Intentions and Permissibility: A Puzzling Asymmetry"

• 2012 - 2013 Workshops

  April 25, 2013
  Paul Seabright
  University of Toulouse
  "The Role of Religious Observance as a Reinforcer of Social Norms in Societies with Weak Legal Institutions"
  
  April 11, 2013
  Jeremy Waldron
  NYU School of Law; Oxford University
  "Five To Four: Why Do Bare Majorities Rule On Courts?​"
  
  April 4, 2013
  Larry Sager
  ​University of Texas, Austin School of Law
  "Equal Membership in a Partial World​​"
  
  March 14, 2013
  Stephen Neale
  CUNY Philosophy
  "Convergentism & the Nature of Law​"
  
  February 28, 2013
  Mark Murphy
  Georgetown Philosophy
  "The Explanatory Role of the Weak Natural Law Thesis​"
  
  February 7, 2013
  Andrei Marmor
  USC Philosophy; USC School of Law
  "Varieties of Vagueness in the Law​"
  
  November 29, 2012
  Claire Finkelstein
  University of Pennsylvania Law School
  "Rational Contractarianism and International Law​​"
  
  November 15, 2012
  Kimberley Brownlee
  UCLA School of Law
  "What's Virtuous about the Law?​"
  
  November 1, 2012
  Michael Cholbi
  "Luck, Blame, and Blameworthiness​"
  California State Polytechnic University at Pomona
  
  October 18, 2012
  Theodore Bach
  Bowling Green State University Firelands
  "Gender Is a Natural Kind with a Historical Essence​"
  
  October 4, 2012
  James Nickel
  University of Miami School of Law
  "Personal Deserts and Human Rights​​"

• 2011 - 2012 Workshops

  April 26, 2012
  A.J. Julius
  UCLA Department of Philosophy
  "Public Transit"​
  
  April 12, 2012
  David Sussman
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  "Integrity, Luck, and the Unthinkable"
  
  March 8, 2012
  Samuel Bowles
  Santa Fe Institute
  University of Siena, Italy
  "Machiavelli's Mistake" and "Economic incentives and social preferences: substitutes or complements?"
  
  March 1, 2012
  John Goldberg
  Harvard Law School
  "The New Private Law"
  
  February 9, 2012
  Ronald Dworkin
  UCLA Law School
  New York University
  "Is There a Right to Religious Freedom?"
  
  January 26, 2012
  Benjamin Zipursky
  Fordham University School of Law
  "Civil Recourse, Substantive Standing, And Corrective Justice"
  
  January 19, 2012
  Japa Pallikkathayil
  New York University - Department of Philosophy
  "Persons and Bodies"
  
  February 16, 2012
  Amy Kapczynski
  Yale Law School
  "Nonexcludability and the Limits of Patents"
  
  November 10, 2011
  Aditi Bagchi
  University Of Pennsylvania Law School
  "Parallel Contract"
  
  November 3, 2011
  Arudra Burra
  UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
  "The Significance of Consent"
  
  October 20, 2011
  Jessie Hill
  Center for Social Justice
  Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  "(Dis)Owning Religious Speech"
  
  September 29, 2011
  Dennis Klimchuck
  University of Western Ontario
  "Is the Law of Equity Equitable in Aristotle's Sense"

• 2010 - 2011 Workshops

  April 14, 2011
  Nicos Stavropoulos
  University Lecturer in Legal Theory, University of Oxford
  "Legal Impact and the Legal Point of View"
  
  March 3, 2011
  Scott Hershovitz
  Professor of Law, the University Of Michigan Law Schoo
  "A Way Out of the Hart-Dworkin Debate"
  
  February 17, 2011
  Ronald Dworkin
  Distinguished Scholar in Residence, UCLA Law School
  Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy, New York University
  "Concepts of International Law"
  
  February 3, 2011
  Liam Murphy
  Professor of Law and Philosophy, New York University
  Chapters from a forthcoming book on Competing Theories of the Grounds of Law
  
  November 18, 2010
  David Plunkett
  Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
  "The Metaethical Role of Evaluative Attitudes"
  
  November 4, 2010
  Mitch Berman
  Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law, University Of Texas at Austin
  "Constitutional Interpretation: Non-originalism"
  
  October 14, 2010
  Ruth Chang
  Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers
  "Do We Have Normative Powers?"

• 2009 - 2010 Workshops

  April 15, 2010
  Ruth Gavison
  Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  "Taking States Seriously (TSS) and the Human Rights Discourse (HRD)"
  
  April 8, 2010
  Margaret P. Gilbert
  Abraham I. Melden Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
  "Three Dogmas about Promising"
  
  March 18, 2010
  Rainer Forst
  Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy, Goethe University, Frankfurt
  "Two Pictures of Justice" & "The Justification of Human Rights and the Basic Right to Justification. A Reflexive Approach"
  
  March 11, 2010
  Louis Michael Seidman
  Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center
  "Powell's Choice: The Law and Morality of Speech, Silence, and Resignation by High Government Officials"
  
  February 25, 2010
  Daniel Markovits
  Professor of Law, Yale Law School
  "Promise as an Arm's Length Relation" and "The Dual Performance Hypothesis and the Myth of Efficient Breach"
  
  February 11, 2010
  Gregory Keating
  William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
  "Is Tort a Remedial Institution?"
  
  January 28, 2010
  John Oberdiek
  Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law - Camden
  "The Moral Significance of Risking"
  
  January 14, 2010
  Carol Steiker
  Howard J. & Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  "The Death Penalty and Deontology"
  
  November 19, 2009
  Gideon Yaffe
  Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Southern California
  "Can We Try to Kill the Dead? De Dicto and De Re Intention in Attempted Crimes"
  
  November 5, 2009
  Louis-Philippe Hodgson
  Post-Doctoral Fellow, UCLA Law & Philosophy Program
  Professor of Philosophy, Glendon College
  "Personal Sovereignty and Legal Paternalism"
  
  October 22, 2009
  Adriaan Lanni
  Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  "Transitional Justice in Athens"

• 2008 - 2009 Workshops

  March 19, 2009
  Michael E. Bratman
  Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences & Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
  "Shared Valuing and Shared Policies of Acceptance"
  - related to Bratman's topic- Shapiro - Legality (Chapter VI & VII)
  
  March 3, 2009
  Ronald Dworkin
  Professor of Philosophy
  Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law, New York University
  "Ethics and Freedom"
  
  February 26, 2009
  Tim Scanlon
  Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Harvard University
  "When Does Equality Matter?"
  
  February 10, 2009
  Sharon Dolovich
  Professor of Law UCLA, School of Law
  "Cruelty, Prison Conditions, and the Eight Amendment"
  
  February 5, 2009
  Sari Kisilevsky
  Postdoctoral Scholar
  UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
  "Hard Cases and Legal Validity"
  
  November 20, 2008
  Louis-Philippe Hodgson
  Postdoctoral Scholar
  UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy Glendon College, York University
  "Collective Action and Contract Rights"
  
  October 30, 2008
  Trevor Morrison
  Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
  "Stare Decisis in the Office of Legal Counsel"
  
  October 9, 2008
  Robin Kar
  Professor of Law
  Deputy Director of Center for Interdisciplinary & Comparative Jurisprudence, Loyola Law School
  "Contractualism About Contract Law"

• 2007 - 2008 Workshops

  April 17, 2008
  Joshua Cohen
  Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law, Stanford University
  "Politics, Power, and Public Reason"
  
  April 10, 2008
  Sarah Song
  Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
  "Three Models of Civic Solidarity"
  
  March 20, 2008
  Stephen R. Perry
  John J. O'Brien Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy and Director, Institute for Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
  "Political Authority and Political Obligation"
  
  March 6, 2008
  Jessica Litman
  Professor of Law and Professor of Information, University of Michigan
  "Rethinking Copyright"
  
  February 28, 2008
  Judith J. Thomson
  Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Some Reflections on Hart on Honore, CAUSATION IN THE LAW"
  
  February 14, 2008
  Amy M. Adler
  Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
  "Against Moral Rights (in Visual Arts)"
  
  January 31, 2008
  Moshe Halbertal
  Professor, Hebrew University
  Gruss Professor, New York University School of Law
  "Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order"
  
  January 17, 2008
  Jennifer E. Rothman
  Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
  "Beyond Intimacy"
  
  November 15, 2007
  Martin Stone
  Professor of Law/Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University
  Visiting Professor of Law, University of Southern California
  "Positivism as Opposed to What: Law and Moral Concept of Right"
  
  November 1, 2007
  Gerald A. Cohen
  Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, University of Oxford
  "A Truth in Conservatism"
  
  October 4, 2007
  Matthew Adler
  Leon Meltzer Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
  "Well-Being, Inequality And Time: The Time-Slice Problem and Its Implications"

• 2006 - 2007 Workshops

  April 12, 2007
  David Enoch
  Associate Professor of Philosophy and Jacob I. Berman Associate Professor of Law, 
  "Intending, Foreseeing, and the State"
  
  March 22, 2007
  Daryl Levinson
  Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  "Personified Government and Constitutional Morality"
  
  March 8, 2007
  Rob Reich
  Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethics in Society, 
  "Philanthropy and its Uneasy Relation to Equality"
  "Toward a Political Theory of Philanthropy"
  
  March 1, 2007
  Carlos Rosenkrantz
  Professor of Law & Global Law Professor, University of Buenos Aires& New York University
  "Equality in Politics"
  
  February 15, 2007
  Sophia R. Moreau
  Professor of Law, University of Toronoto Law School
  "What is Discrimination?"
  
  February 1, 2007
  Frederick Schauer
  Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard University
  "Is There a Concept of Law?"
  
  January 18, 2007
  Stephen P. Garvey
  Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
  "Racism, Unreasonable Belief, and Bernhard Goetz"
  
  November 30, 2006
  Micah Schwartzman
  Society of Fellows, Columbia University
  "Judicial Sincerity"
  
  November 16, 2006
  Laura Rosenbury
  Associate Professor of Law, Washington University Law School
  "Friends with Benefits"
  
  October 26, 2006
  Ed Baker
  Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
  "Equality"
  
  September 21, 2006
  Larry Alexander
  Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law
  "Law's Limited Domain Confronts Morality's Universal Empire"

• 2005 - 2006 Workshops

  Thursday, April 20
  David A. Strauss
  Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law, University of Chicago
  "Must Like Cases Be Treated Alike?"
  
  Thursday, April 6
  Liam Murphy
  Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, New York University
  "What Matters? Morality and the Concept of Law
  
  Thursday, March 9
  Rebecca Tushnet
  Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
  "The First Amendment as Battery Acid: Regulating False Advertising Versus Protecting Free Speech"
  
  Thursday, February 23
  Daniel Markovits
  Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School
  "Toleration and Politics"
  
  Thursday, January 26
  Annelise Riles
  Professor of Law, Cornell University
  "Collateral Knowledge: Instrumental Reason, Market Sociality, Legal Subjectivity"
  
  Thursday, December 1
  Douglas A. Kysar
  Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School
  Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
  "It Might Have Been: Risk, Precaution, and the Opportunity Costs"
  
  November - date not known
  Scott J. Shapiro
  Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  "Interpretation and the Economy of Trust"
  
  Date not known
  Susan J. Brison
  Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
  "Allocating Responsibility for the Harmful Effects of Assaultive Speech"
  
  Thursday, October 6
  David Owens
  Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield 
  "The Validity of Promise"

• 2004 - 2005 Workshops

  March 31
  "It’s Not the Thought that Counts" 
  Deborah Hellman
  Professor of Law
  University of Maryland School of Law

  March 10
  "Equal Liberty"
  Lawrence G. Sager
  Professor of Law
  University of Texas School of Law

  February 24
  "Legal Positivism since H.L.A. Hart"
  Jules Coleman
  Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Philosophy
  Yale School of Law

  February 10
  Claire Finkelstein
  Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School
  "Responsibility of Unintended Consequences"

  January 20
  Mark G. Kelman
  Williams Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
  "The Interdependence of Irreconcilable Foundational Beliefs"

  December 2
  Anne M. Coughlin
  O.M. Vicars Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

  November 18
  Tommie Shelby
  Assistant Professor of Social Students and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
  "We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity"

  November 4
  Benjamin C. Zipursky
  Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
  "BMW v. Gore and the Double Aspect Problem in the Theory of Punitive Damages"

  October 28
  Heather K. Gerken
  Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  "Second Order Dissent"

  September 23
  Gideon Yaff
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Southern California Law School
  "The Government Beguiled Me": The Entrapment Defense and the Problem of Private Entrapment"

• Spring 2003 Workshops

  April 24
  Reva Siegel
  Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School
  "Legislative Constitutionalism and Section Five Power: Policentric Interpretation of the Family and Medical Leave Act"

  March 10
  Wendy J. Gordon
  Paul J. Liacos Scholar-in-Law Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
  "Excuse and Justification in the Law of Fair Use: Commodification and Market Perspectives"

  February 20
  Kathryn Abrams
  Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, Boalt Hall
  Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Ethics and Public Life, Cornell Law School
  "Changing the Subject: Agency, Law and Feminist Legal Theory"

  January 9
  Thomas C. Grey
  Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
  "Does Constitutional Judicial Review Undermine Legal Formalism?"