Legal Theory Calendar

Conference Today: Aliens and Nations at Keele

UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (ALSP) Conference

ALIENS AND NATIONS: CITIZENSHIP, SOVEREIGNTY AND GLOBAL POLITICS IN THE 21st CENTURY

Keele University, UK, 19th-21st April 2007

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Seyla Benhabib

Stephen Macedo

Bhikhu Parekh

Andy Dobson

Judith Squires

This international conference aims to stimulate debates about whether, given the daunting challenges of the 21st century, the nation-state is an outmoded concept. Global crime networks and international terrorists, for instance, defy the executive will of nation-states, while states' integrity seems sapped by porous borders, cultural conflict, and by breakaway or irredentist movements. These problems hit failed states hardest, but often defeat even well-ordered polities. At the same time, supra-national bodies like the UN have  proved largely impotent against the global challenges of cllimate change, capital mobility, nuclear proliferation, the AIDS pandemic, human rights abuses, and trafficking in drugs, weapons and persons. Contributors to this conference are invited to consider the role of the nation-state within these and other contemporary problems. How might our understanding of political values like democracy, sovereignty, justice and citizenship be transformed to fit a post-national world? Possible topics for papers include:

Justice, war and international intervention

immigration and border controls

multicultural citizenship

citizenship, loyalty and identity

environmental citizenship

nationhood, citizenship and self-determination

gendered citizenship and feminists critiques of law and sovereignty

outlaw states and international law

transnational jurisdiction, sovereignty and human rights

Paper/panel submissions:

Please send a title and abstract of c. 300 words to ALSP07@ilpj.keele.ac.uk by 15th December 2006

ALSP welcomes panel proposals of up to 3 papers.

Web site: http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/ALSP/

Conference organisers:

Glen Newey and Monica Mookherjee (SPIRE, Keele University).

Conference Today: Metaethics at Cambridge

One-day conference on METAETHICS

Topics in Metaethics are among the most discussed and contested topics in contemporary moral philosophy. In particular, there are three issues which are especially salient and will be the focus of this conference: moral realism/anti-realism, practical reason and normativity in ethics. The conference brings together leading contributors to the debates in Metaethics in order to consolidate and advance the positions held on these issues. The proceedings of the conference will be published as a special theme issue of the Journal of Moral Philosophy.

Date: 18th November 2006
Time: 10.30h-18.30h.
Venue: King’s College, Cambridge

Panel 1: Moral Realism Speakers: Prof. R. Shafer-Landau (Wisconsin); Dr. M. Ridge (Edinburgh)

Panel 2: Practical Reason Speakers: Prof. J. Broome (Oxford); Dr. A. Hills (Oxford; formerly Bristol)

Panel 3: Normativity in Ethics Speakers: Prof. O. O’Neill (Cambridge) Dr. T. Pink (King’s College London)

REGISTRATION FEE: £ 10.00 (WAGED)/£ 5.00 (UNWAGED). (Please note that neither fee includes lunch or dinner or any accommodation) The registration form and a provisional timetable can be found at

http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/ metaethics_nov06/metaethics_nov06.htm

The Conference is generously supported by the Research Centre of King’s College; the Mind Association; the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge; the Journal of Moral Philosophy; and the Analysis Trust. Any queries or questions should be directed to Fabian Freyenhagen (fcf21@cam.ac.uk).

Conference Today: Fletcher's Grammar of Criminal Law at Cardozo

On November 5 and 6, 2006, The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, the Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, and the Cardozo Law Review will present a conference on George P. Fletcher's forthcoming book, The Grammar of Criminal Law, American, European, International.

Like Rethinking Criminal Law -- Fletcher's groundbreaking work of 1978 -- The Grammar of Criminal Law examines crime and punishment from a philosophical and comparative law point of view.

Accordingly, the conference will feature commentary from philosophers, lawyers, and legal scholars from around the world.  The papers will be published in a symposium edition of The Cardozo Law Review.

We invite you to join us in New York on November 5th and 6th for two days of discussion and debate on the deep structure of criminal law .

Link to Conference Website.

Conference Today: Parfit Meets Critics at Reading

PARFIT MEETS CRITICS –
Critical Evaluations of Climbing the Mountain

University of Reading
Department of Philosophy
NOVEMBER 2–3, 2006

About the Conference: Derek Parfit's manuscript Climbing the Mountain has
been circulating for years and is now near completion and submission to
Oxford University Press. The eventual book is widely predicted to have a
significant impact on moral theory for years to come. It offers a novel
interpretation of Kantian ethics, and attempts to show that such a view is
also compatible with the best versions of both rule-consequentialism and
contractualism. This conference gives seven first-class ethicists an
opportunity to investigate Parfit's penultimate draft and try out
criticisms of it before its final submission. Parfit himself is extremely
keen to get this feedback on his manuscript even at this late stage in its
development, and will actively take part in the discussions at the
conference. The manuscript is downloadable from Derek Parfit’s website
(http://individual.utoronto.ca/stafforini/parfit/parfit_-_climbing_the_mountain.pdf).

Program:
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2
12am – 1pm                Registration
1pm – 2:30pm                JAMES LENMAN        (University of Sheffield)
2:45pm – 4:15pm                SEIRIOL MORGAN         (University of Leeds)

4:15pm – 4:45pm         Coffee and Tea
4:45pm – 6:15pm                JENS TIMMERMANN (University of St Andrews)
                         Parfit’s Kant
6:15pm – 7:45pm                Dinner
7:45pm – 9:15pm                GIDEON ROSEN (Princeton)

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3
1pm – 2:30pm                MICHAEL RIDGE         (University of Edinburgh)
            Parfit’s Kantian Contractualist Argument for Consequentialism
2:30pm – 3pm        Coffee and Tea
3pm – 4:30pm                MICHAEL SMITH         (Princeton)
4:45pm – 6:15pm                MICHAEL OTSUKA        (University College
London)
                         Climb Every Mountain?

This program is also available on-line at
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Phil/Conferences/Parfit%20conference.doc.

Location and Registration: The conference will take place at Room 106 in
the Palmer Building located at the Whiteknights Campus, University of
Reading. You can find a map of the venue and links for the instructions of
how to get there from http://www.info.rdg.ac.uk/maps/maps-display.asp.
Advance registrations for the conference can be sent by email to Jussi
Suikkanen (j.v.suikkanen@reading.ac.uk). There will be room for 50
participants. The conference fee will be £30 (£20 for students). It is
payable during the registration at the conference and includes the dinner
on Thursday. For links to reserve accomodation see the online version of
this advert. The Whiteknights Campus and its surroundings offer various
possibilities for having lunch, coffee, etc, during the stay. Further
information will be posted later.

Please direct any enquiries concerning the conference to Jussi Suikkanen at:
j.v.suikkanen@reading.ac.uk
Philosophy department
University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA
UK

Conference Today: Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

3rd Annual Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Weekend of October 21-22, 2006
To be held at the Faculty of Philosophy 10 Merton St., Oxford

A LIST OF SPEAKERS APPEARS BELOW (TIMES OF INDIVIDUAL PAPERS WILL BE POSTED ASAP)

Any queries, please email paul.lodge@mansfield.ox.ac.uk

Attendance at the seminar is free. However, those who intend to come are requested to notify the organizers by email (as above) in advance.

Papers to be presented

James Harris (University of St. Andrews) "Joseph Butler on the Authority of Conscience."

Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania) "Mental Acts and Mechanistic Psychology in Descartes’ Passions."

Des Hogan (Princeton University) "Metaphysical Motives of Kant’s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction."

Karolina Hubner (University of Chicago) "Spinoza and Human Ends."

Mark Kulstad (Rice University) "Leibniz on Expression: Reflection after Three Decades."

Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard University) "Berkeley, Human Agency, and Divine Concurrence."

Gregg Osborne (American University of Beirut) "Hume’s Argument in Treatise 1.3.3.3: An Exposition and Defense."

John Rogers (Keele University) "Locke’s Philosophical Legacy."

Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University) "Cartesian Passions as Representational Perceptions."

Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco) "Hume on Experimenting with the Passions."

Please note: there will be no accommodation arranged for the conference. Those wishing to attend may find the following websites useful

http://www.visitoxford.org/
http://www.stayoxford.co.uk/
http://www.oxfordcity.co.uk/oxford/home_accommodation.html

Conference Today: New Birth of Freedom at Toledo

"A New Birth of Freedom: The Thirteenth Amendment - Past, Present and Future"

Friday, October 13, 2006, University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, Ohio

The Thirteenth Amendment not only ended slavery in our country, but it represents a promise of freedom and justice for workers and racial minorities in this country.  This symposium will discuss the history of the amendment and its use by supporters of workers' rights and civil rights throughout our history.  It will also consider the as yet un-tapped potential of this amendment in the twenty-first century.  The symposium celebrates the fact that Representative James Ashley, long-time abolitionist and the member of the Reconstruction Congress who first drafted the Thirteenth Amendment, was from Toledo and represented Toledo in Congress.  Panelists will include Alex Tsesis, Paul Finkelman, Michael Les Benedict, Tobias Wolff, Imani Perry, James Gray Pope, Rebecca Zietlow, Lea Vander Velde, Risa Goluboff, Suzanne Jackson, Maria Ontiveros, Kathleen Kim and William Carter.

We are very excited about hosting this event and hope that you will consider attending and tell your colleagues.  For information, please contact Prof. Rebecca Zietlow at Rebecca.zietlow@utoledo.edu.

Conference Announcement: Fletcher's Grammar of Criminal Law at Cardozo

On November 5 and 6, 2006, The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, the Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, and the Cardozo Law Review will present a conference on George P. Fletcher's forthcoming book, The Grammar of Criminal Law, American, European, International.

Like Rethinking Criminal Law -- Fletcher's groundbreaking work of 1978 -- The Grammar of Criminal Law examines crime and punishment from a philosophical and comparative law point of view.

