Online webinar

The first Lent Term 2024 session of the monthly seminar run by the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy will take place on Friday, January 26th, at 3:00pm , through Zoom . The seminar will be chaired by Paula Keller, who is currently a three-year postdoctoral research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. For...

Speaker: Alma Diamond (University of Chicago) Abstract: I use Hart’s treatment of social rule-following as a jumping-off point to consider a particular kind of normative social practice: one involving the recognition of social obligations (rather than mere standards or guides for behavior). I call this a peremptory...

Speaker: Levin Güver (UCL) Motive is standardly taken to be irrelevant to criminal liability. Those that take issue with this claim usually do so on normative grounds: they argue that motive ought to be relevant to criminal liability on the basis of normative considerations such as the sympatheticness of the agent’s...

Speaker: Nina Varsava (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Abstract: I try to explain and justify the doctrine of horizontal stare decisis, which is mysterious in that it requires a court to follow its own decisions and simultaneously permits or even requires the court to depart from those decisions. I argue that horizontal...

Speaker: Kenneth Tomer (NYU) & Meir Yarom (University of Sydney) Abstract: A prevailing view in jurisprudence holds that states necessarily claim legitimate authority. We understand this claim as entailing two independent claims: a claim to rule and a claim to legitimacy. Theorists have focused on what legitimacy...

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Speaker: Jonathan Birch (Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics) All events take place on Zoom from 5-6.30pm (UK time). They are free and open to all. For more information about the Talking Animals series and to register for...

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Speaker: Andrew Fenton (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University) All events take place on Zoom from 5-6.30pm (UK time). They are free and open to all. For more information about the Talking Animals series and to register...

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Speaker: Claire Jean Kim (Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine) Claire Jean Kim is Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine...

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Speaker: David M. Peña-Guzmán (Associate Professor of Humanities, San Francisco State University) All events take place on Zoom from 5-6.30pm (UK time). They are free and open to all. For more information about the Talking Animals series...

Speaker: Aslihan Asil– Yale (9am LA, 12noon NYC, 5pm London) To register your interest for this event please contact Professor Oke Odudu ( oo201@cam.ac.uk ).