2016 Program

The 2016 Legal Philosophy Workshop was hosted by Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. The organizing committee consisted of Nico Cornell (Penn), Chris Essert (Queens), Dimitrios Kyritsis (Reading), George Letsas (UCL), and Jean Thomas (Queens).

Friday June 17th

8:30-9:00

Breakfast and Welcome

9:00-10:30

Stefan Sciaraffa (McMaster): “The Referent of 'Law' and Political Philosophy”

Commenter: Marcin Matczak (Warsaw)

Moderator: Jean Thomas (Queens)

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:15

Hilary Nye (NYU): “Does Law ‘Exist’?"

Commenter: Raff Donelson (Northwestern)

Moderator: Nico Cornell (Penn)

12:15-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Tony Reeves (Binghamton): “Liability to International Prosecution: The Nature of Universal Jurisdiction”

Commenter: Ryan Liss (Yale)

Moderator: Zoë Sinel (Western)

15:00-15:15

Coffee Break

15:15-16:45

Wendy Salkin (Harvard): “Why Stop Snitching? Morally Evaluating Confidential Informants"

Commenter: Alex Sarch (USC)

Moderator: Grégoire Webber (Queens)

18:00

Dinner at Sheraton Four Points

Saturday June 18th

8:30-8:45

Breakfast

8:45-10:15

Robert Hughes (Penn): “Obeying Economic Law”

Commenter: Ronit Levine-Schnur (Toronto)

Moderator: Euan MacDonald (Edinburgh)

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-12:00

Mikolaj Barczentiwicz (Oxford): “Metaphysics of the Rule of Recognition and the Illuminati Problem”

Commenter: Ryan Doerfler (Penn)

Moderator: Joanna Langille (NYU)

12:00-12:15

Coffee Break

12:15-13:45

Luis Duarte D’Almeida and Claudio Michelon (Edinburgh): “The structure of arguments by analogy in law”

Commenter: Katharina Stevens (McMaster)

Moderator: Chris Essert (Queens)

1:45

Wrap Up / Box Lunch to Go