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Visiting Fellows Program: Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy

The Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy is soliciting applications for its Visiting Fellows program. This program is intended to attract scholars in law and philosophy who can contribute to the life of the Rutgers law and philosophy community. We welcome scholars from any stage of their career who would like to spend a semester or the academic year at Rutgers Law in Camden, New Jersey, adjacent to Philadelphia. We will provide office space, a computer and IT support, and a very modest research stipend. Applicants will need to provide their own funding.

The Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy is among the most active such centers in the nation. In the past twelve months alone, we have hosted conferences on criminal law theory, law and neuroscience, and tort theory. A full list of the events that we have hosted is available here: http://lawandphil.rutgers.edu/past-conferences.

To apply, please email [email protected] with your CV.

Rutgers symposium on Sen's Idea of Justice -- April 15-16

The Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, based at the Rutgers School of Law-Camden, 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 symposium's proceedings will be published in a special issue of the Rutgers Law Journal.  Schedule and registration details appear after the fold.

A (Modestly Deflationary) Contractualist Accommodation of Interpersonal Aggregation?

A great deal of ink has been spilled attempting to show that contractualism, alternately, can or cannot accommodate “numbers” in a plausible way. Contractualism aspires to provide an attractive and theoretically robust alternative to consequentialism and the unrestricted interpersonal aggregation that it implies (foundationally anyway), but the abiding worry about the contractualist approach to aggregation has been that it proves too much: while it rejects appealing to numbers in some cases where that rejection seems correct, it also rejects appealing to numbers where numbers seem clearly relevant or even dispositive. What I want to suggest here is a modestly deflationary way that contractualism might be able to accommodate the relevance of numbers.

Rutgers conference: Human Rights in Theory and Practice

Conference: Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Date: Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Location: Rutgers University School of Law-Camden

Description:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and in recognition of the UDHR’s 60th anniversary, the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy will host a one-day conference featuring panels on a range of philosophical and legal aspects of human rights.