Events
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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). |
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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. |
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.
8 November Arthur Ripstein (Toronto) ‘Kant and the Law of War’
Organised jointly by Glasgow Legal Theory and the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security, the symposium celebrates the new publication, ‘Kant and the Law of War’, by Prof Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto Faculty of Law).
Symposium participants: Annabel Brett (Cambridge), Tria Gkouvas (Glasgow), Philipp Hirsch (Göttingen), Claus Kress (Cologne), George Pavlakos (Glasgow), Charlie Peevers (Glasgow), Akbar Rasulov (Glasgow), Christian Tams (Glasgow), Alain Zysset (Glasgow)
Please see the event flyer here.
25 November Fernando Atria (Universidad de Chile) 'The form of law and the concept of the political'
16 December Workshop with Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) Discussing the Code of Capital
1 June one-day seminar with the participation of Professor Kathleen Thelen (MIT) on her recent work ‘Platform Capitalism’. We will be joined by colleagues from Europe and the US for the occasion: Veena Dubal (Hastings), Karl Klare (Northeastern), Analisa Murgia (Milan), Vera Trappman (Leeds), Alex Wood (Birmingham).
2 July WorkOD online workshop. Participants at the event included Diamond Ashiagbor (University of Kent), Emily Rose (University of Strathclyde), Ruth Dukes (University of Glasgow), Gregoris Ioannou (University of Glasgow), Alessio Bertolini (University of Oxford) and Eleanor Kirk (University of Glasgow). The authors presented papers on the themes of ‘The Legal Characterisation of Working Relations’ and ‘Law, Legal Consciousness and Precarious Work’. Around fifty people tuned in from around the world and papers were followed by lively discussion. A recording of the event is available on request (ruth.dukes@glasgow.ac.uk).
Organised jointly by Glasgow Legal Theory and the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security, the symposium celebrates the new publication, ‘Kant and the Law of War’, by Prof Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto Faculty of Law).
Symposium participants: Annabel Brett (Cambridge), Tria Gkouvas (Glasgow), Philipp Hirsch (Göttingen), Claus Kress (Cologne), George Pavlakos (Glasgow), Charlie Peevers (Glasgow), Akbar Rasulov (Glasgow), Christian Tams (Glasgow), Alain Zysset (Glasgow)
Please see the event flyer here.
25 November Fernando Atria (Universidad de Chile) 'The form of law and the concept of the political'
16 December Workshop with Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) Discussing the Code of Capital
1 June one-day seminar with the participation of Professor Kathleen Thelen (MIT) on her recent work ‘Platform Capitalism’. We will be joined by colleagues from Europe and the US for the occasion: Veena Dubal (Hastings), Karl Klare (Northeastern), Analisa Murgia (Milan), Vera Trappman (Leeds), Alex Wood (Birmingham).
2 July WorkOD online workshop. Participants at the event included Diamond Ashiagbor (University of Kent), Emily Rose (University of Strathclyde), Ruth Dukes (University of Glasgow), Gregoris Ioannou (University of Glasgow), Alessio Bertolini (University of Oxford) and Eleanor Kirk (University of Glasgow). The authors presented papers on the themes of ‘The Legal Characterisation of Working Relations’ and ‘Law, Legal Consciousness and Precarious Work’. Around fifty people tuned in from around the world and papers were followed by lively discussion. A recording of the event is available on request (ruth.dukes@glasgow.ac.uk).
5 October Hrafn Asgeirsson (Surrey), ‘Authority, Communication, and Legal Content’*
12 October Eliot Michaelson (King’s College), ‘Confused Consent’
12 October Eliot Michaelson (King’s College), ‘Confused Consent’
16 May, David Dyzenhaus (University of Toronto) ‘Towards Political Legal theory'
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- Friday 4 November 2016, 'A New Legal Science? New Historical Jurisprudence and the Critical Analysis of Criminal Law' Professor Markus Dubber, University of Toronto Law School
- Friday 18 November 2016, 'Corporate Schizophrenia: the Institutional Origins of Corporate Irresponsibility', Professor Paddy Ireland, Bristol Law School
- Wednesday 7 December 2016, 'How exploiters dominate', Professor Dr Nicholas Vrousalis, Leiden University
- Friday 20 January 2017, 'On the de-collectivisation of labour law in the EU' Stefano Giubboni, University of Perugia
- Tuesday 24 January 2017, 'Governance through Global Networks and Corporate Signalling' Oren Perez (University of Tel Aviv)
- Thursday 26 January 2017, 'Counterfeiting Crypto-Currencies and the Conventionality of Constitutions' Professor Kenneth Ehrenberg, University of Alabama
- Monday 6 February 2017 Discussion of C. Thornhill, 'A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions' (CUP, 2016) Christopher Thornhill (University of Manchester) with Emilios Christodoulidis (University of Glasgow) and Neil Walker (University of Edinburgh)
- Wednesday 8 March 2017, 'The Legal Relation', Alexander Somek (University of Vienna)
Presentation by Michael Fischl (University of Connecticut), 'A Common Law for Labour Relations'
Presentations by Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck, University of London) and David McClellan (Goldsmiths, University of London
Presentations by Judy Fudge (University of Kent) and Kerry Rittich (University of Toronto)
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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.
