Legal Theory Workshops

University of Chicago Law and Philosophy Workshop

September 29: Richard Posner, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and University
of Chicago Law School: The Supreme Court's Sodomy Decision

October 9: Dewey Lecture, Professor Catharine MacKinnon, University of Chicago
and University of Michigan Law Schools

October 13: Andrew Koppelman, Northwestern University Law School: Pornography
for the Whole Family

October 27: Martha Fineman, Emory University Law School: To Be Announced

November 10: Susan Okin, Political Science, Stanford University: Rawls and his
Feminist Critics: Debating Justice and Gender

December 1: Special forum in which Professor Ulrich Preuss, Freie Universität,
Berlin and Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Law School, will present
work on comparative constitutionalism

January 5, 2004: David Novak, Religious Studies, University of Toronto: "Is
Marriage An Item in the Social Contract?”

Note: January 23 to 25, conference on Constitution-Making in Israel and
Palestine, sponsored by the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism

January 26: Justice Michael Kirby, High Court of Australia: Same-Sex Issues in
Comparative Perspective

February 9: Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law Schoool: Tentative
topic: On Liking and Not Liking in the Law of Employment Discrimination; Part
II: Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace

February 23: Carolyn Frantz, University of Chicago Law School: What Do Parents
Owe Children?

March 1: Emily Buss, University of Chicago Law School: The Relationship Between
Procreative and Parental Rights (tentative)

March 29: Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago English Department: To Be
Announced

April 12: Kenji Yoshino, Yale Law School: To Be Announced

April 26: Robin West, Georgetown University Law School: To Be Announced

May 10: Barbara Fried, Stanford University Law School: To Be Announced

May 17: Special symposium on Violence Against Women as a Crime Against
Humanity, sponsored by the Workshop jointly with the Center for Comparative
Constitutionalism. Speakers will include Catharine MacKinnon and Martha
Nussbaum.

University of Chicago--Law and Philosopy Workshops

September 29: Richard Posner, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and University of Chicago Law School: The Supreme Court's Sodomy Decision

October 9: Dewey Lecture, Professor Catharine MacKinnon, University of Chicago
and University of Michigan Law Schools

October 13: Andrew Koppelman, Northwestern University Law School: Pornography
for the Whole Family

October 27: Martha Fineman, Emory University Law School: To Be Announced

November 10: Susan Okin, Political Science, Stanford University: Rawls and his
Feminist Critics: Debating Justice and Gender

December 1: Special forum in which Professor Ulrich Preuss, Freie Universität,
Berlin and Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Law School, will present
work on comparative constitutionalism

January 5, 2004: David Novak, Religious Studies, University of Toronto: "Is
Marriage An Item in the Social Contract?”

Note: January 23 to 25, conference on Constitution-Making in Israel and
Palestine, sponsored by the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism

January 26: Justice Michael Kirby, High Court of Australia: Same-Sex Issues in
Comparative Perspective

February 9: Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law Schoool: Tentative
topic: On Liking and Not Liking in the Law of Employment Discrimination; Part
II: Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace

February 23: Carolyn Frantz, University of Chicago Law School: What Do Parents
Owe Children?

March 1: Emily Buss, University of Chicago Law School: The Relationship Between
Procreative and Parental Rights (tentative)

March 29: Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago English Department: To Be
Announced

April 12: Kenji Yoshino, Yale Law School: To Be Announced

April 26: Robin West, Georgetown University Law School: To Be Announced

May 10: Barbara Fried, Stanford University Law School: To Be Announced

May 17: Special symposium on Violence Against Women as a Crime Against
Humanity, sponsored by the Workshop jointly with the Center for Comparative
Constitutionalism. Speakers will include Catharine MacKinnon and Martha
Nussbaum.

University of Bristol--Philosophy Research Seminars
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

RESEARCH SEMINARS
AUTUMN 2003

10 October : Brad Hooker (Reading)
'Some Recent Theories of Fairness'

17 October : Robin Hendry (Durham)
'What Chemical Kinds Have to Do'

24 October : Michael Ridge (Edinburgh)
'Betting on Hedges: From Moral Knowledge to Default Principles'

31 October : Mike Otsuka (UCL)'
Scepticism About Saving the Greater Number'

7 November : Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth)
TBA

14 November : Carlton Gibson (Bristol)
'The Spectre of Analyticity: Problems with the New Essentialism'

21 November : Katherine Hawley (St Andrews)
'Are Identity and Existence Intrinsic'

28 November : David Papineau (KCL)
'Genes and Culture'

5 December : Jo Wolff (UCL)
'What is Disadvantage and What Should be Done About it?'

12 December : Katrin Flikschuh (LSE)
'Global Justice and the Liberal Good Life: the Limits of Liberal Cosmopolitanism'


All seminars take place from 3.00 pm - 5.00 pm on
Fridays in the
Common Room, 9 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TB