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True Believers: Collaboration and Opposition under Soviet Totalitarianism听with Anne Applebaum

Monday, February 3, 2014
5:30 p.m.
Devlin Hall, Room 101

Anne Applebaum听is a columnist for the Washington Post and Slate, and a historian of Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of several books including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, as well as Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2012and won the Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. Her reviews appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and the New Republic, and she also writes occasional columns in the Daily Telegraph. She directs the program on Global Transitions at the Legatum Institute in London, and in 2012-2013 she was the Phillipe Roman visiting Professor of History and International Relations at the London School of Economics. Between 2001 and 2006 she was a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. She is a former deputy editor of the Spectator magazine, a former political columnist for the Evening Standard newspaper, and a former Warsaw correspondent for the Economist.

The International Legal Legacy of the Global War on Terror听with Kim Lane Scheppele

Wednesday, February 12, 2014
12:00 p.m.
Barat House, Boston College Law School

Kim Lane Scheppele听is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values as well as Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She joined the Princeton faculty in 2005 after nearly a decade on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she was the John J. O'Brien Professor of Comparative Law. Scheppele鈥檚 work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law, particularly in constitutional systems under stress. After 1989, Scheppele studied the emergence of constitutional law in Hungary and Russia, living in both places for extended periods.听 After 9/11, Scheppele researched the effects of the international "war on terror" on constitutional protections around the world. Her many publications on both post-1989 constitutional transitions and on post-9/11 constitutional challenges have appeared in law reviews, social science journals and multiple languages. In the last two years, she has been a public commentator on the transformation of Hungary from a constitutional-democratic state to one that risks breaching constitutional principles of the European Union.听

The Shadow War听with Mark Mazzetti

Wednesday, February 26, 2014
5:30 p.m.
Stokes Hall, Room 195S

Mark Mazzetti听a national security correspondent for听The New York Times. In 2009, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the intensifying violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Washington鈥檚 response, and he has won numerous other major journalism awards, including the George Polk Award (with colleague Dexter Filkins) and the Livingston Award, for breaking the story of the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes. Mazzetti has also written for the听Los Angeles Times,听U.S. News & World Report, and听The Economist. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his family.

Prisoners' Votes and Judges' Powers: Foreign Parables and Home Truths听with John Finnis

Thursday, March 13, 2014
5:30 p.m.
Fulton Hall, Room 511

John Finnis听is a professor of law at both Oxford University and the University of Notre Dame. His work centers on legal scholarship and the philosophy of law, and he teaches courses on jurisprudence, political theory, and constitutional law. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of Gray鈥檚 Inn.

Professor Finnis earned an L.L.B. from Adelaide University in 1961 and a doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1965. He has previously taught law at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Malawi, and Boston College Law School. He has published widely in legal theory, moral and political philosophy, moral theology, and history. He is the author of听Natural Law and Natural Rights听(1980),听Fundamentals of Ethics(1983),听Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory听(1998) and听The Collected Essays of John Finnis听(2011).

颁辞苍蹿别谤别苍肠别听On Violence: Ethical, Political and Aesthetic Perspectives听

March 14 鈥� March 15, 2014
Stokes Hall, Room 195S

Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University
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March 14 路 5:30 p.m.

Elaine Scarry, Harvard University
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March 15 路 3:45 p.m.

Critical Theory as Political Philosophy?
Reflections on Honneth and Hegelianism听with Robert Pippin

Tuesday, March 18, 2014
5:30 p.m.
Higgins Hall, Room 300

Robert Pippin听is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Chicago.

Working primarily within the German philosophical tradition, Professor Pippin has written extensively on self-consciousness, conceptual change, freedom, and issues within political philosophy. He is a leading scholar of several philosophers, including Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marcel Proust, Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, and Henry James. Notably, however, his scholarship also extends to both ancient philosophy and critical theory, and his works have explored several interdisciplinary subjects, such as literature, modern art, and film.

Professor Pippin holds a B.A. from Trinity College and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Currently a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he has also been an Alexander von Humboldt fellow and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Among others, his books include听Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness听(1989),听Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture听(1991),听Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy听(2011), and听Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy听(2013).

Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethic of Incentives听with Ruth Grant

Friday, March 28, 2014
4:00 p.m.
Higgins Hall, Room 300, Boston College

Confucianism and Liberal Democracy: Uneasy Marriage or Productive Partnership?听with Joseph Chan

Thursday, April 10, 2014
12:00 p.m.
Barat House, Boston College Law School
Space is limited. Lunch will be served. RSVP by 4/07.

Joseph Chan听is the head of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. He earned his undergraduate degree in political science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, his M.Sc. at the London School of Economics, and his D.Phil. at Oxford University.

Professor Chan researches in the areas of contemporary liberalism, political philosophy, and civil society. Specifically, he has concentrated on the ways in which Confucian political thought can mix with liberal democratic traditions and the implications for this on human rights, social justice, and civil liberty. Decoupling democratic institutions from their typical foundation in liberal political philosophy and individual sovereignty, he advocates that they can be grounded on Confucian principles in such a way that democratic governance and participation are strengthened, not hindered. In this way, the spirit of the Confucian ideal can address modern social and political challenges. He explores these issues in his book听Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times听(January, 2014).

Professor Chan has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and a founding director of the University of Hong Kong Centre for Civil Society and Governance. His articles have been published in听China Quarterly,听Ethics,听History of Political Thought,听Journal of Chinese Philosophy,听Journal of Democracy,听Oxford Journal of Legal Studies,听Philosophy and Public Affairs, and听Philosophy East and West.

In the Balance: Law and Politics on the Roberts Court

Tuesday, April 22, 2014
5:30 p.m.
Barat House, Boston College Law School
Space is limited. Dinner will be served.

Mark Tushnet听is听William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Professor Tushnet, who graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, specializes in constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law. His research includes studies examining (skeptically) the practice of judicial review in the United States and around the world. He also writes in the area of legal and particularly constitutional history, with works on the development of civil rights law in the United States and (currently) a long-term project on the history of the Supreme Court in the 1930s.

Aziz Huq听is Assistant Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. He earned his BA听summa cum laude听in International Studies and French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996 and his law degree from Columbia Law School in 2001, where he was awarded the John Ordronaux Prize. He clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2001鈥�02) and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States (2003鈥�04). After clerking he worked as Associate Counsel and then Director of the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. He has also been a Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group.听

His research and teaching interests include constitutional law, national security and counterterrorism, federal jurisdiction, legislation, human rights, and comparative constitutional law.

Kent Greenfield听is Professor of Law and Law Fund Research Scholar at Boston College Law School, where he teaches and writes in the areas of business law, constitutional law, decision making theory, legal theory, and economic analysis of law. He is the past Chair of the Section on Business Associations of the American Association of Law Schools. In addition, he is the author of the book 鈥溾�� published in 2011 from Yale University Press, Prunsoop Publishing (in Korean), and BiteBack Publishing (UK). Kirkus Reviews stated in its review: 鈥淭he author deftly debunks prevailing dogma about the infallibility of free markets, especially important during a time when, as he reports, one in seven Americans are poor." He is also the author of the book 鈥淭he Failure of Corporate Law鈥� published by University of Chicago Press. The book has been called 鈥渟imply the best and most well-reasoned progressive critique of corporate law yet written,鈥� and the Law and Politics Book Review said that 鈥渋t merits a place alongside Berle and Means, [and] Easterbrook and Fischel.鈥�

Ken Kersch