Panels
A provisional timetable is available here, and a copy of the provisional panel timetable can be found here.
Please note: This information may be subject to change
Day One: Thursday March 27th 2008
Human Rights I: Thursday 27th March 11:00-12:30 Room A7
Chair: Lucy Sargisson
1. Kenneth Christie: Human Rights and Justice in South-East Asia
2. Akihiro Ueda: Legitimate Restrictions on Human Rights in Japan
3. Sadaf Farooq: Human Rights Violations: Afghanistan
Human Rights II: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room A24
Chair: Kerri Woods
1. Jennifer Szende: Expanding Human Rights: A Liberal Dilemma
2. Steve On: Human Rights: An Alternative Interpretation and a Defence
3. Peter Jones: A Defence of the Philosophical Conception of Human Rights
Human Rights III: Friday 28th March 09:00-10:30 Room A7
Chair: Kenneth Christie
1. Kerri Woods: Rorty’s Contribution to Human Rights Theory
2. Caroline Walsh: Human Rights and Cross-Cultural Dialogue
3. Filip Spagnoli: Cultural Relativism and the Universality of Human Rights
Human Rights IV: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room A7
Chair: Caroline Walsh
1. Marinos Cleanthous: The Right to Privacy and the Right to Publicity
2. Piero Moraro: The Several Values of Civil Disobedience
3. Alfonso Donoso: Taking Identity Seriously: Identity Defences and Criminal Sentencing
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism I: Thursday 27th March 11:00-12:30 Room A25
Chair: Gulshan Khan
1. Bettina Scholz: Advancing Cosmopolitanism Unintentionally
2. Huw Williams: Rethinking Rawls: The Law of Peoples and Global Egalitarianism
3. Graham Long: Global Justice and Political Liberalism
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism II: Thursday 27th March 15:15-16:45 Room A25
Chair: Judith Lichtenberg
1. Jaakko Kuosmanen: Liberal Pluralism and the Rights of Exit
2. Jonathan Seglow: Freedom of Movement and Open Borders
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism III: Friday 28th March 09:00-10:30 Room A25
Chair: Jonathan Seglow
1. Megan Kime: A Global Solidaristic Community?
2. Cara Nine: Land, Territory, and Self-Determination
3. David Owen: Migration, National Responsibility and Global Justice: a (Sympathetic) Critique of David Miller
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism IV: Thursday 27th March 13:30-15:00 Room A25
Chair: Nick Cartwright
1. Christopher Bennett: The Duties of a Citizen of Nowhere
2. Joshua Kassner: A Defence of Positive Duties to Distant Others
3. Adina Preda: Rights Enforcement
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism V: Thursday 27th March 11:00-12:30 Room A26
Chair: Seth Lazar
1. Nick Cartwright: Supremacy and Subsidiarity in EC Law: Reconciling Supranational Principles with Local Governance
2. Xavier Marquez: Models of Political community: the Nation-state and Other Stories
3. David Wiens: Taking the Higher-order Road: International Institutions and Global Justice
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism VI: Friday 28th March 09:00-10:30 Room A26
Chair: Margaret Moore
1. Nils Holtug: Equality, Priority and Cosmopolitan Justice
2. Sune Laegaard: Normative Implications of Transnationalism: The Case of the Danish Cartoon Controversy
3. Alex Brown: Global Equality of Resources: an Extension of Ronald Dworkin’s Theory of Distributive Justice to the International Sphere
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism VII: Saturday 29th March 09:00-10:30 Room A26
Chair: David Lefkowitz
Framing Cosmopolitan Solidarity
1. Patti Lenard: Is Global Solidarity really ‘Solidarity’?
2. Christine Strahele: National and Cosmopolitan Solidarity
3. Lea Ypi: Politically Constructing Solidarity: the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Avant-garde
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism VIII: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room A25
Chair: Miriam Ronzoni
The Nature and Value of Group Self-determination
1. David Lefkowitz: On the Foundation of Rights to Political Self-Determination
2. Joshua Kassner: A Defense of a Derivative Understanding of Group Self-Determination
3. Sciaraffa, Stefan: The (In)compatability of Self-Determination and Democratic Governance
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism IX: Thursday 27th March 13:30-15:00 Room A26
Chair: Tony Burns
1. Judith Lichtenberg: The Realm of Charity and the Realm of Justice
2. Laura Valentini: Beyond Social and Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Between International and Global Justice
