CS-IVR – Canadian Section of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

Information on the activities of the Canadian Section of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

Call for Papers: The Canadian Section of the IVR (CS-IVR) will meet as an affiliate of the CPA at Brock University, St Catherines, Ontario, Thursday May 29, 2014

Location: Room 209 Lowenberger Residence, Brock University, St Catharines, ON

The IVR accepts papers devoted to subjects in law and legal theory, moral and political theory. Submitted papers (and commentaries on them) are circulated (password protected) via the IVR Website (http://phil.uregina.ca/cs-ivr) and the authors and commentators briefly summarize their points to open discussions at the meeting.

There is no specific theme for this year’s meeting. However, we would welcome papers on the theme of the next International meeting of the IVR in Washington, DC (July 27 to Aug1, 2015): Law, Reason and Emotion. In addition, we would like to call attention to the McMaster University conference (May 30 to June 1) on Ronald Dworkin’s legacy. Papers on Dworkin’s work would also be welcome at the IVR meeting.

Deadlines

  • Due by Friday, February 7, 2014: commitment to send a principal paper or commentary. To help with organizing, please send nbrett@dal.ca a note indicating that you intend to present a principal paper or commentary. Brief abstracts of principal papers should also be sent. A reminder will be sent in early February.
  • Due by Monday, April 28: principal papers
  • Due by Friday, May 23: commentaries
  • Meeting on Thursday, May 29

Principal papers (up to 10,000 words) and commentaries (up to 1200 words) should be sent to the CS-IVR webmaster David Elliott (elliotda@uregina.ca), with a copy at (nbrett@dal.ca).

Nathan Brett, Executive Director

Please forward this call for papers to others who may be interested. If you wish to post this call for papers please print the attached copy.

Revised Program

8:30- 8:45 Arrival and Introductions

Freedom, Rights and Moralism

8:45 — 9:15 1. Michael Borgida (UWO) Legal Moralism, Locke’s Letter on Toleration and the Charter
Commentaries: Marc Ramsay

Discussion

9:15 – 9:45 2. Marc Ramsay (Acadia) Ripstein’s Kantian Objection to Slave Contracts
Commentaries: Jan Narveson
Discussion

9:45-10:15 3. Susan Dieleman (Dalhousie) Humiliation and Participation: An Epistemological Defence of Placing Limits on Free Speech
Commentaries: Roger Shiner
Discussion

10:15 — 10:30 Break

Equality and Discrimination

10:30 — 10:55 4. Charles-Maxine Panaccio (Ottawa) Two Views of Discrimination
Discussion

10:55– 11:25 5. Nathan Brett (Dalhousie) Envy and Equality: Rawls v. Dworkin
Commentaries: Kyle Johannsen, Alistair Macleod, Jan Narveson
Discussion

11:30 — 12:00 Business Meeting

12:00 — 1:00 Lunch

Human Rights, Justice, Democracy

1:00 — 1:25 6. Alistair Macleod (Queens) Justifying Human Rights: Meeting Challenges
Discussion

1:25 — 1:55 7. Jennifer Szende (Montréal) Territorial Rights, Colonialism, and Climate Change
Commentaries: Sheldon Wein

Discussion

1:55 — 2:25 8. David Rondel (Nevada) Appraising Justice as Larger Loyalty
Commentaries: Susan Dieleman

Discussion

2:25 — 2:50 9. David Lea (Sharjah) Democracy and Law Making from the Left and Right
Discussion

2:50 — 3:00 Break

Crime and Punishment

3:00 — 3:30 10. Ken Nickel (Ambrose) Forgivable Line-Crossing? Discerning the Distinction between Non-culpable Homicide and Wrongful Death
Commentaries: Roger Shiner

Discussion

3:30 — 4: 00 11. Roger Shiner (UBCO) Digital Intellectual Property and the Criminal Law
Commentaries: Jennifer Szende, Jan Narveson, Nathan Brett Discussion

4:00 — 4:30 12. Meghan Winsby and Samantha Brennan (UWO) Micro Sanctions: an Exploration
Commentaries: Sheldon Wein

Discussion

4:30 -4:55 13. Alex Wellington (Ryerson) Corporate Responsibility and Liability to Punishment: Hart’s Sea Captain Revisited
Discussion

6:30 Dinner at the Wellington Court, 11 Wellington St, St Catharines

Papers Received (Login required.)

  1. Nathan Brett, “Envy, Equality and Distributive Justice: Rawls v. Dworkin”
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  2. Michael Borgida, “A Lockean Case Against the Legitimacy of Legal Moralism”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  3. Susan Dieleman, “Humiliation and Participation: Revisiting the Epistemological Argument for Freedom of Expression”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  4. David Lea, “An analysis of the Democracy and Law making from the perspectives of the Left and the Right “
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  5. Alistair M. Macleod, “Justifying Human Rights: Meeting Legitimate Challenges”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  6. Ken Nickel, “Forgivable Line-Crossing? Discerning the Distinction between Non-culpable Homicide and Wrongful Death”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  7. C-M. Panaccio, “Two Views of Discrimination “
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  8. Marc Ramsay, “Ripstein’s Kantian Objection to Slave Contracts”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  9. David Rondel, “Appraising Justice as Larger Loyalty”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  10. Roger Shiner, “Digital Intellectual Property and the Criminal Law”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  11. Jennifer Szende, “Territorial Rights, Colonialism, and Climate Change”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  12. Alex Wellington, “Corporate Responsibility and Liability to Punishment: Hart’s Sea Captain Revisited”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  13. Meghan Winsby and Samantha Brennan, “Micro-Sanctions: a Philosophical Exploration”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  

Commentaries

  1. Nathan Brett, “Comments on Copyright and Ontological Instability”
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  2. Susan Dieleman, Commentary: David Rondel’s Appraising Justice as Larger Loyalty
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  3. Kyle Johannsen, Commentary on Nathan Brett’s “Envy, Equality and Distributive Justice: Rawls v. Dworkin.”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  4. Alistair Macleod, “Envy and Equality: brief comments on the backdrop to Nathan Brett’s paper”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  5. Jan Narveson, Comments on Nathan Brett’s, “Envy, Equality and Distributive Justice: Rawls v. Dworkin”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  6. Jan Narveson, Comments on Marc Ramsay’s “Ripstein’s Kantian Objection to Slave Contracts”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  7. Jan Narveson, Comments on Michael Borgida’s “A Lockean Case Against the Legitimacy of Legal Moralism”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  8. Jan Narveson, Comments on Roger Shiner’s, “Digital Intellectual Property and the Criminal Law”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  9. Marc Ramsay, Commentary on Michael Borgida “A Lockean Case Against the Legitimacy of Legal Moralism”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  10. Roger Shiner, “Beatty and the Nickel Defence”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  11. Roger Shiner, Comments on Susan Dieleman’s, “Humiliation and Participation: Revisiting the Epistemological Argument for Freedom of Expression”
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  12. Jennifer Szende, Comments on Roger Shiner’s “Digital Intellectual Property and the Criminal Law” 
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  13. Sheldon Wein, Commentary on Jennifer Szende’s “Territorial Rights, Colonialism, and Climate Change” 
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF:  
  14. Sheldon Wein, Commentary on Meghan Winsby’s and Samantha Brennan’s “Micro-Sanctions: a Philosophical Exploration” 
    PDF:  WORD:  RTF: