Spring 2011
February 3, 2011
Liam Murphy
Professor of Law and Philosophy, New York University
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 1314
Chapters from a forthcoming book on Competing Theories of the Grounds of Law
February 17, 2011
Ronald Dworkin
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, UCLA Law School
Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy, New York University
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 1314
"Concepts of International Law"
March 3, 2011
Scott Hershovitz
Professor of Law, the University Of Michigan Law School
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 1314
"A Way Out of the Hart-Dworkin Debate"
April 14, 2011
Nicos Stavropoulos
University Lecturer in Legal Theory, University of Oxford
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 1314
"Legal Impact and the Legal Point of View"
Fall 2010
October 14, 2010
Ruth Chang
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
"Do We Have Normative Powers?"
November 4, 2010
Mitch Berman
Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law, University Of Texas at Austin
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
"Constitutional Interpretation: Non-originalism"
November 18, 2010
David Plunkett
Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
"The Metaethical Role of Evaluative Attitudes"
Spring 2010
January 14, 2010
Carol Steiker
Howard J. & Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
The Death Penalty and Deontology
January 28, 2010
John Oberdiek
Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law - Camden
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
The Moral Significance of Risking
February 11, 2010
Gregory Keating
William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
Is Tort a Remedial Institution?
February 25, 2010
Daniel Markovits
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
"Promise as an Arm's Length Relation" and "The Dual Performance Hypothesis and the Myth of Efficient Breach"
March 11, 2010
Louis Michael Seidman
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
Powell’s Choice: The Law and Morality of Speech, Silence, and Resignation by High Government Officials
March 18, 2010
Rainer Forst
Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy, Goethe University, Frankfurt
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
Two Pictures of Justice
&
The Justification of Human Rights and the Basic Right to Justification. A Reflexive Approach
April 8, 2010
Margaret P. Gilbert
Abraham I. Melden Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
Three Dogmas about Promising
April 15, 2010
Ruth Gavison
Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
Taking States Seriously (TSS) and the Human Rights Discourse (HRD)
Fall 2009
October 22, 2009
Adriaan Lanni
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
Transitional Justice in Athens
November 5, 2009
Louis-Philippe Hodgson
Post-Doctoral Fellow, UCLA Law & Philosophy Program
Professor of Philosophy, Glendon College
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
Personal Sovereignty and Legal Paternalism
November 19, 2009
Gideon Yaffe
Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Southern California
4:50 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Law 2448
Can We Try to Kill the Dead? De Dicto and De Re Intention in Attempted Crimes
Spring 2009
February 5, 2009
Sari Kisilevsky
Postdoctoral Scholar
UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
4:55-6:30. Room 2326
Hard Cases and Legal Validity
February 10, 2009
Sharon Dolovich
Professor of Law
UCLA, School of Law
4:55-6:30. Room 2326
Cruelty, Prison Conditions, and the Eight Amendment
February 26, 2009
Tim Scanlon
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity
Harvard University
5:00-6:30. Location: Library Tower (4th floor)
When Does Equality Matter?
March 3, 2009*
Ronald Dworkin
Professor of Philosophy
Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law
New York University
5:00-6:30. Room 2448
Ethics and Freedom
*Ronald Dworkin's workshop will take place on Tuesday in room 2448
March 19, 2009
Michael E. Bratman
Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
& Professor of Philosophy
Stanford University
5:00-6:30. Library Tower (4th floor)
Shared Valuing and Shared Policies of Acceptance
- related to Bratman's topic-
Shapiro- Legality (Chapter VI & VII)
Fall 2008
October 9, 2008
Robin Kar
Professor of Law
Deputy Director of Center for Interdisciplinary
& Comparative Jurisprudence
Loyola Law School
4:30-6:15 pm. Room 2326
Contractualism About Contract Law
October 30, 2008
Trevor Morrison
Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
4:30-6:15 pm. Room 2326
Stare Decisis in the Office of Legal Counsel
November 20, 2008
Louis-Philippe Hodgson
Postdoctoral Scholar
UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Glendon College, York University
4:30-6:15 pm. Room 2326
Collective Action and Contract Rights
Spring 2008
January 17, 2008
Jennifer E. Rothman
Associate Professor of Law
Loyola Law School
Beyond Intimacy
January 31, 2008
Moshe Halbertal
Professor, Hebrew University
Gruss Professor, New York University School of Law
Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order
February 14, 2008
Amy M. Adler
Professor of Law
New York University Schoolof Law
Against Moral Rights (in Visual Arts)
February 28, 2008
Judith J. Thomson
Professor of Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Some Reflections on Hart on Honore, CAUSATION IN THE LAW
March 6, 2008
Jessica Litman
Professor of Law and Professor of Information
University of Michigan
Rethinking Copyright
March 20, 2008
Stephen R. Perry
John J. O’Brien Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy
Director, Institute for Law and Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania
Political Authority and Political Obligation - Please email nguyenm@law.ucla.edu for a copy of the paper.
April 10, 2008
Sarah Song
Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Three Models of Civic Solidarity
April 17, 2008
Joshua Cohen
Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law
Stanford University
Politics, Power, and Public Reason
Fall 2007
October 4, 2007
Matthew Adler
Leon Meltzer Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
4:15-6:00 pm Room 2326
Well-Being, Inequality And Time: The Time-Slice Problem and Its Implications
November 1, 2007
Gerald A. Cohen
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory
All Souls College, University of Oxford
4:15pm-6:00pm The Library Tower Room
A Truth in Conservatism
November 15, 2007
Martin Stone
Professor of Law/Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University
Visiting Professor of Law, University of Southern California
Positivism as Opposed to What: Law and Moral Concept of Right.
Spring 2007
January 18, 2007
Stephen P. Garvey
Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
4:30pm-6:15pm Room 2326
Racism, Unreasonable Belief, and Bernhard Goetz*
February 1, 2007
Frederick Schauer
Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment
Harvard University
4:30pm-6:15pm Room 2326
Is There a Concept of Law?
February 15, 2007
Sophia R. Moreau
Professor of Law
University of Toronoto Law School
4:30pm-6:15pm Room 2326
What is Discrimination?
March 1, 2007
Carlos Rosenkrantz
Professor of Law & Global Law Professor
University of Buenos Aires &
New York University
4:30pm-6:15pm Room 2326
Co-sponsored by the Program on Argentina of the UCLA Latin American Center
Equality in Politics
March 8, 2007
Rob Reich
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethics in Society
Stanford University
4:30pm-6:15pm Room 2326
(Joint Session with Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium)
Philanthropy and its Uneasy Relation to Equality
Toward a Political Theory of Philanthropy
March 22, 2007
Daryl Levinson
Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
4:30pm-6:15pm Library Tower
Personified Government and Constitutional Morality
April 12, 2007
David Enoch
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Jacob I. Berman Associate Professor of Law
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
4:30pm-6:15pm Room 2326
Intending, Foreseeing, and the State
Fall 2006
September 21, 2006
Larry Alexander
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law
4:15pm-6:00pm Law Library Tower
Law’s Limited Domain Confronts Morality’s Universal Empire
October 26, 2006
Ed Baker
Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
4:15pm-6:00pm Room 2326
Equality
November 16, 2006
Laura Rosenbury
Associate Professor of Law
Washington University Law School
4:15pm-6:00pm Room 2326
Friends with Benefits
November 30, 2006
Micah Schwartzman
Society of Fellows
Columbia University
4:15pm-6:00pm Room 2326
Judicial Sincerity