Fall 2017
Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
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)
Contractualism and Justification
Commentator: Samuel Scheffler (NYU)
Chair: Liam Murphy (NYU)
September 8
10:00 – 12:00 Session Two
Frank Michelman (Harvard)
Rawls’s Constitution-Centered Propositions on Legitimacy: A Friendly Interrogation
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)
Democratic Law
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)
Can Moral Principles Change?
Commentator: Jeremy Waldron (NYU)
Chair: Samuel Scheffler
September 14
Daniel Viehoff, NYU
Legitimately Arresting the Innocent, and Other Puzzles about Officially
Inflicted Harm
September 28
Grainne de Burca, NYU
Is Supranational Governance a challenge to Liberal Constitutionalism?
October 5
Samuel Freeman, University of Pennsylvania
Individual Freedom and Laissez-Faire Rights and Liberties
October 12
Jerry Gaus, Arizona University
The Complexity of a Diverse Moral Order
October 19
Robert Gooding –Williams, Columbia University
Ideology, Social Practices, Anti-Black Concepts
October 26
Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina
First reading: Aesthetic Responsibility
Second reading: Selves Like Us
November 2nd
Ekow Yankah, Cardozo University
The Sovereign and the Republic: A Republican View of Political Obligation
November 9
David Luban, Georgetown University
Arendt at Jerusalem
November 16
Laura Valentini, London School of Economics
There Are No Natural Rights
November 30
Juliana Bidadanure, Stanford University
Justice Across Ages: Treating Young and Old as Equals
December 7
Debra Satz, Stanford University
Equality and Adequacy as Distributive Ideals for Education