INSTITUTE FOR LAW & PHILOSOPHYThe University of Pennsylvania Law School has one of the most active programs anywhere in law and philosophy, and encourages interdisciplinary work with Penn's philosophy department, as well as with the numerous philosophy departments at other universities in the area. The Institute for Law and Philosophy brings together a large number of scholars for the purpose of discussing the application of legal theory to contemporary legal, moral and political issues. Topics are debated and discussed at the Institute's regularly scheduled faculty workshops, featuring guest speakers who present papers on their current research interests. Stephen Perry,
Director of the
Institute for
Law & Philosophy FALL 2007Monday, October 15Professor Robert Paul Wolff, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst Tuesday, October 30Professor Jeff McMahan, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University - New Brunswick Thursday, December 6Professor David Enoch, Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University SPRING 2008Monday, February 11Professor John Gardner, Professor of Jurisprudence, Oxford University Monday, March 3Professor Christopher Kutz, Boalt Hall Law School, University of California at Berkeley Monday, April 7Professor Jody Kraus, University of Virginia Law School FALL 2006Thursday, October 19Professor Susan Haack, Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Miami Monday, October 30Professor Les Green,Professor of Law and Philosophy, Osgoode Hall Law Thursday, November 30Professor Jules Coleman, Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Philosophy, Yale Law School Tuesday, December 12Professor Jeremy Waldron, NYU Law School SPRING 2007Monday, February 5Professor Peter Benson, University of Toronto Law School Monday, March 12Professor Brian Leiter, Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Texas Law School Monday, March 26Professor Michael Green of William and Mary Law School Monday, April 9Cancelled: To be rescheduled for the Fall Semester, 2007 Wednesday, April 18Professor Michael Moore, Charles R. Walgreen Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law CONFERENCES 2006-2007FRIDAY, MAY 18 - SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2007Conference on Sharp Boundaries and the Law In recent years an interesting problem has independently attracted the attention of both philosophers and legal scholars. The problem, simply put, is why legal and moral concepts tend to have fairly sharp boundaries when the reality on which they are imposed does not. Most phenomena, on close scrutiny, seem to present themselves along a continuum. Things aren't just hot or cold, good or bad, hairy or bald: Temperature, goodness, and baldness seem, rather, to be a matter of degree. But most of the time both law and morality proceed as though they were not. Those who argue against abortion assume that there is a magic point at which life starts. Those who wish to distinguish between informed and uninformed consent assume that there is a magic point at which informedness ends and ignorance begins, or at which voluntariness ends and coercion begins. Much of the difficulty we have with moral and legal decision-making seems to derive from the insistence on this assumption. The aim of this conference, which will take the form of a roundtable discussion of previously distributed readings, is to bring together people working in different fields whose work has bearing on this issue. Conference Organizer: Professor Leo Katz TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2007Second Annual PENN-UNAM Conference Session I: 10 a.m. - 12 noon Session II: 1:30 - 3:30pm Session III: 3:45 - 5:45pm This conference is being cosponsored by: Saturday, March 24, 2007A Conference on Justice and the Social Contract |
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