ALSP Warwick, 2011: Schedule
Monday 4th July
10am – 12noon – Arrival (Rootes Building)
12noon – 12:50pm – Lunch in Rootes Building
12:50pm – 2:30pm (Social Sciences 0.21)
First plenary: Tom Christiano „State Consent and the Legitimacy of International
Institutions‟
2:45pm – 4:15pm – Session one
International Justice/Legitimacy (Social Sciences – room 0.21)
1. Ben Saunders – Democracy, rights and immigration
2. Patti Lenard – Democracy and the (human) right to exit
Chair: Sotiria Skarveli
Democracy (Social Sciences – room 0.09)
1. Leticia Morales – A democratic argument for the constitutional protection of
economic and social rights
2. Yuval Eylon – Legitimate authority, and the infringement of rights
Chair: Fabienne Peter
Environmental Justice (Social Sciences – room 0.10)
1. Ed Page - Global Climate Change: Which burdens, whose responsibility?
2. Ganifranco Pellegrino – Individual responsibility for climate change: a
necessary step for any justice-related view
Chair: Liam Shields
International Law and Global Governance (Social Sciences – room 0.08)
1. Elizabeth Ellis – Economic sanctions as humanitarian intervention
2. Shawn Kaplan – Is express consent required to fight a war justly?
Chair: Victor Tadros
Domestic Legitimacy (Social Sciences – room 0.03)
1. Justin Tosi – Rescuing the Right to Rule
2. Jonathan Seglow – When bad people do good
Chair: Tim Fowler
4:45pm – 6:15pm – Session two
International Justice/Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.09)
1. Caleb Yong – Migration and Rawls's Law of Peoples
2. Johan Rochel – The case for a political-procedural approach to migration ethics
Chair: Zosia Stemplowska
Domestic Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.10)
1. Esha Senchaudhuri – A critique of procedural legitimacy
2. Emanuela Ceva – Beyond Legitimacy: can proceduralism say anything relevant
about justice?
Chair: Doug Bamford
Democracy (Social Sciences 0.08)
1. Martin Ebeling – The normative significance of disagreement and the priority of
democracy over justice
2. Dean Machin – Democracy, political legitimacy and the problem of bureaucratic
discretion
Chair: Fabienne Peter
Punishment (Social Sciences 0.03)
1. Milla Vaha – States, Intentions, and Punishment
2. Ian Lee – Corporate criminal responsibility as team-member responsibility
3. Jeffrey Howard – Self-coercion: democratic punishment, political liberalism and
moral failure
Chair: Ed Page
Domestic Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.21)
1. Massimo Renzo – Fairness, Self-deception and Political Obligation
2. Cillian McBride – Rethinking Democratic Participation
Chair: Peter Jones
8:00pm: Conference dinner in Scarman Building
Tuesday 5th July
9am – 10:30am – Session one
Arendt, Legitimacy and Justice (Social Sciences 0.21)
1. Keith Breen - Law beyond command? An evaluation of Arendt‟s understanding
of law
2. Natalie Nenadic – Genocide and Sexual atrocities: Eichmann in Jerusalem and
Karadzic in New York
Chair: Doug Bamford
International Justice/Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.09)
1. Malte Ibsen – Global Justice
2. Graham Long - Global Justice and the Millennium Development Goals
Chair: Sotiria Skarveli
Democracy (Social Sciences 0.10)
1. Enzo Rossi – Justice, legitimacy and authority for political realists
2. Gabriele de Angelis – Moralism, realism and democratic legitimacy
Chair: Ed Page
Property Rights and Natural Resources (Social Sciences 0.08)
1. Chris Armstrong – Beyond national control over natural resources
2. Ashley Dodsworth – Grotius and natural resources as property
Chair: Patrick Capps
Toleration (Social Sciences 0.03)
1. Mihaela Georgieva – Self respect and political justification in pluralist societies
2. Devrim Kabasakal – Toleration as a normative response to the question of global
diversity
Chair: Liam Shields
11am – 12:30pm – Session two
Citizenship (Social Sciences 0.21)
1. Matthew Humphrey & Marc Stears – Reason-giving and citizen behaviour in
actually existing democracies
2. Russell Bentley – Dirty Hands and Unclean Citizens
Chair: Matthew Clayton
Toleration (Social Sciences 0.09)
1. Matthew Jones – Value pluralism, diversity and the role of the state
2. Federico Zuolo – Toleration and informal groups
Chair: Liam Shields
Domestic Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.10)
1. Laura Roth – Legitimacy, coercion, and reasons for obeying criminal laws
2. Gustavo Beade – Criminalizing Poverty
Chair: Victor Tadros
Democracy (Social Sciences 0.08)
1. Lorenzo Cini – Beyond representative democracy toward a participatory
deliberative model
2. Gideon Calder – Non-Kantian deliberative democracy
Chair: Patrick Capps
International Justice/Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.03)
1. Makoto Usami – Global Justice, human rights and state duties
2. Avia Pasternak – Human rights and the limits of states‟ corporate responsibility
Chair: Dean Machin
12:30pm – 1:30pm – Lunch in Rootes Building
1:30pm – 3pm – Session three
Joseph Raz (Social Sciences 0.21)
1. Alexandra Couto – Legitimacy and rights: a defence of the service conception of
authority
2. Adam Tucker – A wholeheartedly hybrid theory of authority
Chair: Sotiria Skarveli
Aggregation (Social Sciences 0.09)
1. Matthew Rendall – Priority, Aggregation, and the Economics of Climate Change
2. Victor Tadros – Aggregation and Justification
Chair: Tim Fowler
Self-ownership & Rights (Social Sciences 0.10)
