2011–12 Program in Ethics and Public Affairs return to Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

  1. Thursday, March 29, 2012 "What's Wrong with Colonialism" Lea Ypi, London School of Economics 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  2. Thursday, February 9, 2012 "Another Realism: The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolence" Karuna Mantena, Yale University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  3. Thursday, December 1, 2011 "Democratic Holy Wars: Democracy, Intervention, and Self-Defense" Christopher Kutz, UC Berkeley 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Co-sponsored by: Program in Law and Public Affairs
  4. Thursday, October 27, 2011 "The Importance Of What People Care About" Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  5. Thursday, September 22, 2011 Liam Murphy, New York University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Co-sponsored by: Program in Law and Public Affairs

2010–11 Program in Ethics and Public Affairs return to Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

  1. Thursday, April 7, 2011 The Dilemma of Democratic Lawmaking Eric Beerbohm, Harvard University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  2. Thursday, March 3, 2011 The Significance of Territorial Presence and the Rights of Noncitizens Sarah Song, University of California, Berkeley 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Co-sponsored by: Program in Law and Public Affairs
  3. Thursday, December 16, 2010 "Capitalism in the Classical and High Liberal Traditions" Samuel Freeman, University of Pennsylvania 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  4. Thursday, November 18, 2010 “Agreeing to Agree/Disagree: Publicity, Privacy, and Religious Toleration in Hobbes’s Leviathan” Arash Abizadeh, McGill University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  5. Thursday, September 23, 2010 "Freedom of Speech" Seana Shiffrin, UCLA School of Law 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

    Seana Shiffrin holds a joint appointment with UCLA’s Department of Philosophy and the School of Law. She has taught in the UCLA Department of Philosophy since 1992, where she teaches courses on moral, political and legal philosophy.  At the Law School, she has taught courses on Contracts, Free Speech Theory, Constitutional Rights and Individual Autonomy, and seminars on legal theory, contracts, distributive justice, remedies, and feminism. She is an associate editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs.

    Her research addresses issues in contracts, freedom of speech, constitutional law, intellectual property, criminal law, torts and family law.

     

2009–10 Program in Ethics and Public Affairs return to Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

  1. Thursday, March 11, 2010 "A Few Words on Mill, Walzer, and Nonintervention" Michael Doyle, Columbia School of Law 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

    Michael W. Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University.  His current research focuses on international law and international relations.  His major publications include Ways of War and Peace (W.W. Norton); Empires (Cornell University Press); Making War and Building Peace (Princeton Press); and Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton Press, 2008).  He served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan where his responsibilities included strategic planning (the “Millennium Development Goals”), outreach to the international corporate sector (the “Global Compact’) and relations with Washington. He is currently an individual member and the chair of the UN Democracy Fund, elected by the members and appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

  2. Thursday, March 4, 2010 "Constitutionalism Beyond the State: Myth or Necessity?" Jean Cohen, Columbia University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

    Professor Jean Cohen is a political theorist who specializes in contemporary political and legal theory, continental political thought, critical theory, and international political theory. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory (University of Massachusetts Press: 1982); Civil Society and Political Theory (co-authored with Andrew Arato) (MIT Press 1992); Regulating Intimacy: a New Legal Paradigm (Princeton University Press: 2002); and Rethinking Legitimacy and Legality in the Epoch of Globalization (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011).  She has published over 50 articles in journals such as Constellations, Ethics and International Affairs, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Social Research, Political Theory, Telos, Thesis 11, and in numerous law reviews in addition to chapters in edited books.

     

    Professor Cohen lectures widely abroad and recently held a month-long distinguished lecture series at the College de France. She has been awarded numerous fellowships and honors including the Fulbright Hays Research Fellowship, the Alfred Schutz Memorial Award, NEH summer fellowships, ACLS Travel Grants. She was a Fellow at The Max Planck Institute in Germany and at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. She has held distinguished Professor posts in Canada (University of Toronto School of Law), France (College de France, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Po), Germany (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat), and Sweden (Lund University). She was co-director for 17 years of the Seminar on Philosophy and the Social Sciences, held yearly at the Inter-University Center of Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, and since 1993 in Prague, The Czech Republic.

     

  3. Thursday, December 3, 2009 "Settling" Robert Goodin, Austrailian National University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  4. Thursday, November 19, 2009 "Ethical Issues in The Supply and Demand of Human Kidneys" Debra Satz, Stanford University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  5. Thursday, October 29, 2009 "Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom" Jacob Levy, McGill University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  6. Thursday, October 15, 2009 "When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? Freedom of Expression and the Reasons for Rights" Corey Brettschneider, Brown University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Co-sponsored by: Woodrow Wilson School

2008–09 Program in Ethics and Public Affairs return to Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

  1. Thursday, April 23, 2009 "Justice and Social Interaction" Andrea Sangiovanni, King's College London 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  2. Thursday, February 5, 2009 "Global Justice, European Enlargement, and Liberal Political Incorporation" Glyn Morgan, Harvard University Commentators:  Andrew Moravcsik, Woodrow Wilson School 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Co-sponsored by: European Union Program
  3. Thursday, October 16, 2008 "Liberty and Degradation" Peter de Marneffe, Arizona State University Commentators:  Elizabeth Harman - Princeton University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  4. Thursday, October 9, 2008 "Equality and Exemptions in Principle and Practice" Stuart White, Oxford University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  5. Thursday, September 25, 2008 "Measuring the Wellbeing of the World" Angus Deaton, Princeton University Commentators:  Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University & Peter Singer, Princeton University 300 Wallace Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Co-sponsored by: Co-sponsored by: The Center for Health and Wellbeing

2007–08 Program in Ethics and Public Affairs return to Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

  1. Thursday, April 10, 2008 "Socioeconomic rights in constitutional law: explaining America away" Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:15pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  2. Thursday, March 27, 2008 "Thinking Politically: Contending Conceptualizations of Support for Collectivities" Michael Freeden, Oxford University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:15pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  3. Thursday, February 21, 2008 "Abnormal Justice" Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:15pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  4. Thursday, October 11, 2007 "Political Liberalism Abroad" Michael Blake, University of Washington 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:15pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
  5. Thursday, October 4, 2007 "Integrating Immigrants" Eamonn Callan, Stanford University 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:15pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs