2015 Program

Saturday, June 13

09:30-10:00 Coffee and tea

10:00-12:00 Alex Kaiserman (Oxford), “Partial Liability”

Commentator: Sara Bernstein (Duke)

Chair: Luis Duarte d'Almeida (Edinburgh)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:00 Katharina Nieswandt (Pittsburgh) “Authority and Interest in the Theory of Right”

Commentator: Grégoire Weber (Queen’s)

Chair: Alex Sarch (USC)

3:00-3:30 Coffee and Tea

3:30-5:30 Nick Sage (Columbia), “Two Kinds of Private Law Right”

Commentator: Saladin Meckled-Garcia (UCL)

Chair: Marie Newhouse (Surrey)

5:30-6:30 Drinks reception (sponsored by Hart Publishing)

Sunday, June 14

9:30-10:00 Coffee and Tea

10:00-12:00 Leora Dahan-Katz (Yale), “Response Retributivism”

Commentator: Ira Lindsay (Dartmouth)

Chair: Visa Kurki (Cambridge)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:00 Daniel Wodak (Princeton), “Expressivism and Varieties of Normativity”

Commentator: Mike Ridge (Edinburgh)

Chair: Jean Thomas (Queen's)

3:00-3:30 Coffee and Tea

3:30-5:30 Hrafn Asgeirsson (Iceland), “Vagueness, Knowability, and Judicial Discretion"

Commentator: Teresa Marques (Barcelona)

Chair: Euan MacDonald (Edinburgh)

Hosted by:

University of Edinburgh

Organized by:

Luís Duarte d’Almeida, University of Edinburgh

Nico Cornell, University of Pennsylvania

Dimitrios Kyritsis, University of Reading

George Letsas, UCL

David Plunkett, Dartmouth College

Sponsored by:

Mind Conference Grants

Hart Publishing

Edinburgh School of Law

Edinburgh School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences