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Conference Announcement: American Society for Political & Legal Philosophy in New Orleans (with the AALS)

By Lawrence Solum

The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP) is pleased to announce that it will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with that of the Association of American Law Schools in New Orleans on January 6, 2010. The topic is ?Getting to the Rule of Law.? All three sessions of the program will be held in Hilton New Orleans Riverside, 2 Poydras Street, Belle Chasse Room, Third Floor. Below is the program:

Getting to the Rule of Law

I. Getting to the Concept of the Rule of Law: 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Principal paper (philosophy): Jeremy Waldron, New York University
Commentator (law): Robin West, Georgetown University
Commentator (political science): Corey Brettschneider, Brown University
Chair: James E. Fleming, Boston University

II. Maintaining or Restoring the Rule of Law After September 11, 2001: 1:30p.m.-3:15 p.m.
Principal paper (political science): Benjamin Kleinerman, Michigan State University
Commentator (law): Curtis Bradley, Duke University
Commentator (philosophy): Lionel McPherson, Tufts University
Chair: Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University

III. Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions: 3:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Principal paper (law): Jane Stromseth, Georgetown University
Commentator (political science): Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago
Commentator (philosophy): Larry May, Vanderbilt University
Chair: Allen Buchanan, Duke University

Reception: 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Elmwood, Third Floor, Hilton New Orleans Riverside

There is no registration fee. The principal papers and commentaries ? together with additional papers on the topic ? will be published in Nomos, the annual yearbook of the ASPLP. If you have questions about the program, please contact Professor James E. Fleming, who is Editor of Nomos: jfleming@bu.edu. If you are interested in political and legal philosophy, and would like to join the ASPLP and subscribe to Nomos, please go to http://www.political-theory.org/asplp/ or email theasplp@gmail.com.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on December 01, 2009 (boomark / email).