Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy

The Conference for the Colloquium, September 7 and 8

Funded by the research project grant awarded to the late Ronald Dworkin as part of his 2014 Balzan Prize, the conference celebrates Ronald Dworkin’s work by celebrating the Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy, which he convened with Thomas Nagel from 1987 to 2011, joined in the early years by Lawrence Sager and David Richards.

The conference will comprise four modified colloquium sessions.  The papers will be posted on this page two weeks in advance. Each session will last for two hours, and there will be just one interlocutor for the guest speaker in each session. Our four distinguished speakers all presented at the colloquium during the Dworkin/Nagel years. We are happy to have, as a guest interlocutor, our former colleague Lawrence Sager. The first session of the conference will take place in the traditional Thursday afternoon colloquium time slot.  All sessions will take place in the traditional colloquium room.

September 7

4:00 – 4:30  Welcome by Dean Trevor Morrison and acknowledgements

4:30 – 6:30  Session One

Thomas M. Scanlon (Harvard)
Commentator: Samuel Scheffler (NYU)
Chair: Liam Murphy (NYU)

September 8

10:00 – 12:00  Session Two

Frank Michelman (Harvard)
Commentator: Lawrence Sager (University of Texas, Austin)
Chair: Lewis Kornhauser (NYU)

12:00 – 2:00  Lunch

2:00 – 4:00   Session Three

Seana Shiffrin (UCLA)
Commentator: Liam Murphy (NYU)
Chair: Jeremy Waldron (NYU)

4:00 – 5:00 Break

5:00 – 7:00  Session Four

Joseph Raz (King’s College London and Columbia)
Commentator: Jeremy Waldron (NYU)
Chair: Samuel Scheffler

September 14
Daniel Viehoff, NYU

September 28
Grainne de Burca, NYU

October 5 
Samuel Freeman, University of Pennsylvania

October 12
Jerry Gaus, Arizona University

October 19
Robert Gooding –Williams, Columbia University

October 26
Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina

November 2nd 
Ekow Yankah, Cardozo University

November 9 
David Luban, Georgetown University

November 16
Laura Valentini, London School of Economics

November 30
Juliana Bidadanure, Stanford University

December 7
Debra Satz, Stanford University