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Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'Grounding Equitable Powers'

Speakers: Sebastian Lewis (Surrey) Abstract: Equity has traditionally been understood as a moral corrective to the generality of statutory law based on a problem of legislative foresight. Because of the ad hoc and corrective character of equity, many scholars have seen a tension between the morality of equity and the...

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'Populist Speech and Informal Legal Transformations'

Speakers: Diego de Guadalupe Romero Rivero (Cambridge) Abstract : Most legal academics analysing populism focus exclusively on formal legal changes. Some even suggest that constitutional scholars should keep in mind that it is more important to see what populists are doing than what they are saying. However, we act with...

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'Tort and Punishment'

Speakers: Omid Eliott Yeganeh (Oxford) Abstract: This article charts the relationship between tort liability and punishment. It draws on a conventional understanding of tort enjoined with a systematic account of punishment to argue that the central case of tort liability amounts to punishment. In doing so, the article...

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'Legal Perspectivalism and Legal Inferences'

Speakers: Angelo Ryu & Trenton Sewell (Oxford) Abstract: Perspectivalism is a popular way to understand legal obligations. That there is a legal obligation, on this view, is equivalent to there being a moral obligation from the legal perspective. But it has recently come under attack. In a recent paper, Adam Perry...

CFLPP Public Lecture: 'Requiem for a Concept: Exclusionary Reasons'

The Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy will host a public lecture by Professor Michael Moore of the University of Illinois College of Law and Philosophy Department on Friday, February 9th, at 5:00pm, through Zoom . The title of the lecture is 'Requiem for a Concept: Exclusionary Reasons.' Everyone is...

Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'Decolonizing Animals: Elephants and the End of Empire in Myanmar'

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Speaker: Jonathan Saha (Professor of South Asian History, Department of History, Durham 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...

Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'Expanding the Ethical Foundations of Animal Law and Policy'

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Speaker: Serrin Rutledge-Prior (Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Visiting Researcher, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law) All events take place on Zoom from 5-6.30pm (UK time). They...

Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'Dog-aganda: How the State Uses Dogs to Manufacture Consent for Violence'

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Speaker: El Jones (Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, Economics, and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University; Visiting Researcher, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law) All events take place on Zoom from 5-6...

Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'Animal Law and Regulation in China'

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Speaker: Deborah Cao (Professor at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University) All events take place on Zoom (please note the time of this event). They are free and open to all. For more information about...

Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'A Republic of Fellow Sufferers: Why and How We Should Grant Rights to Nature'

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Speaker: Sergio Dellavalle (Professor of Public Law and State Theory at the University of Turin; Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law) All events take place on Zoom from 5-6.30pm (UK time). They are free and open to...

Online webinar

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'Grounding Equitable Powers'

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'Populist Speech and Informal Legal Transformations'

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'Tort and Punishment'

Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG): 'Legal Perspectivalism and Legal Inferences'

CFLPP Public Lecture: 'Requiem for a Concept: Exclusionary Reasons'

Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'Decolonizing Animals: Elephants and the End of Empire in Myanmar'

Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'Expanding the Ethical Foundations of Animal Law and Policy'

Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'Dog-aganda: How the State Uses Dogs to Manufacture Consent for Violence'

Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'Animal Law and Regulation in China'

Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'A Republic of Fellow Sufferers: Why and How We Should Grant Rights to Nature'

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