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Symposium on Amartya Sen, Rutgers Law, 15-16 April 2011

Wednesday, 10 November 2010 in Conferences by Kok-Chor Tan | No comments

Symposium on Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice

Friday, April 15th and Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Rutgers University School of Law-Camden

The Institute for Law and Philosophy will host a two-day symposium on Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice (Harvard 2009) on Friday April, 15th and Saturday, April 16th 2011. The conference will feature six presentations on Sen’s recent book and its themes by leading figures in political philosophy: David Estlund (Brown), Samuel Freeman (Penn), Gerald Gaus (Arizona), Erin Kelly (Tufts), Henry Richardson (Georgetown), and Debra Satz (Stanford). Professor Sen will also attend. The symposium¹s proceedings will be published in a special issue of the Rutgers Law Journal.

Attendees must register, and the fee is $25 ($10 for non-Rutgers students).

To register, please send a check payable to Rutgers University to:

Prof. John Oberdiek

Institute for Law and Philosophy

Rutgers School of Law-?Camden

217 N. 5th St.

Camden, NJ 08102

For more information, please contact John Oberdiek at lawandphil@camlaw.rutgers.edu.

Human Rights in Theory and Practice

Thursday, 31 July 2008 in Conferences, Notices by Kok-Chor Tan | No comments

Rutgers School of Law-Camden: 3 October 2008

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and in recognition of the UDHR’s 60th anniversary, the Institute for Law and Philosophy will host a one-day conference featuring panels on a range of philosophical and legal aspects of human rights. Committed participants include Charles Beitz (Princeton), Allen Buchanan (Duke), Roger Clark (Rutgers-Camden), James Nickel (Arizona State), Thomas Pogge (Yale), and Joseph Raz (Columbia/Oxford), with other additions still to come. Details to follow.

Registration is required, and there is a registration fee of $25 ($10 for students). To register, please e-mail and send a check, payable to Rutgers University, to: John Oberdiek, Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, 217 North 5th Street, Camden, NJ 08102.

Organized by John Oberdiek. For details see: http://www.lawandphil.rutgers.edu/upcomingconferences.html