3. Renante Pilapil: When Justice Turns Global: Between Rawls and Cosmopolitanism
Climate Change I: Thursday 27th March 15:15-16:45 Room A24
Chair: Stephen Gardiner
1. Thomas Schramme: Criticising Consumer Choices
2. Marjukka Laakso: On Liberal Normative Principles of Global Environmental Decision-Making
3. Jessica Fahlquist: Individual Responsibility for Climate Change
Justice and the Environment I: Friday 28th March 09:00-10:30 Room A24
Chair: Tim Hayward
1. Christine Loew: Biodiversity, Property Rights, and Global Justice
2. Jan Deckers: ‘A Healthy Diet’: What does it mean?
Justice and the Environment II: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room A43
Chair: Tony Burns
1. Rasmus Karlsson: A Global Fordian Compromise? And what would it mean for the transition to sustainability?
2. Tim Hayward: Reframing Sustainability Debates in Terms of Ecological Debt
3. Mathew Humphrey: The Return of the Primitive? Post-Ecologism and Democratic Politics
Justice, War and Conflict I: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room A26
Chair: James Pattison
1. Alexander Barker & Teddy Harrison: Victims and Perpetrators in Post- conflictual Contexts
2. Laura-Lee Smith: The Abuse of Idealism
3. Alex Leveringhaus: Humanitarian Intervention and the Problem of Combatant Liability
Justice, War and Conflict II: Saturday 29th March 09:00-10:30 Room A26
Chair: Alexander Barker
1. James Pattison: The Privatisation of Military Force: A Challenge to Just War Theory?
2. Seth Lazar: The Right to Kill? A critique of Jeff McMahan’s theory of just killing in war.
3. Daniel Schwartz: Consent, Fear, and Peace Settlements
International Criminal Law I: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room B43
Chair: Mark Wenman
1. Melanie Klinkner: Forensic Science Expertise and International Criminal Justice
2. Alejandro Chehtman: What makes an international crime?
3. Luqman Zakariyah: Confession and Retraction in Islamic Criminal Law from the perspective of legal maxims, with especial reference to Amina Lawal and Safiyatu in Northern Nigeria
Indigenous Rights I: Saturday 29th March 09:00-12:30 Room A7
Chair: Niall Scott
1. Yael Peled: Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Language: denaturalizing and politicizing linguistic erosion
2. Neomal Silva: Why we shouldn’t return stolen (indigenous) territory; a critique Allen Buchanan’s position
Theories of Global Justice I: Thursday 27th March 13:30-15:00 Room A24
Chair: Huw Williams
1. Nkiruka Ahiauzu: Comparative Communitarianisms in African Legal Thought
2. Fabian Schuppert: Equality and Cultural Diversity: an interest based theory of global distributive justice
3. Maximilian del Mar and Oche Onazi: The Moral Climates of International Economic Institutions and Access to Public Goods and Services in Nigeria
Theories of Global Justice II: Friday 28th March 09:00-10:30 Room B40
Chair: Peter Jones
1. Miriam Ronzoni: The Global Order: A Case of Background Injustice?
2. Regina Kreide: Global Justice and Democracy
3. Paul Roberts & Lucy Carver: Penal Law and Global Justice
Justice and Democracy I: Friday 28th March 09:00-12:30 Room B43
Chair: Mark Wenman
1. Shaina Wang: Justice in Democratic Transition and Transition in the Concept of Justice: a Deconstructive Approach
2. Rafael-Rodriguez Prieto: Global Justice and Democracy: Revisiting Ralph Miliband’s Political Thought
3. Nicole Roughan: Joint Coercion, Relational Coercion, and Distributive Justice
Justice, Development, Health and Medicine I: Thursday 27th March 15:15-16:45 Room A26
Chair: Jan Deckers
1. Shlomi Segall: The Health of Nations: A Responsibility Account
2. Vishwas Devaiah: Should Premature use of Stem Cells be Allowed to Treat Patients in the Guise of Innovative Therapies?
3. Nir Eyal & Samia Hurst: Medical Brain Drain and Locally-relevant Training.
Justice, Development and Economy I: Saturday 29th March 09:00-10:00 Room B43
Chair: Kok-Chor Tan
1. Saptarshi Ghosh: The Changing Paradigm of Development in Economic Policy-Making: Approaching Privatisation in the New India
2. Clara Brandi: Global Justice and Multilateral Trade Governance
Global Poverty I: Saturday 29th March 09:00-10:30 Room A24
Chair: Gulshan Khan
1. Mandy Bosma: Constraints imposed upon a duty to alleviate global poverty: the role of self-regarding considerations
2. Kristian Hoyer Toft: Global Justice and Genomics, the case of GM plants
3. Laura-Lee Smith: Poverty is your Natural Disaster
Global Governance and the Media I: Thursday 15:15-16:45 Room A7
Chair: Chris Bennett
Global Governance and Media: does Media Ownership affect Democracy?
1. Rafael Rodrígues Prieto
2. José Maria Seco Martínez
3. Isabel Lucina Cid
A provisional timetable is available here, and a copy of the provisional panel timetable can be found here.
Please note: This information may be subject to change
Day One: Thursday March 27th 2008
Human Rights I: Thursday 27th March 11:00-12:30 Room A7
Chair: Lucy Sargisson
1. Kenneth Christie: Human Rights and Justice in South-East Asia
2. Akihiro Ueda: Legitimate Restrictions on Human Rights in Japan
3. Sadaf Farooq: Human Rights Violations: Afghanistan
Human Rights II: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room A24
Chair: Kerri Woods
1. Jennifer Szende: Expanding Human Rights: A Liberal Dilemma
2. Steve On: Human Rights: An Alternative Interpretation and a Defence
3. Peter Jones: A Defence of the Philosophical Conception of Human Rights
Human Rights III: Friday 28th March 09:00-10:30 Room A7
Chair: Kenneth Christie
1. Kerri Woods: Rorty’s Contribution to Human Rights Theory
2. Caroline Walsh: Human Rights and Cross-Cultural Dialogue
3. Filip Spagnoli: Cultural Relativism and the Universality of Human Rights
Human Rights IV: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room A7
Chair: Caroline Walsh
1. Marinos Cleanthous: The Right to Privacy and the Right to Publicity
2. Piero Moraro: The Several Values of Civil Disobedience
3. Alfonso Donoso: Taking Identity Seriously: Identity Defences and Criminal Sentencing
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism I: Thursday 27th March 11:00-12:30 Room A25
Chair: Gulshan Khan
1. Bettina Scholz: Advancing Cosmopolitanism Unintentionally
2. Huw Williams: Rethinking Rawls: The Law of Peoples and Global Egalitarianism
3. Graham Long: Global Justice and Political Liberalism
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism II: Thursday 27th March 15:15-16:45 Room A25
Chair: Judith Lichtenberg
1. Jaakko Kuosmanen: Liberal Pluralism and the Rights of Exit
2. Jonathan Seglow: Freedom of Movement and Open Borders
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism III: Friday 28th March 09:00-10:30 Room A25
Chair: Jonathan Seglow
1. Megan Kime: A Global Solidaristic Community?
2. Cara Nine: Land, Territory, and Self-Determination
3. David Owen: Migration, National Responsibility and Global Justice: a (Sympathetic) Critique of David Miller
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism IV: Thursday 27th March 13:30-15:00 Room A25
Chair: Nick Cartwright
1. Christopher Bennett: The Duties of a Citizen of Nowhere
2. Joshua Kassner: A Defence of Positive Duties to Distant Others
3. Adina Preda: Rights Enforcement
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism V: Thursday 27th March 11:00-12:30 Room A26
Chair: Seth Lazar
1. Nick Cartwright: Supremacy and Subsidiarity in EC Law: Reconciling Supranational Principles with Local Governance
2. Xavier Marquez: Models of Political community: the Nation-state and Other Stories
3. David Wiens: Taking the Higher-order Road: International Institutions and Global Justice
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism VI: Friday 28th March 09:00-10:30 Room A26
Chair: Margaret Moore
1. Nils Holtug: Equality, Priority and Cosmopolitan Justice
2. Sune Laegaard: Normative Implications of Transnationalism: The Case of the Danish Cartoon Controversy
3. Alex Brown: Global Equality of Resources: an Extension of Ronald Dworkin’s Theory of Distributive Justice to the International Sphere
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism VII: Saturday 29th March 09:00-10:30 Room A26
Chair: David Lefkowitz
Framing Cosmopolitan Solidarity
1. Patti Lenard: Is Global Solidarity really ‘Solidarity’?
2. Christine Strahele: National and Cosmopolitan Solidarity
3. Lea Ypi: Politically Constructing Solidarity: the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Avant-garde
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism VIII: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room A25
Chair: Miriam Ronzoni
The Nature and Value of Group Self-determination
1. David Lefkowitz: On the Foundation of Rights to Political Self-Determination
2. Joshua Kassner: A Defense of a Derivative Understanding of Group Self-Determination
3. Sciaraffa, Stefan: The (In)compatability of Self-Determination and Democratic Governance
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism IX: Thursday 27th March 13:30-15:00 Room A26
Chair: Tony Burns
1. Judith Lichtenberg: The Realm of Charity and the Realm of Justice
2. Laura Valentini: Beyond Social and Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Between International and Global Justice
