Intellectual Life
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JSP Student Forum | Sid Schlafman, “Save Our Children”: LGBT Law, Fantasy, and the Figurative Child
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJSP Forum is a workshop series in which students in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy PhD program present works in progress. All are invited and welcome to attend. On Thursday, March 13, Sid Schlafman will present a draft paper, “Save Our Children”: LGBT Law, Fantasy, and the Figurative Child" with faculty discussant Chris Tomlins and […]
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Berkeley Legal History Workshop Welcomes Gregory Ablavsky
111 Law Building and VirtualPrior to joining the Stanford Law faculty in 2015, Professor Ablavsky was the Sharswood Fellow in Law and History at the University of Pennsylvania. He clerked for Judge Anthony Scirica of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was also a law clerk for the Native American Rights Fund in Washington, D.C. […]
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Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Patrick Deneen, University of Notre Dame
170 Law BuildingCold War Right Liberalism: The Case of Leo Strauss and the Straussians Abstract Recently, Samuel Moyn of Yale University has contended that the left is suffering under truncated political ambitions due to the baleful influence of the intellectual architects of Cold War Liberalism. In this paper I argue that his diagnosis of the left applies […]
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CSLS Speaker Series – “Expressive Law, Social Norms, and Inequality”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Catherine Albiston, Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director of CSLS, Berkeley Law Abstract: Law and society scholars have long been interested in whether law can change society. Empirical evidence is decidedly mixed, and several studies show that laws meant to reduce inequality have not lived up to their […]
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A Critical History of Contemporary Art in Nicaragua
Virtual (Zoom)La Alianza and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLASC) invite you to a virtual presentation by Gabriel Pérez Setright. Pérez Setright will provide an overview of the development of cultural art institutions in Nicaragua, highlighting their enterprise to depoliticize artistic practices and preserve dominant structures. This critical art history is divided into […]
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Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Dr. James Orr, Cambridge University
170 Law BuildingThe Twilight of Liberalism: The Eclipse of Freedom in An Age of Autonomy Abstract This paper argues that the faltering trajectory of political liberalism arises not from external challenges but from conceptual tensions in its founding principles. Section 1 contests the dominant narrative of liberalism’s emergence in the seventeenth century, revealing its dependence on a […]
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Berkeley Legal History Workshop Welcomes Felipe Ford Cole
111 Law Building and VirtualFelipe Ford Cole joined Boston College Law as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2022. He studies how the law shapes the balance between sovereign power and the power conferred to private capital in local, national, and international contexts. As a comparative legal historian, Professor Cole’s research focuses on the historical evolution of this balance […]
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Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago
170 Law BuildingToward a Freedom-Centered Feminist Historiography Abstract This paper engages debates about the relationship between past and present feminisms to explore the political stakes of historiographic practice. The received metaphor for describing this relationship, “the waves of feminism,” is woefully inadequate for capturing the complex history of diverse struggles, generating deep dissent about who and what […]
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Berkeley Law, Economics, and Social Science Workshop with Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJoin us for an engaging interdisciplinary workshop where faculty and students explore cutting-edge research at the intersection of law, economics, and social sciences. This event is open to the academic community and will feature insights from leading experts. Date: Friday, 4/11 | Time: 12:10 – 2:10 PM Location: Selznick Seminar Room (JSP Building, 2240 Piedmont Avenue) Speaker: […]
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Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Michelle Schwarze, University of Wisconsin-Madison
170 Law BuildingAfter Liberal Utopia: Judith Shklar on Injustice, Pessimism, and Political Reform Abstract Judith Shklar’s “liberalism of fear” has captivated interpreters since its original publication nearly 60 years ago. However, as Forrester (2011) has argued, the focus on this text has wrongly cast her as a Cold War liberal solely focused on a negative conception of […]
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CSLS Speaker Series: “The Social Architecture of Moral Judgment: How Responsibility and Group Structure Shape Collective Decisions”
Philip Selznick Seminar Room 2240 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFeaturing Diag Davenport, Assistant Professor of Technology Policy, Governance, and Society, Goldman School of Public Policy and School of Information, UC Berkeley Abstract: Moral decisions are often treated as private judgments—but in many of society’s most consequential contexts, they are shaped by collective structures that subtly alter how people vote and what they come to […]
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Berkeley Legal History Workshop Presents Alexander Arnold
111 Law Building“So, to the Country”: Truth-Seeking and the Birth of the Common Law Alexander Arnold is an Assistant Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, where he teaches courses […]
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