All sessions for Spring 2026 will be held in person in Room 132, Law Building, on Fridays from 12:10 pm-2:00 pm. Papers for upcoming talks should become available to download in the table below one week before their respective colloquium dates and will be taken down after their colloquium has concluded. Please note that we can only distribute each paper during the week of its colloquium session.

See the schedule of presentations for Spring 2026.

About the colloquium:

A colloquium for presenting and discussing work in progress in moral, political, and legal theory. The central aim is to provide an opportunity for students, faculty, and members of the general public to engage with philosophers, political theorists, and legal scholars working on normative questions. Another aim is to bring together people from different disciplines who have strong normative interests or who speak to issues of potential interest to philosophers and political theorists.

The theme for Spring 2026 is recent work in legal and political philosophy and we will host scholars working in Philosophy, Law, and Political Science. We have no specific theme for this term’s colloquium, but we wanted to highlight the best recent work by more junior scholars (i.e., those who received their doctorates within the last decade) working in political philosophy, jurisprudence, and legal theory.

This semester, the colloquium is co-organized by Josh Cohen and David Singh Grewal.