Programme for Warwick Graduate Conference in
Political and Legal Theory 2016
09:00-09:45
Coffee and registration, Social Sciences building
09:45-10:00
Introduction and welcome
10:00-11.00
David Estlund, “What’s Circumstantial about Justice?”
Room S0.11 – Chair: Adam Swift
11:00-12:05
Panel sessions 1
12:05-12:25
Coffee
12:25-1:30
Panel sessions 2
1:30-2:15
Lunch
2:15-3:20
Panel sessions 3
3:20-3:40
Coffee
3:40-4:45
Panel sessions 4
4:45-5:45
Cecile Laborde, “Is Liberalism Secular?”
Room S0.11 Chair: Hwa Young Kim
5:45
Drinks at The Dirty Duck (pub on campus)
Panel Sessions
Session 1 – 11:00-12.05
A) Schmitt and Laclau (Room S0.17) Chair: Adam Slavny
Emil Archambault – The public and the Private in Carl Schmitt: A case for
Reciprocal Political Enmity
Pedro Moreira – Ernesto Laclau: Hegemony, Populism and Radicalism
B) Justice and Individual Conduct (Room S0.13) Chair: Hwa Young Kim
Chris Marshall – Why Equality demands Egalitarian Occupational Choice but not
forced labour
Marko Konjovic – The Many Subjects of Social Justice
C) Liberal Neutrality (Room S0.18) Chair: Felix Pinkert
Cristobal Bellolio – Science, God, and the Promise of Liberal Neutrality
Christina Davis – Decriminalising polygamy in the UK: Reflections on policy
change
D) Marriage (Room S0.11) Chair: Fabienne Peter
Gah-Kai Leung – A Public Reason Defence of Same Sex Marriage
Jenny Brown – What’s Wrong with Marital Establishment? Do Religious and
marital establishment share relevant wrong-making features?
Session 2 – 12:25-1:30
E) Harm (Room S0.13) Chair: Matthew Clayton
Sara Van Goozen – Beneficiaries and the Reduction of Merely Foreseeable Harm
Alex Kaiserman – Against Secondary Liability in the Criminal Law
F) Climate Justice (Room S0.11) Chair: Adam Swift
Alexandre Sayegh – Climate Justice and the Ethics of Carbon Pricing
Daniel Callies – Climate Engineering and Playing God
G) Democracy and Markets (S0.18) Chair: Hwa Young Kim
Adam Kern – Koch and Kant: The difference between donations and arguments
John Wilesmith – Why Firm Size Matters in a Just Society
H) Constitutional Issues (S0.17) Chair: Mat Coakley
Daniel Harris – Majority Rule versus Judicial Review: A dose of realism
Jeanne Provencher – Can Rawlsian Civil Disobedience Encompass the Civil Rights
Movement?
Session 3 – 2:15-3:20
I) Inclusion and Exclusion (S0.13) Chair: David Axelsen
Maud Gauthier-Chung – Relational autonomy in a critical perspective: The
problem of oppression and the problem of exclusion
Heather Swadley – Cognitive Disability and Democracy: Deliberating beyond
reasonable speech acts
J) Ideal and Non-Ideal (S0.18) Chair: Hwa Young Kim
Andrew Reid – Restrictions on Freedom of Expression under Non-ideal
circumstances
Chetan Cetty – The Full Compliance Assumption and Feasibility Constraints in
Ideal Theory
K) Democracy (S0.17) Chair: Catalina Carpan
Yutang Jin – Demanding Partisanship: Why can political parties resolve the
paradox of political representation?
Miles Maftean – Stability or not: that is the question
Session 4 – 3:40-4:45
L) Morally Unreasonable People (S0.11) Chair: Hwa Young Kim
Kasper Ossenblok – Challenges for Left-Libertarianism
Anantharaman Muralidharan – A meta-theory for the full compliance assumption
M) Fairness and Equality (S0.13) Chair: Tom Parr
Tom Rowe – Risk and the Unfairness of Some Being better off at the Expense of
Others
Fernando Menendez – Unequal Opportunities and the Morally Relevant
Distinction of their sources
N) Autonomy (S0.11) Chair: Clare Heyward
Jens Damgaard Thaysen – Kantian Autonomy as the Limit of the law
Fay Niker – Can we ‘nudge’ citizens towards developing virtues?