Fall 2018
Professors Jeremy Waldron and Samuel Scheffler
Schedule of Speakers
September 6
Eric Beerbohm, Harvard
Gaslighting Citizens
September 13
Rick Brooks, NYU
Loyalty and What Law Demands: Self Interest, Sole Interest or Best Interest
September 20
Jan-Werner Mueller, Princeton
Individual Militant Democracy
Paper removered at the request of the author.
September 27
Antony Duff, University of Minnesota
Criminal Law and the Constitution of Civil Order
October 4
Veronique Munoz-Darde, UC Berkeley
The Priest, the Liberal and the Harlot: Liberalism and Sexual Desire
October 11
Liam Murphy, NYU
Purely Formal Wrongs
October 18
Michele Moody-Adams, Columbia University
Taking Expression Seriously: Equal Citizenship, Expressive Harm
and Confederate Iconography
October 25
Meir Dan-Cohen, UC Berkeley
On the (Im)morality of the Death Penalty
November 1
Amia Srinivasan, University of Oxford
On Genealogy
Paper removed at the request of the author
November 8
Melissa Schwartzberg, NYU
Sheep May Safely Graze: On the Instrumental Justification of Democracy
November 15
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
Other Animals Respecting Complex Forms of Life
November 29
Tom Nagel, NYU
Paper removed at the request of the author.
December 6
Nancy Fraser, The New School
Democracy’s Crisis:
On the Political Contradictions of Financialized Capitalism