WORKSHOP IN LAW, PHILOSOPHY, AND POLITICAL THEORY (Law 210.2)
Fall Semester 2021
All sessions for Fall 2021 will be held in person and online via Zoom. Students enrolled in the course will be attending the seminar in person in room 141 Law Building. (unless otherwise noted*), Fridays from 12:15 pm-2:00 pm. Papers for upcoming talks are available to download in the table below. Alternatively, copies of papers may be requested by contacting Rawan Mohsen at rmohsen@berkeley.edu.
The full Fall 2021 workshop schedule is available for download here.
Course description:
This course is a workshop for discussing work-in-progress in moral, political, and legal theory. The central aim is to enable students to engage directly with legal scholars, philosophers, and political theorists working on important normative questions. Another aim is to bring together scholars from different disciplines and perspectives, such as economics, history, sociology, and political science, who have normative interests.
The theme for the Fall 2021 workshop is Rawls’s A Theory of Justice fifty years on.
The format of the course is as follows: for the sessions with guest presenters, a designated student commentator will lead off with a 15-minute comment on the paper. The presenter will have 5-10 minutes to respond and then we will open up the discussion to the group. The first part of the course will be open to non-enrolled students, faculty, and visitors who wish to participate in the workshop discussion. We’ll stop for a break at 2:00 and those not enrolled in the course will leave. Enrolled students will continue the discussion with the guest until 3:00.
This is a cross-listed/room-shared course with the Philosophy and Political Science Departments. Students may enroll through Law (Law 210.2), Philosophy (Philosophy 290-09), or Political Science (PS 211). The first class will be on Friday, August 20th – 12PM-PM, and the final class meeting is on November 19th.
This semester the workshop is co-taught by Joshua Cohen and Veronique Munoz-Darde
| Aug. 20 |
Introduction (Enrolled Students Only) |
Instructors: Professor Veronique Munoz-Darde munoz_darde@berkeley.edu |
| Aug. 27 |
Lara Buchak, Philosophy, Princeton University |
Philosophical Foundation for Worst-Case Arguments
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| Sep. 3 |
Thomas Piketty, Economics, EHESS & the Paris School of Economics |
Elements for a Participatory Socialism for the 21st century |
| Sep. 10 |
Samuel Scheffler, Philosophy, New York University |
Moral Independence Revisited: A Note on the Development of Rawls’s Thought from 1977-1980 and Beyond
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| Sep. 17 |
Samuel Freeman, Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania |
Ideal Theory and Racial Justice: On Charles Mills’ Tanner Lecture |
| Sep. 24 |
Sarah Song, Law and Political Science, UC Berkeley |
Immigrant Legalization: A Dilemma between Inclusion and the Rule of Law? |
| Oct. 1 |
Tommie Shelby, Philosophy, Harvard University |
Race, Rectification, and Justice as Fairness |
| Oct. 8 |
Seana Shiffrin, Philosophy and Law, UCLA Law |
Democratic Politics: Duty Delegation without Abdication |
| Oct. 15 |
T. M. Scanlon, Philosophy, Harvard University |
Testimony of An Incomplete Rawlsian |
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Oct. 22 |
Arthur Ripstein, Law and Philosophy, University of Toronto |
Private Order and Public Justice: Kant and Rawls |
| Oct. 29 |
Teresa Bejan, Political Theory, University of Oxford |
Peers and Equals |
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Nov. 5 |
Erin Kelly, Philosophy, Tufts University |
Accountability in Criminal Justice: Lessons from Rawls |
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Nov. 12 |
Josh Cohen, Philosophy, UC Berkeley |
The Fragility of Democracy |
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Nov. 19 |
Kenzie Bok, Social Studies, Harvard University |
Rawlsian Liberalism: Freedom After Gracea |