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
- The workshop will next be offered in 2024-2025, likely in the spring. The presentation schedule will be posted here when it is available.
Past Presentations
Fall 2023 (Ryan Doerfler & Ben Eidelson)
- Sarah Moss (University of Michigan)
Knowledge and Legal ProofSeptember 13, 2023 - Lily Hu (Yale University)
Normative Facts and Causal StructureSeptember 27, 2023 - Scott Hershovitz (University of Michigan)
Law Is a Moral PracticeOctober 11, 2023 - Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
Vigilantism: Tools for InquiryOctober 25, 2023 - Emily Kidd White (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Thinking about Shame and Necessity in Legal ReasoningNovember 8, 2023 - Bill Watson (Harvard Law School)
Obstructing PrecedentNovember 15, 2023 - Brian Leiter (University of Chicago)
The Metaphysical Turn in Recent American JurisprudenceNovember 29, 2023
Fall 2022 (Ben Eidelson & Chris Lewis)
- Stephen Sachs (Harvard Law School)
The Official Story of the LawSeptember 14, 2022 - Deborah Hellman (University of Virginia School of Law)
Defining Protected TraitsSeptember 28, 2022 - Mala Chatterjee (Columbia Law School)
Understanding Intellectual Property: Expression, Function, and IndividuationOctober 12, 2022 - Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (University of Pennsylvania School of Law)
The Trouble With Time ServedOctober 26, 2022 - Erik Encarnacion (University of Texas at Austin School of Law)
Making Whole by Making BetterNovember 9, 2022 - Mitchell Berman (University of Pennsylvania School of Law)
Religious Liberty and the Constitution: Of Rules and Principles, Fixity and ChangeNovember 30, 2022
Spring 2022 (Ben Eidelson & Chris Lewis)
- Sabine Tsuruda (Queen’s University Faculty of Law)
Labor, Association, and the Priority of LibertyFebruary 2, 2022 - Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University Law Center)
Ordinary Meaning and Ordinary PeopleFebruary 16, 2022 - Erin Kelly (Tufts University, Philosophy)
Accountability in Criminal Justice: Lessons from RawlsMarch 2, 2022 - Steven Schaus (Harvard Law School)
Wrongs to UsMarch 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 RealityApril 20, 2022