Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy

Professor Ronald Dworkin
Fall 2003
Professor Thomas Nagel

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September 4

Phillipe Pettit, Princeton University, Politics
Akrasia, Collective and Individual

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September 11

Professor Thomas Franck , NYU School of Law
Presumptions at Law:
An Enquiry into the Existence of a Global Common Sense

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September 18

Lewis Kornhauser, NYU School of Law
Governance Structures, Legal Systems and the Concept of Law

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September 25

Klaus Günther, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Legal Pluralism and the Universal Code of Legality: Globalisation as a Problem of Legal Theory

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October 2

Sharon Street, NYU Philosophy
Excerpts from: Evolution and the Nature of Reasons

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October 9

Ronald Dworkin, NYU School of Law
"Rights and Terror" & "What Are Human Rights?"

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October 16

Edward Baker, University of Pennsylvania
Excerpt from Constitutional and Philosophical Foundations of Libertarian Socialism

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October 23

Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina, Philosophy
"The Meanings of Lives" & "The True, the Good and
the Lovable: Frankfurt's Avoidance of Objectivity"

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October 30

Mattias Kumm, NYU School of Law
Towards a Constitutional Theory of the Relationship between National and International Law

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November 6

Philippe Van Parijs, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Europe's Three Language Problems

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November 13

Professor Susan Moller Okin
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2003-2004, Stanford University, Department of Political Science
"Multiculturalism and Feminism:
No Simple Question, No Simple Answers"

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November 20

Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University Law
Excerpt from FREE CULTURE: How Big Media Uses Technology And The Law To Lock Down Culture And Control Creativity

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Further Readings
1. Chapter 10: Property
2. Afterword

December 4

J.H.H. Weiler, NYU School of Law
A Constitution for Europe? Some Hard Choices.

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