Accordingly, the conference will feature commentary from philosophers, lawyers, and legal scholars from around the world.  The papers will be published in a symposium edition of The Cardozo Law Review.

We invite you to join us in New York on November 5th and 6th for two days of discussion and debate on the deep structure of criminal law .

Conference Announcement: Aliens and Nations at Keele

CALL FOR PAPERS

UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (ALSP) Conference

ALIENS AND NATIONS: CITIZENSHIP, SOVEREIGNTY AND GLOBAL POLITICS IN THE 21st CENTURY

Keele University, UK, 19th-21st April 2007

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Seyla Benhabib

Stephen Macedo

Bhikhu Parekh

Andy Dobson

Judith Squires

This international conference aims to stimulate debates about whether, given the daunting challenges of the 21st century, the nation-state is an outmoded concept. Global crime networks and international terrorists, for instance, defy the executive will of nation-states, while states' integrity seems sapped by porous borders, cultural conflict, and by breakaway or irredentist movements. These problems hit failed states hardest, but often defeat even well-ordered polities. At the same time, supra-national bodies like the UN have  proved largely impotent against the global challenges of cllimate change, capital mobility, nuclear proliferation, the AIDS pandemic, human rights abuses, and trafficking in drugs, weapons and persons. Contributors to this conference are invited to consider the role of the nation-state within these and other contemporary problems. How might our understanding of political values like democracy, sovereignty, justice and citizenship be transformed to fit a post-national world? Possible topics for papers include:

Justice, war and international intervention

immigration and border controls

multicultural citizenship

citizenship, loyalty and identity

environmental citizenship

nationhood, citizenship and self-determination

gendered citizenship and feminists critiques of law and sovereignty

outlaw states and international law

transnational jurisdiction, sovereignty and human rights

Paper/panel submissions:

Please send a title and abstract of c. 300 words to ALSP07@ilpj.keele.ac.uk by 15th December 2006

ALSP welcomes panel proposals of up to 3 papers.

Web site: http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/ALSP/

Conference organisers:

Glen Newey and Monica Mookherjee (SPIRE, Keele University).

Conference Announcement: Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

3rd Annual Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Weekend of October 21-22, 2006
To be held at the Faculty of Philosophy 10 Merton St., Oxford

A LIST OF SPEAKERS APPEARS BELOW (TIMES OF INDIVIDUAL PAPERS WILL BE POSTED ASAP)

Any queries, please email paul.lodge@mansfield.ox.ac.uk

Attendance at the seminar is free. However, those who intend to come are requested to notify the organizers by email (as above) in advance.

Papers to be presented

James Harris (University of St. Andrews) "Joseph Butler on the Authority of Conscience."

Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania) "Mental Acts and Mechanistic Psychology in Descartes’ Passions."

Des Hogan (Princeton University) "Metaphysical Motives of Kant’s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction."

Karolina Hubner (University of Chicago) "Spinoza and Human Ends."

Mark Kulstad (Rice University) "Leibniz on Expression: Reflection after Three Decades."

Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard University) "Berkeley, Human Agency, and Divine Concurrence."

Gregg Osborne (American University of Beirut) "Hume’s Argument in Treatise 1.3.3.3: An Exposition and Defense."

John Rogers (Keele University) "Locke’s Philosophical Legacy."

Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University) "Cartesian Passions as Representational Perceptions."

Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco) "Hume on Experimenting with the Passions."

Please note: there will be no accommodation arranged for the conference. Those wishing to attend may find the following websites useful

http://www.visitoxford.org/
http://www.stayoxford.co.uk/
http://www.oxfordcity.co.uk/oxford/home_accommodation.html

Conference Announcement: Metaethics at Cambridge

One-day conference on METAETHICS

Topics in Metaethics are among the most discussed and contested topics in contemporary moral philosophy. In particular, there are three issues which are especially salient and will be the focus of this conference: moral realism/anti-realism, practical reason and normativity in ethics. The conference brings together leading contributors to the debates in Metaethics in order to consolidate and advance the positions held on these issues. The proceedings of the conference will be published as a special theme issue of the Journal of Moral Philosophy.

Date: 18th November 2006
Time: 10.30h-18.30h.
Venue: King’s College, Cambridge

Panel 1: Moral Realism Speakers: Prof. R. Shafer-Landau (Wisconsin); Dr. M. Ridge (Edinburgh)

Panel 2: Practical Reason Speakers: Prof. J. Broome (Oxford); Dr. A. Hills (Oxford; formerly Bristol)

Panel 3: Normativity in Ethics Speakers: Prof. O. O’Neill (Cambridge) Dr. T. Pink (King’s College London)

REGISTRATION FEE: £ 10.00 (WAGED)/£ 5.00 (UNWAGED). (Please note that neither fee includes lunch or dinner or any accommodation) The registration form and a provisional timetable can be found at

http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/ metaethics_nov06/metaethics_nov06.htm

The Conference is generously supported by the Research Centre of King’s College; the Mind Association; the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge; the Journal of Moral Philosophy; and the Analysis Trust. Any queries or questions should be directed to Fabian Freyenhagen (fcf21@cam.ac.uk).