| Dead/Lines: Contemporary Issues in Legal and Political Theory |
 Welcome to Dead/Lines: Contemporary Issues in Legal and Political Theory, an AHRC Doctoral Colloquium, to be held at the School of Law, Old College, South Bridge, University of Edinburgh, from Wednesday 28 May to Thursday 29 May 2008.
The Colloquium is sponsored by: The Colloquium will host eight (8) doctoral presenters, and eight (8) doctoral commentators. Funding has been obtained to reimburse modest travel and accomodation costs for all presenters and commentators. There will be two keynote speakers: Professor Hans Lindahl (Tilburg), and Professor Mike Otsuka (UCL). A final word will be delivered by Professor Zenon Bankowski. Academics from Universities in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling will chair the sessions, including Neil MacCormick, Neil Walker, Scott Veitch, Claudio Michelon, Johan van Der Walt, Emilios Christodoulidis, Stephen Tierney, and Rowan Cruft. The selected papers will be considered for publication in Res Publica: a Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy. |
| Selected Speakers and Commentators |
The pool of applicants for the Colloquium was extremely competitive, with abstracts flowing in from all around Europe. The following speakers and commentators (as matched to the speaker) have been chosen (in order of appearance on the program): | SPEAKER | SPEAKER'S TOPIC | COMMENTATOR | | Juliane Ottmann, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Brussels | Inclusion and Exclusion: Solidarity in the Welfare State: The Question of Being In or Out | Denis Franco Silva, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | | Craig Reeves, School of Law, King’s College, London | Exploding the Limits of Law: Arendt on Freedom and the Death of Judgement | Noora Arajärvi, European University Institute, Florence
| | Mathilde Cohen, Columbia University, New York and Université Paris X | Giving Reasons and Having Reasons: the Fine Line between Telling Truth and Lying | Matteo Bonotti, School of Politics, University of Edinburgh and Fuentes, McGill University, Canada | | Stephanie Silverman, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford | Redrawing the Lines of Control: What Political Action Undertaken by Refugees Can Tell Us about International Politics | Martina Ciganikova, Department of Political Science, Vienna School of Governance | | Hent Kalmo, London School of Economics | From Politics to Law: the Decisive Moment | Carl Lebeck, University of Stockholm | | Richard Child, University of Manchester | Justice, Endorsement, and Intrinsic Value: Why the Co-National Relationship Cannot Ground Duties of Justice | Ambrose Lee, University of Stirling | | Irene Garcia Aguilera, University Autonoma of Madrid | An Urgent Concept of Toleration | Lucas Lixinski, European University Institute, Florence | | | | |
 The theme for the Colloquium is Dead/Lines. The theme has been chosen to facilitate the exploration of a broad range of issues in legal and political theory that engage with the prospect of a ‘dead/line.’ It could be a deadline in the sense of an impending time, a question of some urgency that necessitates re-thinking and new solutions. It could be a deadline in the sense of borders and boundaries, an observation on lines that are drawn or even fractured, on dispersions and diasporas.
The theme might be taken to denote an end or loss of some sort, engaging in perspectives on death, absence, grief and irreversibility. Or, it might be interpreted with a focus on new alternatives and life-lines; law, politics and combinations of the two addressing possible deadlock. Possible topics include: the treatment of past and future generations in political and legal theory, the treatment of refugees and migrants, war and/or weapons of mass destruction, climate change, territorial delimitation, political transition, emergency rule, humanitarian intervention, globalisation, and social movements. Possible theoretical echoes include: systems theory, theories of legal and value pluralism, post-positivism, theories of sovereignty and nationhood, and environmental political philosophy. |
| Draft Presentation Papers |
Below are the draft presentation papers submitted to the Colloquium. These papers are drafts only, and are not for citation. All rights reserved by authors. Juliane Ottmann, Inclusion and Exclusion: Solidarity in the Welfare State: The Question of Being In or Out  Craig Reeves, Exploding the Limits of Law: Arendt on Freedom and the Death of Judgement Mathilde Cohen, Giving Reasons and Having Reasons: the Fine Line between Telling Truth and Lying
