Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University
Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University
Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University
- September 17 – Willy Moka (Université Loyola Du Congo; Visiting Loyola Chair, Fordham)
- October 22 – Annette Martín (UIC/Princeton UCHV 2024-25)
- November 19 – Nancy Fraser (New School)
- Spring: David Owen (Southampton/IAS Visiting Professor 2024-25)
Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University
Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University
Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University
This paper explores the limits of philosophy of law in addressing the prevailing political crises of our time–the dissolution of the so-called “rules based liberal order” and the fascist underpinnings of “Western” politics–by considering an alternative approach to legal analysis grounded in a Foucauldian conception of nomos. To show how modern law serves to reproduce global inequalities and hierarchies by institutionalizing and naturalizing colonial relations of force, it reconsiders modern law through the framework of power. In doing so, it posits a new reading of modern law as a technology for upholding what Aníbal Quijano has called “the Eurocentered capitalist colonial/modern world power,” or what we can more simply understand as the colonial order of things.
Bio: Sabeen Ahmed is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College, where she works in the areas of social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, and anticolonial thought. Her teaching and scholarship take as their starting point the recognition that white supremacy is the defining political and existential problem of modernity, and that the discipline of philosophy has historically been implicated in this imperial reality. Her research and pedagogy are grounded in decolonial, antiracist, and anti-imperial commitments that bring global perspectives and historically marginalized voices to bear the major political (and thus philosophical) questions of our present.
Each week, a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group, which consists of students, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU, and faculty from other universities. Each week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page; participants are expected to have read the paper in advance.
The public sessions of the colloquium take place on Thursdays, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 9th floor, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Students taking the course for credit:
Students enrolled in the Colloquium meet separately with the conveners for an additional two-hour seminar on Wednesdays. One hour is devoted to a review of the preceding Thursday’s colloquium discussion, and one hour to preparation for the colloquium the following day.
Students are asked to write short reaction papers weekly, and each student is asked to make two or more oral presentations to the seminar during the term. Assessment is based on participation, reaction papers and presentations, and a final term paper.
Admission to the seminar is only by permission of the conveners. Students wishing to take the colloquium for credit should send their applications via e-mail to Omar Andron <owa207@nyu.edu> between July 1 and July 31, stating their background in law and philosophy and their interest in the colloquium. The application should use the subject line: Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy Application for Fall 2024. Please indicate which program you are enrolled in. Students not in the School of Law or Department of Philosophy at NYU should check with Academic Services about eligibility to register.
Colloquium 2024
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
August 29th
Cécile Fabre, University of Oxford
The Expressive Duty to Vote
September 5th
David Owens, Kings College London
Rules And Rulers
September 12th
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
September 19th
Seana Shiffrin, UCLA
September 26th
Sanford Diehl, NYU Philosophy
October 10th
Matthew Liao, NYU Bioethics
October 17th
Sophia Moreau, NYU Law
October 24th
Jed Lewinsohn, University of Pittsburgh
October 31st
R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley
November 7th
Anna Stilz, Princeton University
* Note that the colloquium will be held in the Greenberg Lounge (1st floor, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South) for this session.
November 14th
Benjamin Eidelson, Harvard Law School
November 21st
Derrick Darby, Rutgers University
- September 17 – Willy Moka (Université Loyola Du Congo; Visiting Loyola Chair, Fordham)
- October 22 – Annette Martín (UIC/Princeton UCHV 2024-25)
- November 19 – Nancy Fraser (New School)
- Spring: David Owen (Southampton/IAS Visiting Professor 2024-25)