The Legal Theory Workshop series, which is offered regularly throughout the year, brings prominent speakers from other universities. Students are encouraged to attend.
Workshop Speakers
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2024-25 Speakers
October 10, 2024
David Enoch
University of Oxford and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Foreseeing Intended Harm: When Do Expected in-bello Violations Undermine ad-bellum Justification?" (with Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis)
February 13, 2025
Ariana Peruzzi
UCLA School of Law
"When the Law is Absurd"
February 27, 2025
Selim Berker
Harvard University
March 13, 2025
Conor Crummey
Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology
April 3, 2025
Mark Schroeder
University of Southern California
April 17, 2025
Ruth Chang
University of Oxford
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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 DeceptionMarch 23, 2023
Nina Varsava
University of Wisconsin Law SchoolMarch 9, 2023
Brian Epstein
Tufts University, PhilosophyFebruary 23, 2023
Thomas Byrne
UCLAFebruary 9, 2023
Vishnu Sridharan
UCLAOctober 13, 2022
Gideon Yaffe
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale
Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology, Yale
The Inadmissibility of Guilt Rate EvidenceSeptember 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 ConceptionsMarch 31, 2022
Felipe Jimenez
Assistant Professor of Law and Philosophy, USC Gould School of Law
Legality, Legal Obligation, and CommitmentMarch 10, 2022
Christopher Lewis
Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Adaner Usmani
Assistant Professor of Sociology & Social Studies, Harvard University
The Injustice of UnderpolicingFebraury 24, 2022
Zoë Sinel
Associate Professor and Faculty Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario
Just Feelings: A Tort Law Theory of EmotionFebruary 10, 2022
Benjamin Eidelson
Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Respect, Offense, and the Etiquette of EqualityJanuary 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 ExemptionsNovember 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 AdjudicationOctober 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 SouthSeptember 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 LegalApril 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 RightsMarch 4, 2021
Asya Passinsky
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Norm and Object: A Normative Hylomorphic Theory of Social ObjectsFebruary 18, 2021
Jonathan Schaffer
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
No Money, No Women; Or: Social Relationalism as the Best Solution to Grid CollisionNovember 12, 2020
Andrew Currie
Law & Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
Interpretation and InconsistencyOctober 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 UniversityApril 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 LawMarch 21, 2019
Mitchell Berman
Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolMarch 7, 2019
Sarah Moss
Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, University of MichiganFebruary 21, 2019
Gideon Rosen
Philosophy Department Chair and Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton UniversityFebruary 7, 2019
Richard Fallon
Story Professor of Law and an Affiliate Professor in the Government Department, Harvard Law SchoolNovember 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"PennsylvaniaJanuary 25, 2018
Anna Stilz
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Human Values, Department of Politics, Princeton "Theorizing Collective Self-Determination"UniversityNovember 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 LawMarch 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 LawMarch 10
"Equal Liberty"
Lawrence G. Sager
Professor of Law
University of Texas School of LawFebruary 24
"Legal Positivism since H.L.A. Hart"
Jules Coleman
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Philosophy
Yale School of LawFebruary 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 LawNovember 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?"