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In the last ten years we have run an annual doctoral workshop in Legal theory which combines presentations by invited speakers and by PhD students. In the last few years the event has been integrated in the 'Globalisation and Legal theory' doctoral programme, co-organised with Tilburg University. Invited speakers and doctoral candidates deliver papers on work in progress and engage in discussion with the speakers, and fellow students from a number of participating universities (University of Glasgow, Tilburg University, University of Louvain, University of Antwerp, University of Helsinki, etc).
2018-9
29 May, Globalisation and Legal Theory Colloquium: Researcher Presentations
2015-6
At the 2016 event which took place in the spring, the lectures were given by David Garland (NYU), Vincent Chiao (University of Toronto) and Fiona MacMillan (Birkbeck, University of London).
2014-5
At the spring 2015 event, the invited speakers were Katrin Flikschuh (LSE), José Luis Martí (Pompeu Fabra University) and Jarna Petman (University of Helsinki).
2013-4
The spring 2014 workshop was held in Tilburg, where speakers included Gunther Teubner (Goethe University Frankfurt), Panu Minkinnen (University of Helsinki) and Neil Walker (University of Edinburgh).
2011-2
Glasgow-Antwerp doctoral workshop, ‘International Justice’ (hosted by University of Glasgow)
2010-1
The fourth Antwerp-Glasgow Doctoral Colloquium, 'Subsidiarity and its Discontents, was held at the University of Antwerp on 16-17 June 2011.
2009-10
The Antwerp-Glasgow doctoral workshop, ‘Unruly Peoples and the Legal Public’, held on 3-4 June 2010 at the University of Glasgow.
2018-9
29 May, Globalisation and Legal Theory Colloquium: Researcher Presentations
2015-6
At the 2016 event which took place in the spring, the lectures were given by David Garland (NYU), Vincent Chiao (University of Toronto) and Fiona MacMillan (Birkbeck, University of London).
2014-5
At the spring 2015 event, the invited speakers were Katrin Flikschuh (LSE), José Luis Martí (Pompeu Fabra University) and Jarna Petman (University of Helsinki).
2013-4
The spring 2014 workshop was held in Tilburg, where speakers included Gunther Teubner (Goethe University Frankfurt), Panu Minkinnen (University of Helsinki) and Neil Walker (University of Edinburgh).
2011-2
Glasgow-Antwerp doctoral workshop, ‘International Justice’ (hosted by University of Glasgow)
2010-1
The fourth Antwerp-Glasgow Doctoral Colloquium, 'Subsidiarity and its Discontents, was held at the University of Antwerp on 16-17 June 2011.
2009-10
The Antwerp-Glasgow doctoral workshop, ‘Unruly Peoples and the Legal Public’, held on 3-4 June 2010 at the University of Glasgow.
This workshop brings together researchers and students interested in discussing important contributions to both practical philosophy and philosophy of law.
The main topics of discussion are:
The workshop meetings feature joint discussions of selected readings or talks by invited speakers. All sessions are pre-read.
Please see the Philosophy and Law Workshop Series website for further information on their events.
Upcoming events in 2022:
4 February 2022
2-4pm
Dr Katharine Jenkins (Glasgow, Philosophy)
Against the Ontology-First Approach to Gender Recognition
This is the final chapter of a book manuscript (Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality). In it, I consider some current public discussions about gender recognition, understood as the ways in which people’s genders should be socially recognised, for example in terms of how people should be able to navigate gendered social spaces. I examine one of the many dysfunctions that currently characterise many of these discussions, which is an assumption about the relationship between ontology and social practices. Roughly, the assumption holds that settling the ontology of gender will automatically determine what shape our gendered social practices ought to take; I call this assumption ‘The Ontology First Approach’. I will argue that we should reject the Ontology First Approach, and I will show how doing so opens up more fruitful ways of thinking about gender recognition. These ways involve treating many of the issues that are in question as being based on the practical consequences of different possible ways of organising our social practices, rather than on facts about the ontology of social kinds. I argue that adopting this approach makes many questions about gender recognition much easier to resolve.
