2014 Program

The 2014 LPW was hosted by the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, PA. The workshop was made possible by funding from the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department and the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research. The organizing committee was composed of Nico Cornell (Penn/Wharton), Luís Duarte d’Almeida (Edinburgh), Dimitrios Kyritsis (Reading), George Letsas (UCL), and David Plunkett, (Dartmouth).

Saturday, May 3

10-12 Zoe Sinel (Western Ontario)

"Justifying Private Law's Self-Help Remedies"

Commentator: Claudio Michelon (Edinburgh)

Chair: Nico Cornell (Penn/Wharton)

12-1 Lunch

1-3 Stephen Finlay (USC) & David Plunkett (Dartmouth)

"A Quasi-Expressivist Theory of Legal Statements"

Commentator: Luis Duarte d' Almeida (Edinburgh)

Chair: Wendy Salkin (Harvard)

3-3:30 Coffee and Tea

3:30- 5:30 Daniel Viehoff (Sheffield)

"Serving the Governed"

Commentator: Candice Delmas (Clemson)

Chair: Charles Barzun (Virginia)

6-8 Dinner at Pod

Sunday, May 4

9-10 Breakfast

10-12 Kevin Toh (San Francisco State)

"Disputes of Taste and Disputes of Law: Stakes and Upshots"

Commentator: Scott Hershovitz (Michigan)

Chair: Sam Shpall (Yale)

12-1 Lunch

1-3 James Edwards (Cambridge)

"Harm Principles"

Commentator: Alex Guerrero (Penn)

Chair: Aness Webster (USC)

3-3:30 Coffee and Tea

3:30-5:30 Julia Markovits, (MIT)

"Laws and Reasons"

Commentator: Chris Essert (Queen's)

Chair: Dimitris Kyritsis (Reading)