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Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory

Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory (Law 210.2)

Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory (Law 210.2) Schedule of Speakers

Spring Semester 2008

These meetings are held in the Dean's Seminar Room, Room 215B, Boalt Hall (see map) Thursdays from 1-4pm and are open to the campus community. * To request a copy of papers contact: curtinc@law.berkeley.edu.

The Workshop series did not meet for the Spring 2007 semester

Spring Semester 2006

WORKSHOP ARCHIVES
These meetings were held in the JSP Seminar Room, 2240 Piedmont Avenue (see map) Thursdays from 1-4pm and are open to the campus community. * To request a copy of papers contact: curtinc@law.berkeley.edu.

Jan. 19	Meir Dan-Cohen Milo Reese Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics - Boalt Hall University of California, Berkeley	REVISING THE PAST: ON THE METAPHYSICS OF REPENTANCE, FORGIVENESS, AND PARDON
Jan. 26	Charles Beitz Professor of Politics Princeton University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	Doubts About Democracy Please note that this paper is not available online. Send requests for hard copies to: curtinc@law.berkeley.edu 510-642-1769
Feb. 2	Lawrence Sager Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair University of Texas School of Law Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	Ten Commandments, Three Plastic Reindeer, and One Nation...Indivisible from Religious Liberty and the Constitution
Feb. 9	Kent Greenawalt University Professor Columbia University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	RELIGION AND THE EXEMPTION STRATEGY
Feb. 16	Tommie Shelby John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences and of African and African American Studies Harvard University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	JUSTICE, DEVIANCE, AND THE DARK GHETTO
Feb. 23	Rae Langton Professor of Philosophy MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	SPEAKER'S FREEDOM AND MAKER'S KNOWLEDGE
March 2	Hans Sluga Professor of Philosophy University of California, Berkeley	THE CARE OF THE COMMON
March 9	Wendy Brown Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley	SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED
March 16	Ian Shapiro Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director, Yale Center for International and Area Studies Yale University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	THE POLITICAL USES OF PUBLIC OPINION: LESSONS FROM THE ESTATE TAX REPEAL
March 23	Philip Pettit William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics Princeton University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	RESPONSIBILITY INCORPORATED
March 30	SPRING BREAK
April 6	Julie Tannenbaum Assistant Professor of Philosophy California State University, Northridge Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	THE "SHOULD" OF FULL PRACTICAL REASON
April 13	NO CLASS
April 20	Ruth Chang Associate Professor of Philosophy Rutgers University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL REASONS
SPRING SEMESTER 2005
Jan. 20	Victoria Kahn Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley	PROMISE V. CONTRACT: THE SOVEREIGN SUBJECT REVISITED
Jan. 27	Jeff McMahan Professor of Philosophy Rutgers University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	THE BASIS OF MORAL LIABILITY TO DEFENSIVE KILLING
Feb. 3	Stephen Sugarman Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall	THE FAILURE OF TORT THEORY
Feb. 10	Frances Kamm Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy Harvard University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	TERRORISM AND SEVERAL MORAL DISTINCTIONS
Feb. 17	Margaret Jane Radin W. Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law Stanford University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	MACHINE RULE: THE LATEST CHALLENGE TO LAW
Feb. 24	Samuel Freeman Steven F. Goldstone Term Professor of Philosophy and Law University of Pennsylvania Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND THE LAW OF PEOPLES
March 10	Christopher Kutz Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall	THE DIFFERENCE UNIFORMS MAKE: COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE IN CRIMINAL LAW AND WAR
March 17	Anne Alstott Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation Yale University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	NO EXIT: WHAT PARENTS OWE THEIR CHILDREN--AND WHAT SOCIETY OWES PARENTS
March 31	Dennis Thompson Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Harvard University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	WHO SHOULD GOVERN WHO GOVERNS?