Venue: Room 207, Number 10 The Square, University of Glasogw
22 April 2022
2-4pm
Prof Sylvie Delacroix (B’ham, Law School)
Habitual Ethics
For many, ‘habitual ethics’ is a contradiction in terms. On this view, it is precisely because we are capable of distancing ourselves from the habitual that we are in a position to address the ethical question: ‘how should I/we live?’. I shall argue that there can be such a thing as habitual ethics and that it is high time we paid attention to the conditions under which the pre-reflective intelligence that makes us capable of ethical agency becomes compromised.
Venue: Room 207, Number 10 The Square, University of Glasgow
Both events are realised with the generous support of Glasgow Legal Theory, Hart Publishing and Jurisprudence. An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought
The main topics of discussion are:
- The philosophical analysis of core legal notions (e.g., legal validity, legal obligation and legal authority);
- The metaphysical explanation of law and legal practice (e.g., the determination of legal content by means of grounding, supervenience or causation relations);
- The intersection between law and morality (e.g., consent, convention and normativity).
The workshop meetings feature joint discussions of selected readings or talks by invited speakers. All sessions are pre-read.
Please see the Philosophy and Law Workshop Series website for further information on their events.
Upcoming events in 2022:
4 February 2022
2-4pm
Dr Katharine Jenkins (Glasgow, Philosophy)
Against the Ontology-First Approach to Gender Recognition
This is the final chapter of a book manuscript (Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality). In it, I consider some current public discussions about gender recognition, understood as the ways in which people’s genders should be socially recognised, for example in terms of how people should be able to navigate gendered social spaces. I examine one of the many dysfunctions that currently characterise many of these discussions, which is an assumption about the relationship between ontology and social practices. Roughly, the assumption holds that settling the ontology of gender will automatically determine what shape our gendered social practices ought to take; I call this assumption ‘The Ontology First Approach’. I will argue that we should reject the Ontology First Approach, and I will show how doing so opens up more fruitful ways of thinking about gender recognition. These ways involve treating many of the issues that are in question as being based on the practical consequences of different possible ways of organising our social practices, rather than on facts about the ontology of social kinds. I argue that adopting this approach makes many questions about gender recognition much easier to resolve.
Venue: Room 207, Number 10 The Square, University of Glasogw
22 April 2022
2-4pm
Prof Sylvie Delacroix (B’ham, Law School)
Habitual Ethics
For many, ‘habitual ethics’ is a contradiction in terms. On this view, it is precisely because we are capable of distancing ourselves from the habitual that we are in a position to address the ethical question: ‘how should I/we live?’. I shall argue that there can be such a thing as habitual ethics and that it is high time we paid attention to the conditions under which the pre-reflective intelligence that makes us capable of ethical agency becomes compromised.
Venue: Room 207, Number 10 The Square, University of Glasgow
Both events are realised with the generous support of Glasgow Legal Theory, Hart Publishing and Jurisprudence. An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought
2020-1
24 September, Human Rights Webinar with Başak Çalı on 'Bad Faith Review in Human Rights Law', co-organised by the Glasgow Legal Theory Group and the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security.
2019-20
2 July, online workshop organised by the Work on Demand (WorkOD) research project.
Participants at the event included Diamond Ashiagbor (University of Kent), Emily Rose (University of Strathclyde), Ruth Dukes (University of Glasgow), Gregoris Ioannou (University of Glasgow), Alessio Bertolini (University of Oxford) and Eleanor Kirk (University of Glasgow). The authors presented papers on the themes of ‘The Legal Characterisation of Working Relations’ and ‘Law, Legal Consciousness and Precarious Work’. Around fifty people tuned in from around the world and papers were followed by lively discussion. A recording of the event is available on request (ruth.dukes@glasgow.ac.uk).
Glasgow Postgraduate Law Conference
Notice: After careful consideration of the options and in light of Government and University advice on the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference committee has decided to cancel the 2020 GLPGC.
17 October, 9th Annual Juriprudence Lecture: Ayelet Shachar (Max Planck) on 'Olympic Citizenship: Reshaping the Boundaries of Membership'
The lecture is published in 11 (1) issue of the journal Jurisprudence
2018-9
May 28-31, Globalisation and Legal Theory Week
19 October, 8th Annual Jurisprudence Lecture: Alain Supiot (Collège de France) on 'Democracy laid low by the market'.
The lecture is publsihed in the 9 (3) issue of the journal Jurisprudence.
