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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.

To receive announcements related to the workshop and copies of the papers (distributed a week in advance), join our email list.

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 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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