Spring 2016

January 22
202 Barrows Hall
Professors Cohen
and Kinch Hoekstra

Introductory meeting
(for enrolled students only)

 

January 29
202 Barrows Hall
Barbara Fried
Stanford University
School of Law

“Facing Up to Risk”

 

February 5
202 Barrows Hall

Melissa Schwartzberg
New York University
Department of Politics

“Civil Juries and Democratic Legitimacy”

February 12
Location:
Warren Room in Boalt Hall
(295 Simon)

Aziz Rana
Cornell University
School of Law

“The Rise of the Constitution”
Paper available to enrolled students, to request a copy contact: amatullahas@berkeley.edu

Author’s Note

 

February 19
202 Barrows Hall
Tania Lombrozo
UC Berkeley
Psychology

“Wrong or Merely Prohibited_Special Treatment of Strict Liability in Intuitive Moral Judgment”

 

February 26
202 Barrows Hall

Brian Leiter,
University of Chicago
School of Law

THE DEATH OF GOD AND THE DEATH OF MORALITY

 

March 4
202 Barrows Hall
Jason Frank
Cornell University
Government

“Tocqueville’s Religious Dread”

 

March 11
202 Barrows Hall
Rob Reich
Stanford University
Political Science

Repugnant to the Whole Idea of Democracy_On the Role of Foundations in Democratic Societies”

Note and Abstract

March 18
202 Barrows Hall
Pranab Bardhan
UC Berkeley
Economics

“The State and Economic Development”

Abstract

April 1
126 Barrows Hall
Note room change
Glenn Loury
Brown University
Economics

Revised Title: Changing My Mind about
Racial
Inequality in 21st Century America
(Or, What’s a Self-Respecting Black
Intellectual to Do?)”

For copies of the paper email: amatullahas@berkeley.edu

April 8
202 Barrows Hall
Pamela Hieronymi
UCLA
Philosophy

Standpoints and Freedom

Handout

April 15
202 Barrows Hall
Hélène Landemore
Yale
Political Science

April 22
202 Barrows Hall
Mark Greenberg
UCLA Law and Philosophy

“Principles of Legal Interpretation”
Paper is available to workshop participants only.
For copies of the paper email: amatullahas@berkeley.edu
April 29
202 Barrows Hall

Professors Cohen and
Kinch Hoekstra

Final meeting
(for enrolled students only)