18 October, Launch of the Work on Demand (WorkOD) Research Porject. For more information on this event see blog post. For more information on the WorkOD project see here.
2017-8
1 June, Glasgow Postgraduate Law Conference. For more information see here.
2016-7
6 February, Discussion of C. Thornhill, A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions (CUP 2016) - Christopher Thornhill (University of Manchester), Emilios Christodoulidis (University of Glasgow), Neil Walker (University of Edinburgh)
25 November, Labour Law and Labour Markets: New Methodologies Symposium
Participants: Diamond Ashiagbor (SOAS), Simon Deakin (University of Cambridge), Ruth Dukes (University of Glasgow) Judy Fudge (University of Kent), Jenny Julén Votinius (Lund University), Robert Knegt (University of Amsterdam), Shelley Marshall (Monash University), Claire Mumme (University of Windsor)
2015-6
Law and the Political Economy Workshop, with John Haskell, Antonio Andreonai and Akbar Rasulov
Book launch Making the Modern Criminal Law Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow
2009-10
14-5 June, 'Hannah Arendt and the Law'workshop co-organised by the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values (Antwerp), the Glasgow Law School and the Institute for Society and Social Justice Research (Caledonian School of Law and Social Sciences)
2008-9
Autumn 2008 - Constitutionalizing Employment Relations Lecture Series with Gunther Teubner, Harry Arthurs, Alain Supiot
September 2008 - The Critical Legal Conference
May 2009 - The Public in Law Colloquium
24 September, Human Rights Webinar with Başak Çalı on 'Bad Faith Review in Human Rights Law', co-organised by the Glasgow Legal Theory Group and the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security.
2019-20
2 July, online workshop organised by the Work on Demand (WorkOD) research project.
Participants at the event included Diamond Ashiagbor (University of Kent), Emily Rose (University of Strathclyde), Ruth Dukes (University of Glasgow), Gregoris Ioannou (University of Glasgow), Alessio Bertolini (University of Oxford) and Eleanor Kirk (University of Glasgow). The authors presented papers on the themes of ‘The Legal Characterisation of Working Relations’ and ‘Law, Legal Consciousness and Precarious Work’. Around fifty people tuned in from around the world and papers were followed by lively discussion. A recording of the event is available on request (ruth.dukes@glasgow.ac.uk).
Glasgow Postgraduate Law Conference
Notice: After careful consideration of the options and in light of Government and University advice on the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference committee has decided to cancel the 2020 GLPGC.
17 October, 9th Annual Juriprudence Lecture: Ayelet Shachar (Max Planck) on 'Olympic Citizenship: Reshaping the Boundaries of Membership'
The lecture is published in 11 (1) issue of the journal Jurisprudence
2018-9
May 28-31, Globalisation and Legal Theory Week
- 30-1: international conference on the 'Material Constitution'
- 29: 'The Constitutional Approach to Money': a workshop on Christine Desan's (Harvard) work
- 28: Glasgow Law Postgraduate Conference
19 October, 8th Annual Jurisprudence Lecture: Alain Supiot (Collège de France) on 'Democracy laid low by the market'.
The lecture is publsihed in the 9 (3) issue of the journal Jurisprudence.
18 October, Launch of the Work on Demand (WorkOD) Research Porject. For more information on this event see blog post. For more information on the WorkOD project see here.
2017-8
1 June, Glasgow Postgraduate Law Conference. For more information see here.
2016-7
6 February, Discussion of C. Thornhill, A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions (CUP 2016) - Christopher Thornhill (University of Manchester), Emilios Christodoulidis (University of Glasgow), Neil Walker (University of Edinburgh)
25 November, Labour Law and Labour Markets: New Methodologies Symposium
Participants: Diamond Ashiagbor (SOAS), Simon Deakin (University of Cambridge), Ruth Dukes (University of Glasgow) Judy Fudge (University of Kent), Jenny Julén Votinius (Lund University), Robert Knegt (University of Amsterdam), Shelley Marshall (Monash University), Claire Mumme (University of Windsor)
2015-6
Law and the Political Economy Workshop, with John Haskell, Antonio Andreonai and Akbar Rasulov
Book launch Making the Modern Criminal Law Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow
2009-10
14-5 June, 'Hannah Arendt and the Law'workshop co-organised by the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values (Antwerp), the Glasgow Law School and the Institute for Society and Social Justice Research (Caledonian School of Law and Social Sciences)
2008-9
Autumn 2008 - Constitutionalizing Employment Relations Lecture Series with Gunther Teubner, Harry Arthurs, Alain Supiot
September 2008 - The Critical Legal Conference
May 2009 - The Public in Law Colloquium