1. Amanda Cawston – Do we have a right to self-defence?
2. Peter Jaworski – Ownership, guardianship & stewardship or: ownership, duty
free
3. Nicholas Cornell – Wrongs without rights
Chair: Zosia Stemplowska
International Law and Global Governance (Social Sciences 0.08)
1. Alice Obrecht – The illusion of NGO legitimacy
2. Roland Pierik – Off-shored Medicine Tests and “The Standard of Care” as an
Emerging Global Norm of Research Ethics
Chair: Dean Machin
Domestic Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.03)
1. Luke Maring – Political Authority
2. Michael Sevel – Authority and the nature of obedience
Chair: Doug Bamford
3:30pm – 5pm – Session four
Moral Paradoxes (Social Sciences 0.21)
1. Saul Smilansky – Why moral paradoxes matter
2. Talia Shaham - Is there a paradox of moral complaint?
Chair: Victor Tadros
Dworkin (Social Sciences 0.09)
1. Doug Bamford – What is the justification for private property in Dworkin‟s
equality of resources?
2. Sotiria Skarveli – Equality of resources and social status
Chair: Dean Machin
Primary goods? (Social Sciences 0.10)
1. Jessica Begon – Capabilities without paternalism: a dilemma for Nussbaum and
a new capability approach
2. Eoin Daly – Non-domination and the primary goods: echoes of Rousseau‟s
conception of legitimacy in Rawls‟s political liberalism
Chair: Fabienne Peter
Children and Justice (Social Sciences 0.08)
1. Liam Shields – How bad can a good enough parent be?
2. Audrey Cahill – Mind the gap: social justice and childhood
Chair: Matthew Clayton
Domestic Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.03)
1. Andre Santos Campos – The correlativity thesis as a criterion for constitutional
validity
2. Veronica Rodriuquez-Blanco – Legal Authority and the Paradox of Intention in
Action
Chair: Ed Page
7pm: Supper in Rootes Building
Wednesday 6th July
9am – 10:30am – Session one
Toleration (Social Sciences 0.21)
1. Alexa Zellentin – Us and them: Minarets and Equal citizenship
2. Michele Bocchiola – Liberalism, cultures, and illiberal practices
Chair: Sotiria Skarveli
Domestic Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.09)
1. Raymond Critch – The Nature of Legitimacy
2. Fabienne Peter - The Epistemic Foundations of Political Liberalism
3. Yann Allard-Tremblay – The authority of epistemic democracy
Chair: Liam Shields
International Justice/Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.10)
1. David Alvarez – The legitimacy of ringfencing co-operation
2. Mattias Katzer – On the political role of human rights
Chair: Emanuela Ceva
International Law and Global Governance (Social Sciences 0.08)
1. Dean Machin – Epistemic success as a necessary condition of the legitimacy of
international institutions
2. Patrick Capps - The Administration of Global Agencies by English Courts
Chair: Doug Bamford
Punishment (Social Sciences 0.03)
1. Kyron Huigens – Summary Corporal Punishment by Electrocution and the rule
of law
2. Harry Lesser – The responsibility of military leaders for war crimes
Chair: Victor Tadros
10:45am – 12:15pm – Session two
Joseph Raz (Social Sciences 0.21)
1. Chris Mills – Instrumental legitimacy and the burden of proof
2. Ben Martin – Law as authority and Raz‟s argument for exclusive positivism
3. Antony Hatzistavrou – Reconsidering authoritative directives
Chair: Dean Machin
Domestic Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.09)
1. Marius Ostrowski – Legitimacy, subjectivity and persuasiveness
2. Charles-Maxime Panaccio – The end of disagreement
Chair: Ed Page
Self-ownership & Property Rights (Social Sciences 0.10)
1. Diana Popescu – Is the robust right of self-ownership compatible with equality
of opportunity for welfare?
2. Arabella Fisher – The compatibility of libertarian property rights and global
redistributive taxation
Chair: Emanuela Ceva
International Law and Global Governance (Social Sciences 0.08)
1. Francois Tanquay- Renaud – Basic Challenges for global governance in
emergencies
2. Peter Jones – Internal conflict and principled compromise
Chair: Patrick Capps
International Justice/Legitimacy (Social Sciences 0.03)
1. Raf Geenens – The co-originality of human rights and global democracy
2. Angela White – A Global Deliberative Democracy
Chair: Fabienne Peter
12:15 – 1pm: Lunch (Rootes Building)
1pm – 2:30pm (Social Sciences 0.21)
Second plenary: Antony Duff „Relational Reasons and the Criminal Law‟
2:30pm: Conference closes