Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Law 210.2B – Spring Semester 2023
All sessions for Spring 2023 will be held 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 Jennifer McBride at jrmcbride@berkeley.edu.
The full Spring 2023 workshop schedule is available for download here.
Course Description:
This course is a workshop for discussing works in progress in moral, political, and legal theory. The workshop creates a space for students to engage directly with philosophers, political theorists, and legal scholars working on normative questions toward the goal of fostering critical thinking about concepts of value and developing analytical thinking and writing skills. Another aim is to bring together people from different disciplines and perspectives who have strong normative interests or who speak to issues philosophers and theorists should know something about.
For Spring 2023, the workshop will focus on the intersection of religion with law, politics, and philosophy.
This semester the workshop is co-taught by Jonathan Gould and Josh Cohen.
The format of the course is as follows. 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 all, including non-enrolled students, faculty, and visitors who wish to participate in the workshop discussion. We’ll stop for a break and those not enrolled in the course will leave. Enrolled students will continue the discussion with the guest for the last 50 minutes.
This is a shared seating course between the Law School (Law 210.2B), the Philosophy Department (Philosophy 290-7), and the Political Science Department (PS 211).
Zoom is available for those that cannot attend in Person.
Zoom link to join: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96186188451(opens in a new tab)
| Jan. 13 |
Introduction (Enrolled Students Only) |
Instructors: Professor Josh Cohen joshua_cohen@apple.com |
| Jan. 20 | Alan Patten(opens in a new tab), Politics, Princeton University |
Religious Liberty in the Time of Pandemic |
| Jan. 27 | Melissa Lane(opens in a new tab), Weinstein fellow, Politics, Princeton University |
Plato on Rule and Office: The Value and Limits of Proceduralism |
| Feb. 3 | Intisar Rabb(opens in a new tab), Law and History, Harvard Law |
Metacanons: Comparative Textualism |
| Feb. 10 | Kevin Vallier(opens in a new tab), Philosophy, Bowling Green State University |
Is Catholic Integralism Just? Assessing Religious Postliberal Alternatives to Liberalism |
| Feb. 17 | Thomas Pink(opens in a new tab), Philosophy, King’s College London |
Natural Law and the Nature of Obligation |
| Feb. 24 | Michael McConnell(opens in a new tab), Law, Stanford University |
Disestablishment in the States |
| Mar. 3 | Elizabeth Sepper(opens in a new tab), Law, University of Texas |
Government’s Religious Hospitals |
| Mar. 10 | Michele Margolis(opens in a new tab), Political Science, University of Pennsylvania |
Sensitive Snowflakes? Understanding Perceived Discrimination Against Christians |
| Mar. 17 | David Hollinger(opens in a new tab), History, UC Berkeley |
Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular |
| Mar. 24 | Khaled Abou El Fadl(opens in a new tab), Law, UCLA |
The Aborted Spring and Islamic Exceptionalism |
| Mar. 31 |
Spring Break – No Workshop |
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| Apr. 7 | Nelson Tebbe(opens in a new tab), Law, Cornell University |
Reestablishing Religion |
| Apr. 14 | Ronit Stahl(opens in a new tab), History, UC Berkeley |
Strings Attached? Government Funding and Religious Hospitals |
| Apr. 21 | Ayelet Shachar(opens in a new tab), Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs, University of Toronto |
Solidarity in Place? Hope and Despair in Postpandemic Membership |