2009-2010 SEMINARS


All seminars will be held in ROOM 036 of the HNES BUILDING at York University, unless stipulated otherwise
(#31 on this map), from 2.30-4.30pm

Refreshments will be served

FALL TERM


Friday, 25 September 2009
Title:  International Criminal Law and the Inner Morality of Law
Speaker: Larry May (Vanderbilt)
Respondent: Margaret Martin (UWO)
Paper (.pdf)
 Video Recording

Friday, 16 October 2009
Title:  The Legitimacy of International Human Rights
Speaker: Samantha Besson (Fribourg)
Respondent: Sophia Reibetanz Moreau (Toronto)
Video Recording available upon request


Friday, 13 November 2009
Title: Contra Politanism: Against the Moral Teleology of Political Forms
Speaker: Jacob T. Levy (McGill)
Respondent: Stefan Sciaraffa (McMaster)
Paper (.pdf)
Video Recording

Friday, 27 November 2009
Title:  Not a System but an Order: Explaining the Legality of the European Union*
Speaker: Michael Giudice (York Philosophy/Osgoode)
& Keith Culver (UniverSud Paris)
Respondent: Wil Waluchow (McMaster/Osgoode)
Video Recording


WINTER TERM

Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Title: The Evolving State and the Future of Global Trade
Speaker: Dennis Patterson (EUI - Florence)
Respondent: Ruth Buchanan (Osgoode)
Paper (.pdf)
Video Recording

Friday, 5 February 2010
Title: Is Modern Religious Liberty Sufficient for the Islamic Legal
Maqsad (‘Ultimate Objective’) of Hifz al-din (‘Preserving Religion’)?
Speaker: Andrew March (Yale)
Respondent: Mohamad Al-Hakim (York Philosophy)
Paper (.pdf)

Friday, 19 February 2010
Title: Using Noncombatants as Shields
Speaker: Cécile Fabre (Edinburgh)
Respondent: Idil Boran (York Philosophy)
Paper (.pdf)


From the speaker:

Dear seminar participants
I am deeply grateful, in advance, for the opportunity to receive critical comments on this paper, the conclusion of which will undoubtedly strike many of you as deeply controversial. The paper is part of a book I am currently writing on the ethics of war, from a cosmopolitan point of view. A summary of what the book aims to do can be found on my website. Finally, the paper rests on a number of assumption, which I hope are clearly stated in the paper. Perhaps the most important one is the view that, contrary to orthodox war ethics, soldiers' right to kill in war largely depends on the justness of their war ad bellum. Those of you who are not familiar with this particular debate will find a short exposition of the contrast between the orthodox account, and the one which I endorse (alongside, most notably, Jeff McMahan) in a article I recently wrote 'Guns Food and Liability to attack in war', section III. The article is available on the aforementioned website.

*Friday, 12 March 2010
Title: Proportionality in Self-Defense and War
Speaker: Jeff McMahan (Rutgers)
Respondent: François Tanguay-Renaud (Osgoode); Craig Scott (Osgoode)

*This seminar will be held in Osgoode Hall Law School, Room 107, and will
be a discussion of Professor McMahan's 'Or 'Emet Lecture, to be delivered
on Thursday, 11 March 2010. Participants are encouraged to attend on both days.

   
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