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Philosophical Issues in International Law

 

2006 UNCG Symposium in Philosophy

 

April 7 – 9, 2006

Dogwood Room, Elliot University Center

University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Papers are now available on-line for those who have registered for the conference: 2006 UNCG Symposium in Philosophy Papers.

 

Schedule:

Friday, April 7

                8:00 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Larry May (Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis)

“Elements of the Crime of Aggression”

Commentator: Simon Cabulea May (Philosophy, Virginia Tech)

Saturday, April 8

                9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Kristen Hessler (Philosophy, Iowa State):

“State Sovereignty and International Human Rights Law”

Commentator: Win-chiat Lee (Philosophy, Wake Forest)

                11:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

                1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Terry Nardin (Political Science, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee):

“Defending the (International) Rule of Law”

Commentator: Jeffrey Brand-Ballard (Philosophy, George Washington)

                3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Coffee

                4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Steven Ratner (Law, Michigan)

“Predator and Prey: Seizing and Killing Suspected Terrorists Abroad”

Commentator: Mortimer Sellers (Law, University of Baltimore)

                7:00 p.m.

Reception

Sunday, April 9

                10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

John Tasioulas (Philosophy, Oxford)

“Customary International Law and the Quest for Global Justice”

Commentator: Andrew Altman (Philosophy, Georgia State)

 

Abstracts for the papers will be made available in mid-March.  We hope to make drafts of the papers available to those who have registered for the conference at that time as well.

 

Registration: UNCG faculty, students, and staff – free; all others, $35.

Please make checks payable to Department of Philosophy, UNCG.

 

For additional information, please contact Professor David Lefkowitz at d_lefkow(at)uncg.edu