Intellectual Life
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Genevieve Lakier, The University of Chicago Law School
141 Law BuildingThe Student Protests and the Failed Promise of Free Speech Maximalism on Campus Over the past decade or so, universities across the country have expended considerable symbolic and sometimes economic resources to affirm their commitment to a libertarian or speech-maximizing view of the campus as an expressive domain. They have insisted that, as educational institutions, […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Lara Buchak, Princeton University
141 Law Building & VirtualA Faithful Response to Disagreement Sometimes you encounter someone who is your intellectual equal and has roughly the same evidence you have, but who has come to a very different conclusion on the basis of that evidence. This is the setting for the peer disagreement debate. The question is how this encounter should change your […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Daniel Viehoff, University of California, Berkeley
141 Law BuildingAuthority and Control Authority – the power to decide how another is to act – is a valuable and ubiquitous tool for organizing our common life. Authority is also widely thought to be problematic, and in need of special justification. An account of authority should illuminate both of these features. Yet many existing philosophical discussions […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Deanna Kuhn, Columbia University
141 Law Building & VirtualIs Discourse the Way Out of Disagreement? Disagreement, both local and global, is at a record high. Communication between disagreeing parties is at a record low and likely not to […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Stephen Macedo, Princeton University
170 Law BuildingIn Covid’s Wake: How We Failed Liberalism Abstract The greatest global crisis since World War II, the Covid-19 pandemic put most of the world’s societies on a war footing. Fundamental […]
Berkeley Legal History Workshop Presents Patrick Weil
111 Law Building and VirtualPatrick Weil is an emeritus research professor of history at the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. From 2008 to 2023, he has been a visiting professor of law at Yale […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Helena Rosenblatt, The City University of New York
170 Law BuildingLiberal Political Economy on the Eve of the French Revolution: Jacques and Suzanne Necker, critics of laissez faire Abstract Takeaways (In lieu of an abstract): 1. Suzanne Necker has not […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Hanoch Dagan, Berkeley Law & Michael Heller, Columbia Law School
170 Law BuildingFreedom of Contract Abstract Freedom of Contract justifies enforcement of contract law through its role in enhancing individual autonomy defined as self-determination. The book addresses the big questions of contract theory, answers […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Anna Stilz, University of California, Berkeley
170 Law BuildingLenin's Theory of Self-Determination Abstract In the Marxist tradition, V. I. Lenin is associated with the thesis that all nations have the right to self-determination. Although self-determination had earlier philosophical […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Ricarda Hammer, University of California, Berkeley
170 Law BuildingATLANTIC RECONSTRUCTION: EMPIRE, RACE, AND THE MAKING OF POLITICAL PERSONHOOD Abstract This paper develops a Du Boisian theory of democratization, linking the formation of the rights-bearing person to the reimposition […]
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