Events
Picture: (c) Jane Couroussopoulos
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The Adam Smith Lecture in Jurisprudence seeks to make productive in a contemporary context the distinctive approach of the Scottish Enlightenment to legal philosophy. The Lecture invites some of the world’s most distinguished legal and political philosophers whose ideas have reached out beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries, to shape innovative thinking on key philosophical, political and social aspects of law and government. It is envisaged that these lectures will form landmark moments in our understanding of contemporary debates on law and its place in an interconnected world. |
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The 2022 Adam Smith lecture was given by Debra Satz (Stanford) on the topic 'When Cash is Not Enough: The Role of In-Kind Goods'
Abstract Egalitarian economists and philosophers have argued that in kind provision of certain goods is inferior to cash provision on both efficiency based and anti-paternalist grounds. If we care about the poor we should transfer cash to them and allow them to use that cash for the purposes they must prefer. Drawing on an older tradition of economic and egalitarian theory, I present a new justification for certain forms of in-kind provision by the state. I argue that the distribution of certain in-kind goods help individuals to be able to regard one another as participants in a common project, and as having a basic set of shared interests and concerns which the state must equally attend to, despite differences in individual talents, value orientations, levels of income and wealth, social positions, and preferences. You can watch a recording of the lecture here. |
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The 2021 lecture was given by Professor Kathleen Thelen at 3pm on Friday 21 May. The title of the lecture was: Employer Organization in the United States: Historical Legacies and the Long Shadow of the American Courts.
Kathleen Thelen is Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on the origins and evolution of political-economic institutions in the rich democracies. She is the author of Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (2014) and How Institutions Evolve (2004), and co-editor of Advances in Comparative Historical Analysis (with James Mahoney, 2015), and Beyond Continuity (with Wolfgang Streeck, 2005). Her awards include the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Prize (2019); the Michael Endres Research Prize (2019), the Barrington Moore Book Prize (2015), the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the APSR (2005), the Mattei Dogan Award for Comparative Research (2006), and the Max Planck Research Award (2003). She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2009. She was awarded honorary degrees at the Free University of Amsterdam (2013), the London School of Economics (2017), the European University Institute in Florence (2018), and the University of Copenhagen (2018). |
The 2019 Adam Smith Lecture was delivered by Professor Christine Desan (Harvard University) on the topic of "The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity".
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2018's Adam Smith Lecture was given on Wednesday 30 May by Wolfgang Streeck. Professor Streeck is one of the leading sociologists in Europe, emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, and a prominent public intellectual. He presented at the University of Glasgow on the highly topical question of 'The Size of Nations and the Politics of Political Scale'.
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The 2017 Adam Smith Lecture in Jurisprudence took place on 26 May. A J Julius (UCLA) presented on 'Free production through and against property'.
Abstract This lecture arranges for Locke, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, and Fichte to agree about property by arranging for them to agree with Karl Marx. The project of using what's mine to make what's mine is an attempt at producing freely. It fails: the general interdependence of individual production activity as it's organized by private property is a mutual subjection. The attempt will succeed only when propertyless workers free themselves to work together on purpose. |
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The inaugural Adam Smith Lecture in Jurisprudence took place on 5 May 2016.
Professor Scott Veitch, Paul K C Chung Professor of Jurisprudence from the University of Hong Kong was the guest speaker, who delivered a lecture on the topic of "The Sense of Obligation". An Obligations Workshop, exploring related issues to Professor Veitch's lecture, was held on the same day. |
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The Glasgow Legal Theory Seminar Series invites ambitious new work in legal and political philosophy broadly construed by established and more junior scholars from the UK and abroad. The Seminar Series also welcomes doctrinal work which contains notable theoretical insights. Typically sessions last 2 hours and the format is pre-read, with an eye to in-depth exchange with the academics and graduate researchers of the Glasgow community. On occasion, and depending on the nature of the invited contribution, a discussant may be assigned.
November 3rd, 1.00 - 3.00 pm, Room 207, 10 Professor's Square
Law and Philosophy Network Seminar
Alex Kaisermann (University of Oxford): 'Causation and Fault in Apportionment of Liability'
Supported by Glasgow Legal Theory Group, Hart Publishing and Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Legal and Political thought
November 6th, 3.30 - 5.00 pm, Room 207, 10 Professor's Square
Federico Szczaranski Vargas (U Central, Chile): 'The Authority of Constituent Power'
November 10th, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm, The Halliday Room, 8 Professor's Square
Disputationes: A Collaborative PhD Work-in-Progress Workshop
Organised in Collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and the University of Surrey
November 14th, 4.00 - 6.00 pm, Room 207, 10 Professor's Square
Phillip Dann (Humboldt University, Berlin): 'Constitutions and Time'
November 24th, 4.30 - 6.00pm, Room 207, 10 Professor's Square
Chris Thornhill (University of Manchester): 'Constitutional Citizenship and Empires'
This page will be continually updated with further information, but if you have any questions about these events please get in touch via jamie.haughton@glasgow.ac.uk
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The Glasgow Legal Theory members, students and affiliates meet during term time for a weekly reading group. Typically we read and discuss in depth one (entire) book and a number of articles that are suggested by participants at the beginning of each term.
We meet on Thursdays in Room 207, Number 10 The Square, from 3pm-5pm. If you would like to join or for more information please contact jamie.haughton@glasgow.ac.uk. |
The Network of Law and Philosophy brings together staff members from Law and Philosophy who share an interest in foundational questions about the law and are engaged in interdisciplinary research agendas that bring core areas of philosophical enquiry (metaphysics, language, epistemology) as well as practical (moral and political) philosophy to bear on the explanation of legal phenomena, the structure and methods of legal reasoning and the understanding of key legal concepts. Depending the understanding of the foundations of law and legal systems ultimately has a practical purpose for the members of the network: to grapple with the key legal and political challenges of our age and promote modes of governance that respect equality, freedom and the respect for diverse forms of human flourishing.
The Network organises an annual seminar series which is co-sponsored by Hart Publishing, The School of Law and The Subject Unit of Philosophy. It promotes joint co-supervision of PhD students by staff based in Law and Philosophy and regularly attracts research funding from prestigious research bodies.
