Centre for Legal Theory

CLT Seminars


Date Paper Titles Presenters
2 December 2019 Expressive Claims about Symbolic Establishment

Farrah Ahmed
The University of Melbourne
18 October 2019 Reconsidering ‘Revolution by Constitution’: Law, Social Change, Justice

Mark Goodale
University of Lausanne
08 October 2019 The Recognition of Authority: Roles, Relations, and Reasons Nicole Roughan
The University of Auckland
 
03 October 2019 Rights Enable Agency

Siegfried Van Duffel
Nazarbayev University
 
23 September 2019 Human and Minority Rights Protection: The Promise of Multiple Diversity Governance Joseph Marko
University of Graz
 
19 September 2019 Self-Defence, Compensation and Tort Law Sandy Steel
University of Oxford
 
14 August 2019 Optimal Contractual Remedies for Risk Averse Agents with Bilateral Private Information

Kenneth Khoo
National University of Singapore
8 July 2019 Transnational Networked Authority

Oren Perez
Bar-Ilan University
4 June 2019 Sino-British Conceptions of Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the 19th Century

Ivan Lee
National University of Singapore
14 March 2019 The Basis of Authorities of Law under the Circumstances of Plurality of Laws
 
Tatsuya Yokohama
Shizuoka University

5 March 2019

Global Investment Rules as a Site for Moral Inquiry Steven Ratner
University of Michigan

18 August 2018 Logocratic Method
 
Scott Brewer
Harvard Law School
 
13 July 2018 Term Limits II: Express and Implied Terms Frederick Wilmot-Smith
University of Oxford
 
14 May 2018 Public and Private Distortions: the case against fiduciary models of state-indigenous relationships Nicole Roughan
The University of Auckland
 
21 April 2017 Fifty years after: The legacy of Ronald Dworkin’s Model of Rules
 
Nigam Nuggehalli
Azim Premji University
 
13 January 2017 Constitutional Pluralism: Chronicle of a Death Foretold? Michael A. Wilkinson
London Science of Economics
 
24 January 2017 The Oscar Wilde Trials, or the Interpretation of Legal Interpretation Marco Wan
The University of Hong Kong
 
20 October 2016 Crisis Law as Constitutional Law: In the Courts we trust? Constantinos Kombos
University of Cyprus
 
5 April 2016 Kant, Rights and Balancing Alec Stone Sweet
National University of Singapore
 
15 October 2015 Transnational Justice from the Perspective of ASEAN and Asian Regionalism He Baogang
Nanyang Technological University
 
16 September 2015 Public Reason and Constitutional Theory
 
Wojciech Sadurski
The University of Sydney
 
20 August 2015 The Private-Law Constitution
 
Hugh Collins
University of Oxford
Chantal Mak
University of Amsterdam
 
25 May 2015 The Current Condition and Future Directions of Legal Theory
 
Maksymilian Del Mar
Queen Mary University of London
 
27 April 2015 The Mystery of the State: State-concept, State-theory and State-making in Michael Oakeshott & Carl Schmitt
 
Nehal Bhuta
European University Institute
12 March 2015 Reducing Homicide Globally by 50% in the Next 30 years
Universal Mechanisms and Evidence-Based Policy

 
Manuel Eisner
University of Cambridge
24 February 2015  Causation and Contribution
 
Robert Stevens
University of Oxford
 
27 January 2015 The Other 'Separability Thesis': Why Don't Legal Theory and Comparative Law Talk to One Another?
 
John Gillespie
Monash University
21 August 2014 The Battle for the Euro: The German Federal Constitutional Court vs. the European Central Bank

Michael Wilkinson
London School of Economics
April 2014 Macaulay, Codification and the Indian Penal Code: A Study in Reputation

 
Sundram Soosay
National University of Singapore
November 2013 Promise Made Pure

 
Daniel Markovits
Yale Law School
September 2013 Thinking about Justice

 
Mathias Risse
Harvard University
August 2013 It's Only Words: On Meaning and Mens Rea
[See (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 155]
 
Findlay Stark
University of Cambridge
May 2013 Dworkin and the Common Law

 
Sundram Soosay
National University of Singapore
March 2013 We All Make Mistakes: A 'Duty Of Virtue' Theory of Restitutionary Liability for Mistaken Payments
 
James Penner
University College London
February 2013 Why Constitutional Rights Matter

 
Alon Harel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
July 2012 The Normativity of Law

 
Liam Murphy
New York University