Stephanie Silverman, Redrawing the Lines of Control: What Political Action Undertaken by Refugees Can Tell Us about International Politics Hent Kalmo, From Politics to Law: the Decisive Moment Richard Child, Justice, Endorsement, and Intrinsic Value: Why the Co-National Relationship Cannot Ground Duties of Justice Irene Garcia Aguilera, An Urgent Concept of Toleration Wednesday 28 May 2008 9:30 Registration Tea and Coffee [Lorimer ROOM] CHAIRED by Professor Emilios Christodoulidis
10.00 – 10.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Professor Hans Lindahl The 'Right to Have Rights': Borders and Thresholds of Distributive Justice [LECTURE THEATRE 175]
10.30 – 11.00 DISCUSSION [LECTURE THEATRE 175] 11.00 – 11.15 BREAK Session 1: CHAIRED by Professor Johan van der Walt [Lorimer ROOM]
11.30 – 12.00 PAPER PRESENTATION by Juliane Ottmann, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Brussels, Inclusion and Exclusion: Solidarity in the Welfare State: The Question of Being In or Out
12.00 – 12.15 COMMENTARY by Denis Franco Silva, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
12.15 - 12.45 DISCUSSION 12.45 – 14.00 Sandwich Lunch [Lorimer ROOM] Session 2: CHAIRED by Dr. Scott Veitch [Lorimer ROOM]
14.00 – 14.30 PAPER PRESENTATION by Craig Reeves, School of Law, King’s College, London, Exploding the Limits of Law: Arendt on Freedom and the Death of Judgement
14.30 – 14.45 COMMENTARY by Noora Arajärvi, European University Institute
14.45 – 15.15 DISCUSSION 15.15 – 16.00 BREAK Session 3: CHAIRED by Dr. Rowan Cruft [Lorimer ROOM]
16.00 – 16.30 PAPER PRESENTATION by Mathilde Cohen, Columbia University, Universite Paris X, Giving Reasons and Having Reasons: the Fine Line between Telling Truth and Lying
16.30 – 17.00 COMMENTARY by Carlos Fuentes, McGill University, Canada and Matteo Bonotti, School of Politics, University of Edinburgh
17.00 – 17.30 DISCUSSION 17.30 - 19.30 Film Showing and Pizza Evening [Lorimer Room] Thursday 29 May 2008 9.30 – 10.00 Coffee/Tea [Moot Court ROOM] CHAIRED by Professor Cecile Fabre
10.00 – 10.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Professor Micheal Otsuka, Why it Matters that Some are Worse Off than Others: An Argument against the Priority View [LECTURE THEATRE 175]
10.30 – 11.00 DISCUSSION [LECTURE THEATRE 175] 11.00 – 11.15 BREAK Session 4: CHAIRED by Dr. Stephen Tierney [Moot Court ROOM]
11.30 – 12.00 PAPER PRESENTATION by Stephanie Silverman, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Redrawing the Lines of Control: What Political Action Undertaken by Refugees Can Tell Us about International Politics
12.00 – 12.15 COMMENTARY by Martina Ciganikova, Department of Political Science, Vienna School of Governance
12.15 - 12.45 DISCUSSION 12.45 – 14.00 Sandwich Lunch [Moot Court ROOM] Session 5: CHAIRED by Professor Neil Walker [Moot Court ROOM]
14.00 – 14.30 PAPER PRESENTATION by Hent Kalmo, London School of Economics, From Politics to Law: the Decisive Moment
14.30 – 14.45 COMMENTARY by Carl Lebeck, University of Stockholm
14.45 – 15.15 DISCUSSION 15.15 – 15.30 BREAK Session 6 (ADAM SMITH FOUNDATION SESSION): CHAIRED by Dr. Carl Knight [Moot Court ROOM]
15.30 – 16.00 PAPER PRESENTATION by Richard Child, University of Manchester, Justice, Endorsement, and Intrinsic Value: Why the Co-National Relationship Cannot Ground Duties of Justice
16.00 – 16.15 COMMENTARY by Ambrose Lee, University of Stirling
16.15 – 16.45 DISCUSSION 16.45 – 17.00 Coffee/tea break [Moot Court ROOM] Session 7: CHAIRED by Dr. Claudio Michelon [Moot Court ROOM]
17.00 – 17.30 PAPER PRESENTATION by Irene Garcia Aguilera, University Autonoma of Madrid, An Urgent Concept of Toleration
17.30 – 17.45 COMMENTARY by Lucas Lixinski, European University Institute
17.45 – 18.15 DISCUSSION 18.15 – 18.30 LAST WORD by Professor Zenon Bankowski [Moot Court ROOM] 19.00 OFFICIAL DINNER [LOCAL RESTAURANT] | Administrative Contact and Acknowledgements |
 For any queries regarding the Colloquium please contact Maksymilian Del Mar: M.T.Del-Mar@sms.ed.ac.uk. The Organising Team for the Colloquium comprises Maksymilian Del Mar (PhD student, Edinburgh), Conrado Hubner Mendes (PhD student, Edinburgh), Lilian Moncrieff (PhD student, Glasgow), Michal Rozynek (PhD student, Edinburgh), Hakeem Yusuf (PhD student, Glasgow), Arabella Millett (PhD student, Edinburgh), Alessandra Asteriti (PhD student, Glasgow), Chris McCorkindale (PhD tudent, Glasgow), Haris Psarras (PhD student, Edinburgh), Piero Moraro (PhD student, Stirling), and Oche Onazi (PhD student, Edinburgh).
All pictures on this website are by Alicja Rogalska.
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