INSTITUTE FOR LAW & PHILOSOPHY

The Institute for Law and Philosophy brings together a number of scholars in law, philosophy, and other disciplines 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. The Institute also hosts special conferences on specific topics in legal philosophy. Its mission is to provide a forum in which scholars working on theoretical topics in the law and related fields can exchange ideas on topics of mutual interest.

Claire Finkelstein, Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Philosophy
Stephen Perry, Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Philosophy
For further information: please contact Anna Gavin, Administrative Assistant, at agavin@law.upenn.edu.

All workshops are from 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. in Silverman Hall, Room 144 (Faculty lounge)

Fall 2009

Monday, October 5

David Estlund, Lombardo Family Professor of Philosophy, Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
4:30 PM, Silverman Hall, Room 144
Title: Liberal Associationism and the Rights of States
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Monday, November 9

Jules Coleman, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Philosophy, Yale Law School
4:30 PM, Silverman Hall, Room 144
Title: "The Normative Structure of Tort Law"
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Monday, November 30

Ben Zipursky, James H. Quinn ’49 Chair in Legal Ethics and Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
4:30 PM, Silverman Hall, Room 144
Title: "Wrongs, not Accidents: Civil Recourse and Civil Wrongs in the Law of Torts"
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Spring 2010

March 1

Arthur Ripstein, Professor of Law and of Philosophy, University of Toronto
4:30 PM, Silverman Hall, Room 144
Title: TBA

March 22

Sophia Moreau, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
4:30 PM, Silverman Hall, Room 144
Title: TBA

Monday, April 19

Nicos Stavropoulos, Lecturer in Legal Theory, University of Oxford
4:30 PM, Silverman Hall, Room 144
Title: TBA

January 22-23, 2010
Prioritarianism and Distributive Justice Roundtable

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