2017 Program

Friday, May 26:

8:30-9:00 Breakfast and Welcome

9:00-10:30 Ketan Ramakrishnan (NYU): “Property Rights in Dire Straits.”

Commentator: Nick Sage (LSE)

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:15 Aness Webster (Nottingham): “Blameworthiness of Negligence"

Commentator: Yifat Biton (COMAS)

12:15-13:30 Lunch Break (on your own)

13:30-15:00 Nico Cornell (Penn/Wharton): “The Wrong of Unfair Competition”

Commentator: George Letsas (UCL)

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-16:45 Mihailis E. Diamantis (Iowa): “The Corporation and the Epistemologist”

Commentator: Claire Fields (St. Andrews)

18:00 Dinner

Saturday, May 27:

08:30-08:45 Breakfast

08:45-10:15 David Campbell (Trinity College Dublin): “A Philosophical analysis of the Crime/Tort

Distinction Through The Lens of Gardner’s Duties to Try/Duties To Succeed and

Zipursky’s Duties of Non-Injury/Non-Injuriousness”

Commentator: Leora Dahan Katz (Hebrew/Van Leer)

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Laura Valentini (LSE): “There Are No Natural Rights”

Commentator: Jean Thomas (Queens)

12:00-12:15 Coffee Break

12:15-13:45 Maggie O’Brien (Toronto) and Alexandra Whelan, “Hypocrisy in the Law”

Commentator: Ori Herstein (Hebrew/KCL)

13:45 Wrap Up / Box Lunch to Go

The LPW will be taking place in lecture theatre 1.02 in Malet Place Engineering Building, University College London, on both days. Malet Place Engineering Building is accessible via the Malet Place entrance (opposite Waterstones) which is just off Torrington Place. The building is the second entrance on the left as you go through the UCL gates. A link to show the location of the entrance is at:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/malet-place-engineering-building

The 2017 Legal Philosophy Workshop is hosted by University College London. The organizing committee consisted of Nico Cornell (Penn), George Letsas (UCL), Marie Newhouse (Surrey), Jean Thomas (Queens), and Kevin Toh (UCL).