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Conference Announcement: Workshop on Punishment & Justice

By Lawrence Solum

From Thom Brooks:

Workshop on Punishment and Justice
Friday May 21st
Cathleen Edie Room, Abedare Hall, Cardiff University

Questions about the preconditions on theories of punishment have been raised in recent philosophical literature. In particular, the question of what the conceptual connections between social justice and punitive justice might be has come under consideration: must the state ensure a certain level of social justice if it is to justly punish? Can the state justly punish if disadvantage persists?

This series of workshops will bring together theorists from UK institutions working on the topics of punishment and political obligation. The conceptual relationship between social justice and punitive justice will be scrutinised, as will the implications of this for penal policy in liberal democracies.
Workshop Schedule:

Coffee and welcome: 13.45

Session 1 (14.15-15.30)
Professor Matt Matravers (York)
Communicating with Hard Treatment?

Session 2 (15.45-17.15)
Dr Kimberley Brownlee (Manchester)
Ostracism and Retribution

Coffee break (17.15)

Session 3 (17.30-18.45)
Dr Chris Bennett (Sheffield)
Retributivism in theory and practice: the case of multiple and repeat offenders

Dinner: 19.30 (not included in price)

Saturday morning: walk in the Welsh countryside (optional)

Attendance is £15 (waged) £5 (student/unwaged).
To register for the workshop, please send cheques, made payable to Cardiff University, to:

Dr Jules Holroyd
ENCAP (Philosophy section)
Cardiff University
Humanities Building
Colum Drive, CF10 3EU

For further enquiries, please contact HolroydJ@Cardiff.ac.uk

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on April 12, 2010 (boomark / email).