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Seminar Announcement: Dworkin at NYU

By Lawrence Solum

To honor the laureate of the Holberg Prize for 2007, NYU School of Law will host a seminar focusing on themes central to the work of Professor Ronald Dworkin. Professor Dworkin will comment on each of the following presentations:

10:00 AM Beyond Judicial Minimalism Cass Sunstein Karl N. Llewellyn Dist. Service Prof. of Jurisprudence University of Chicago Law School

11:00 AM Social Rights and Legal Interpretation Lawrence Sager Dean, John Jeffers Research Chair in Law and Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

12:00 PM Who Is Free Speech For? Who is For Free Speech? Kathleen Sullivan Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean Stanford University

2:15 PM Why Equality? Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr. Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity Harvard University

3:10 PM Constitutional Democracy: Towards a Third Conception Janos Kis Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy New York University; Professor Central European University, Budapest

4:15 PM Interpretive Concepts Liam Murphy Vice Dean and Herbert Peterfreund Professor of Law and Philosophy NYU School of Law

To register, please visit www.law.nyu.edu/alumni/onlineregistration.html, or for more information on the Holberg Seminar, please call (212) 998-6410 or visit www.norway.org/restech/researchnews/holberg+seminar+dworkin.htm.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).