April 7	Jodi Halpern Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities University of California, Berkeley	WHEN FEAR UNDERMINES AUTONOMY: CONCRETIZED EMOTIONS AND DELIBERATIVE INCAPACITY
April 14	Debra Satz Associate Professor of Philosophy Stanford University Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	INEQUALITIES IN SCHOOLING: THE CASE FOR DEMOCRATIC ADEQUACY
April 21	Rogers Smith Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science University of Pennsylvania Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Professor	PROVIDENTIALISM, FOREIGN POLICY, AND THE ETHICS OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE
The Workshop series did not meet for the Spring 2004 semester
SPRING 2003
Jan. 30	David Strauss Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law University of Chicago Law School	Must Like Cases Be Treated Alike?
Feb. 6	Richard Rorty Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy Stanford University	Trapped Between Kant and Dewey: The Current Situation of Moral Philosophy
Feb. 13	Martha Minow Professor of Law Harvard Law School	Public and Private Partnerships: Accounting for the New Religion
Feb. 20	John R. Searle Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language University of California, Berkeley	Rotterdam Lecture: Social Ontology and Political Power
Feb. 27	Judith Jarvis Thomson Professor of Philosophy M.I.T.	The Legacy of Principia
March 6	Judith Butler Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley	What Is Critique? An Essay on Foucault's Virtue
March 13	G.A. Cohen Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford University	Facts and Principles
March 20	Brian Barry Professor in Political Science and Philosophy Columbia University	Does Responsibility Undermine Equality?
April 3	Kathryn Abrams Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, School of Law (Boalt Hall) University of California, Berkeley	Sexual Harassment and the Politics of Shame: A Queer Feminist Intervention
April 10	Hanna Pitkin Professor Emerita of Political Science University of California, Berkeley	Question Authority
April 24	Joshua Cohen Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Political Science Stanford	Minimalism About Human Rights: The Most We Can Hope For?
May 1	Joseph L. Sax James H. House and Hiram Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, Emeritus School of Law (Boalt Hall) University of California, Berkeley	The Barnes Collection, The Dead Sea Scrolls, And Other Proprietary Puzzles
SPRING 2002
JAN 24	INTRODUCTION
JAN 31	Angela Harris Professor of Law School of Law (Boalt Hall)	Sustainablity and Socail Justice or, Political Economy for Crits
FEB 7	Thomas Nagel Professor of Philosophy and Law New York University	The Myth of Ownership
FEB 14	Seana Shiffrin Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law--UCLA Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Kadish Center	Speech, Death, and The Doctrine of Double Effect
FEB 21	Carol Clover Professor of Rhetoric and Scandinavian Studies--University California, Berkeley	Theories of the Case
FEB 28	Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr. Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity Harvard University	Moral Assessment and the Agent's Point of View
MAR 7	Owen Fiss Sterling Professor of Law Yale Law School	A Freedom Both Personal and Political
MAR 14	Lawrence Lessig Professor of Law Yale Law School	The Future of Ideas
MAR 21	NO CLASS MEETING
MAR 28	SPRING RECESS
APR 4	R. Jay Wallace Professor of Philosophy University of California, Berkeley	The Rightness of Acts and the Goodness of Lives
APR 11	Susan Okin Martha Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society Stanford University	Women’s Human Rights in the Late Twentieth Century: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
APR 18	Michael Sandel Professor of Government Harvard University	What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
APR 25	Don Herzog Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law University of Michigan	Cunning: Preliminary Considerations
MAY 2	Thomas Grey Sweitzer Professor of Law Stanford University	The New Formalism

* These meetings will be held in the Dean's Seminar Room, 215B Boalt Hall, and are open to the campus community. The Workshop is also offered as a course for credit (Law 210.2). In addition to attending the Thursday sessions, students enrolled in the course will also meet with Professors Rakowski and Scheffler on Tuesdays from 2:20-4:10 p.m. in the JSP Seminar Room, 2240 Piedmont Ave. Graduate students in departments outside the Law School are eligible to enroll. Those wishing to do so should attend the first class meeting on January 15, 2008 in the JSP Seminar Room.

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