Religion and Legal Accommodation: A Symposium on Cécile Laborde’s Liberalism’s Religion

This workshop will discuss Cécile Laborde’s recently published book Liberalism’s Religion This workshop will discuss Cécile Laborde’s recently published book Liberalism’s Religion. The workshop will bring together political philosophers and lawyers from the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and provide a forum for debate on recent developments in the legal and political philosophy of religious […]

Symposium on Themes from Rowan Cruft’s Human Rights, Ownership, and the Individual

There is a growing literature on the philosophy of human rights that rarely engages with earlier work on the nature of rights, or on property’s canonical place in the history of rights theory. This symposium brings together legal, moral, and political philosophers to consider these issues in relation to Rowan Cruft’s forthcoming book. Symposium on Themes […]

Symposium on Liberalism With Excellence by Matthew Kramer

This conference will bring together scholars working within this debate to discuss, and present papers inspired by, an important new monograph by Matthew Kramer, Liberalism with Excellence, which will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2017. Speakers: Paul Billingham (Oxford) Clare Chambers (Cambridge) Matthew Kramer (Cambridge) Cécile Laborde (Oxford) Véronique Munoz-Dardé (University College London […]

Symposium on Chris Armstrong’s forthcoming book, ‘Justice and Natural Resources’

SAP Symposium on Chris Armstrong’s forthcoming book, ‘Justice and Natural Resources’ Political and moral philosophers are devoting increased attention to the questions of who should control access to natural resources and how the benefits of natural resources should be shared. Stress on essential resources such as fertile land and clean water, growing energy insecurity, contested […]

Justice and Democracy in the Firm

PROGRAMME 9–9:15 — Opening remarks 9:15–10:30 — Nien-hê Hsieh (Harvard) “The Purpose of Business and the Governance of Firms.” Comment by Iñigo González-Ricoy (UB) 10:30–11 — Coffee break 11–12:15 — Lisa Herzog (Goethe Frankfurt) “Epistemic Equality and the Regulation of Companies.” Comment by Serena Olsaretti (ICREA-UPF) 12:15–13:30 — Rutger Claassen (Utrecht) “Doing Good Together. The Ethics and Politics in Competition […]

Symposium on Allen Buchanan’s ‑The Heart of Human Rights- (OUP 2013)

Hosted by: Simon Caney, Jesse Tomalty, Leif Wena Confirmed speakers: Allen Buchanan, Simon Caney, Cecile Fabre, Sarah Fine, Mervyn Frost, Pietro Maffetone, David Miller, Andrea Sangiovanni, John Tasioulas, Jesse Tomalty, Guglielmo Verdirame, Lorenzo Zucca, Laura Valentini Registration: The event is free and open to all, but as space is limited, registration is required. To register, please […]