Spring 2012

January 19, 2012
Japa Pallikkathayil
"Persons and Bodies"
New York University - Department of Philosophy
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314

January 26, 2012
Benjamin Zipursky
"Civil Recourse, Substantive Standing, And Corrective Justice"
Fordham University School of Law
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314

February 9, 2012
Ronald Dworkin
"Is There a Right to Religious Freedom?"
Background reading: "Religion Without God" 
UCLA Law School
New York University
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314

February 16, 2012
Amy Kapczynski
"Nonexcludability and the Limits of Patents"
Yale Law School
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314

March 1, 2012
John Goldberg
"The New Private Law"
Harvard Law School
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314

March 8, 2012*
Samuel Bowles
"Machiavelli's Mistake" (pp. 1-12) and "Economic incentives and social preferences: substitutes or complements?" (pp. 1-11, 22-41)
Santa Fe Institute
University of Siena, Italy
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314
*Joint session with the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Colloquium.

March 22, 2012 (CANCELED)
Leslie Kendrick
"Speech, Intent, and the Chilling Effect"
University Of Virginia School of Law
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314

April 12, 2012
David Sussman
"Integrity, Luck, and the Unthinkable"
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314 ​

April 26, 2012
A.J. Julius
"Public Transit"​
UCLA Department of Philosophy
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314 

Fall 2011

September 29, 2011
Dennis Klimchuck
"Is the Law of Equity Equitable in Aristotle's Sense"
University of Western Ontario
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 2326

October 20, 2011
Jessie Hill
"(Dis)Owning Religious Speech"
Center for Social Justice
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314

November 3, 2011
Arudra Burra
"The Significance of Consent"
UCLA Law and Philosophy Program
4:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m., Law 1314
*Please note different starting time

November 10, 2011
Aditi Bagchi
"Parallel Contract"
University Of Pennsylvania Law School
5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Law 1314​

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"