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About the Law & Philosophy Workshop

A focal point for the law-and-philosophy community at Harvard is the semester-long Law & Philosophy Workshop, which has been held annually in recent years and is convened by faculty from the Law School and the Philosophy Department. The workshop hosts guest presenters for discussions of their pre-circulated works in progress; these sessions are open to attendees from across the university, and law students or graduate students in philosophy may enroll for credit.

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Current Schedule

Spring 2025 (Chris Lewis and Gina Schouten)
  • Gideon Yaffe (Yale Law School)
    February 5, 2025
  • Pat Tomlin (Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK)
    February 12, 2025
  • Jon Quong (Philosophy and Law, USC)
    February 19, 2025
  • Sandy Mayson (Penn Law)
    February 26, 2025
  • Rebecca Stone (UCLA Law)
    March 5, 2025
  • Wendy Salkin (Philosophy and Law, Stanford)
    March 12, 2025
  • Jake Nebel (Princeton, Philosophy)
    March 26, 2025
  • Manon Garcia (Freie Universitat, Berlin, Philosophy)
    April 2, 2025
  • Nico Cornell (Law and Philosophy, University of Michigan)
    April 9, 2025
  • Chad Lee-Stronach (Philosophy, Northeastern)
    April 16, 2025
  • Renee Jorgensen (Philosophy, University of Michigan)
    April 23, 2025

    Past Presentations

    Fall 2023 (Ryan Doerfler & Ben Eidelson)
    • Sarah Moss (University of Michigan)
      Knowledge and Legal Proof
      September 13, 2023
    • Lily Hu (Yale University)
      Normative Facts and Causal Structure
      September 27, 2023
    • Scott Hershovitz (University of Michigan)
      Law Is a Moral Practice
      October 11, 2023
    • Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
      Vigilantism: Tools for Inquiry
      October 25, 2023
    • Emily Kidd White (Osgoode Hall Law School)
      Thinking about Shame and Necessity in Legal Reasoning
      November 8, 2023
    • Bill Watson (Harvard Law School)
      Obstructing Precedent
      November 15, 2023
    • Brian Leiter (University of Chicago)
      The Metaphysical Turn in Recent American Jurisprudence
      November 29, 2023
    Fall 2022 (Ben Eidelson & Chris Lewis)
    • Stephen Sachs (Harvard Law School)
      The Official Story of the Law
      September 14, 2022
    • Deborah Hellman (University of Virginia School of Law)
      Defining Protected Traits
      September 28, 2022
    • Mala Chatterjee (Columbia Law School)
      Understanding Intellectual Property: Expression, Function, and Individuation
      October 12, 2022
    • Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (University of Pennsylvania School of Law)
      The Trouble With Time Served
      October 26, 2022
    • Erik Encarnacion (University of Texas at Austin School of Law)
      Making Whole by Making Better
      November 9, 2022
    • Mitchell Berman (University of Pennsylvania School of Law)
      Religious Liberty and the Constitution: Of Rules and Principles, Fixity and Change
      November 30, 2022
    Spring 2022 (Ben Eidelson & Chris Lewis)
    • Sabine Tsuruda (Queen’s University Faculty of Law)
      Labor, Association, and the Priority of Liberty
      February 2, 2022
    • Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University Law Center)
      Ordinary Meaning and Ordinary People
      February 16, 2022
    • Erin Kelly (Tufts University, Philosophy)
      Accountability in Criminal Justice: Lessons from Rawls
      March 2, 2022
    • Steven Schaus (Harvard Law School)
      Wrongs to Us
      March 23, 2022
    • Daniel Fryer (University of Michigan Law School)
      What’s the Point of Reparation?
      April 6, 2022
    • David Plunkett (Dartmouth College, Philosophy) and Daniel Wodak (University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy & Law)
      The Disunity of Legal Reality
      April 20, 2022
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