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)
Video Recording

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

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

*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. For more information, please follow this link..

   
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