Please join us for stimulating conversation and lunch in the faculty lounge on Wednesday, March 4th at Noon.

Ongoing speaker series hosted by the Institute of Law & Philosophy

Professor Johann Frick

Ongoing speaker series hosted by the Institute of Law & Philosophy

Professor Johann Frick

“Democratic Legitimacy for Skeptics”
for a copy of the paper please email: eaulepp@law.upenn.edu

Professor Leo Katz will discuss his paper, “Deontology Justified.”

Dr. Frederick Wilmot-Smith is a Fellow of All Souls College, in the University of Oxford.

Thomas Hurka is the Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto.  In the spring of 2016 he will be a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. Professor Hurka will present his paper “More Seriously Wrong.”

David Enoch holds the Rodney Blackman Chair in the Philosophy of Law at Hebrew University, and in the fall of 2015 will be a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School. Professor Enoch will be presenting his paper “The Normative (In)Significance of Hypothetical Consent.”

Michael Sevel is Lecturer in Jurisprudence at Sydney Law School.  In 2015-16 he will be a Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University.  Professor Sevel will be presenting his paper “Obeying the Law.”

Victor Tadros is a Professor at the School of Law, University of Warwick, and in the fall of 2015 will be a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.  He will be presenting his paper “Threats and Consent.”

Elinor Mason is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Edinburgh University. In 2015-16 she will be a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.  The paper she will be presenting is entitled “Consequentialism and Moral Responsibility”.

Elizabeth Harman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. Paper Title is “Ethics is Hard! What Follows?”

John Mikhail will be presenting his paper, “Unreasonable Risk: A Formal Analysis and Critical History of Common Law Negligence”.

Professor Kimberly Ferzan, Rutgers University School of Law - Camden and a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values will be presenting her paper “The Bluff.”

Professor Brian Leiter from the University of Chicago Law School will be presenting his paper “The Methodology of Legal Philosophy.”

Professor John Simmons from the University of Virginia will be discussing his paper “Territorial Rights: Justificatory Strategies.”

Professor Jules Coleman, New York University, will be presenting his paper “Liability and Accountability.”