Program for 2013 Warwick graduate conference in political and legal theory
9:00-9:45 Coffee and registration, Social Sciences building
9:45-10:00 Introduction and welcome, S0.13
10:00-11:00 Zofia Stemplowska ‘The descendants: Changing identity to rectify
injustice’, S0.13
11:00-12.05 Panel sessions 1
12.05- 12-15 coffee
12.20- 1.25 Panel sessions 2
1:25-2:05 Lunch
2:05-3:10 Panel sessions 3
3:10-3:25 Coffee
3:25- 4:30 Panel sessions4
4:30- 5:30 Victor Tadros ‘Duty and duress’, S0.13
5:30 Drinks at the dirty duck.
Program for 2013 Warwick graduate conference in political and legal theory
Panel Sessions
Session 1
A) Reasonable and unreasonable pluralism, S0.13
Stephanie Rinaldi (Manchester) Reasonable pluralism and the requirements
of justice
Julia Netter (Oxford) Investigating the challenge of unreasonable dissent to
liberal theory
B) The justification and limits of state sovereignty, S0.17
Michael Hastings (Cambridge) The observance of human rights and the
bounds of state sovereignty
Garvan Walshe (Manchester) Moral conflict and state authority.
C) Laws between nations, S0.18
James Christensen (Oxford)Justice, equality and world trade
Caleb Yong (Oxford) Scepticism about the legitimacy of immigration law.
D) Understanding and justifying democracy, S0.19
Alice Baderin. (Oxford) Political theory, public opinion and democratic
legitimacy
John Halstead (Oxford) Government for the people: the primacy of substance
in the justification for democracy
E) The practice of equality S0.20
James Hall (Oxford) Life is not a camping trip: On the desirability of Cohenite
socialism
Selina O’Doherty (Newport) ‘Seeing the woods for the trees’: Protecting
future generations from environmental harms
Program for 2013 Warwick graduate conference in political and legal theory
Session 2
F) Harm and Compensation, S0.13
Adam Slavny (Warwick) Non-reciprocity and the moral basis of liability to
compensate
Sara Van Goozen (Manchester) Thomson’s account of killing in self -defence:
Issues of agency
G) The politics of recognition, S0.18
Francesco Chiesa (Newport) Recognition as esteem and its adjudication
Daniel Clifton Mark (Cambridge) It takes two to duel: The quarrel of honour
and the practice of self- respect
H) The nature and implications of rights, S0.19
Stephen Hussey (Oxford) What do we gain (and lose) by adopting ‘political’
or ‘practical’ conceptions of human rights?
Bouke DeVries (St Andrews) Plain vs. substantive exit rights: A response to
Kukathas
I) Freedom, preferences and abilities, S0.20
Rosa Terlazzo (ANU) In defence of the concept of adaptive preferences
Pietro Intropi (Oxford) Freedom, ability and the bivalence/trivalence
distinction
Session 3
J) Political theory in the ‘real’ world, S0.13
Marius Ostrowski (Oxford) Who is the realist agent?
Aylon Cohen (Oxford) The liberalism of trauma: Political realism’s real
Program for 2013 Warwick graduate conference in political and legal theory
emotions
K) Free and Equal citizenship, S0.18
Mats Volberg (York) Persons as free and equal
Chris Mills (Manchester) Rescuing the endorsement thesis
L) Equality and Luck, S0.19
Douglas Bamford (Warwick) The holistic, policy focussed interpretation of
hypothetical insurance
Nik Kirby (Oxford) Two concepts of basic equality –one basis of equality
M) Kant and his legacy, S0.20
Irina Shumski (Cambridge) Practical objectivity in Kantian constructivism
Daniel Hutton Ferris (Oxford) Kant’s Theory of Judgment and the End of the
Deliberative Paradigm
Session 4
N) The demands of liberal legitimacy, S0.13
Atilla Mraz (NYU) Is legitimacy prior to justice?
Brian Carey (Manchester) Justice for jerks
O) The frontiers of liberal justice, S0.18
Elisa Piras (LSE) The moral frontier in liberal internationalist discourses
Lior Erez (UCL) Towards a normative interpretation of cosmopolitanism’s
motivational gap
P) Power and authority S0.19
Bruno Leipold (UCL) Raz, authority and political anarchism
Thomas Parr (Warwick) tbc
Q) Institutions to realise justice,
S0.20
Volkan Gul (UCL) Deliberative citizen practices in a deliberative system
David Jenkins (LSE) The importance of work