3. Renante Pilapil: When Justice Turns Global: Between Rawls and Cosmopolitanism
Climate Change I: Thursday 27th March 15:15-16:45 Room A24
Chair: Stephen Gardiner
1. Thomas Schramme: Criticising Consumer Choices
2. Marjukka Laakso: On Liberal Normative Principles of Global Environmental Decision-Making
3. Jessica Fahlquist: Individual Responsibility for Climate Change
Justice and the Environment I: Friday 28th March 09:00-10:30 Room A24
Chair: Tim Hayward
1. Christine Loew: Biodiversity, Property Rights, and Global Justice
2. Jan Deckers: ‘A Healthy Diet’: What does it mean?
Justice and the Environment II: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room A43
Chair: Tony Burns
1. Rasmus Karlsson: A Global Fordian Compromise? And what would it mean for the transition to sustainability?
2. Tim Hayward: Reframing Sustainability Debates in Terms of Ecological Debt
3. Mathew Humphrey: The Return of the Primitive? Post-Ecologism and Democratic Politics
Justice, War and Conflict I: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room A26
Chair: James Pattison
1. Alexander Barker & Teddy Harrison: Victims and Perpetrators in Post- conflictual Contexts
2. Laura-Lee Smith: The Abuse of Idealism
3. Alex Leveringhaus: Humanitarian Intervention and the Problem of Combatant Liability
Justice, War and Conflict II: Saturday 29th March 09:00-10:30 Room A26
Chair: Alexander Barker
1. James Pattison: The Privatisation of Military Force: A Challenge to Just War Theory?
2. Seth Lazar: The Right to Kill? A critique of Jeff McMahan’s theory of just killing in war.
3. Daniel Schwartz: Consent, Fear, and Peace Settlements
International Criminal Law I: Friday 28th March 11:00-12:30 Room B43
Chair: Mark Wenman
1. Melanie Klinkner: Forensic Science Expertise and International Criminal Justice
2. Alejandro Chehtman: What makes an international crime?
3. Luqman Zakariyah: Confession and Retraction in Islamic Criminal Law from the perspective of legal maxims, with especial reference to Amina Lawal and Safiyatu in Northern Nigeria
Indigenous Rights I: Saturday 29th March 09:00-12:30 Room A7
Chair: Niall Scott
1. Yael Peled: Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Language: denaturalizing and politicizing linguistic erosion
2. Neomal Silva: Why we shouldn’t return stolen (indigenous) territory; a critique Allen Buchanan’s position
Theories of Global Justice I: Thursday 27th March 13:30-15:00 Room A24
Chair: Huw Williams
1. Nkiruka Ahiauzu: Comparative Communitarianisms in African Legal Thought
2. Fabian Schuppert: Equality and Cultural Diversity: an interest based theory of global distributive justice
3. Maximilian del Mar and Oche Onazi: The Moral Climates of International Economic Institutions and Access to Public Goods and Services in Nigeria
Theories of Global Justice II: Friday 28th March 09:00-10:30 Room B40
Chair: Peter Jones
1. Miriam Ronzoni: The Global Order: A Case of Background Injustice?
2. Regina Kreide: Global Justice and Democracy
3. Paul Roberts & Lucy Carver: Penal Law and Global Justice
Justice and Democracy I: Friday 28th March 09:00-12:30 Room B43
Chair: Mark Wenman
1. Shaina Wang: Justice in Democratic Transition and Transition in the Concept of Justice: a Deconstructive Approach
2. Rafael-Rodriguez Prieto: Global Justice and Democracy: Revisiting Ralph Miliband’s Political Thought
3. Nicole Roughan: Joint Coercion, Relational Coercion, and Distributive Justice
Justice, Development, Health and Medicine I: Thursday 27th March 15:15-16:45 Room A26
Chair: Jan Deckers
1. Shlomi Segall: The Health of Nations: A Responsibility Account
2. Vishwas Devaiah: Should Premature use of Stem Cells be Allowed to Treat Patients in the Guise of Innovative Therapies?
3. Nir Eyal & Samia Hurst: Medical Brain Drain and Locally-relevant Training.
Justice, Development and Economy I: Saturday 29th March 09:00-10:00 Room B43
Chair: Kok-Chor Tan
1. Saptarshi Ghosh: The Changing Paradigm of Development in Economic Policy-Making: Approaching Privatisation in the New India
2. Clara Brandi: Global Justice and Multilateral Trade Governance
Global Poverty I: Saturday 29th March 09:00-10:30 Room A24
Chair: Gulshan Khan
1. Mandy Bosma: Constraints imposed upon a duty to alleviate global poverty: the role of self-regarding considerations
2. Kristian Hoyer Toft: Global Justice and Genomics, the case of GM plants
3. Laura-Lee Smith: Poverty is your Natural Disaster
Global Governance and the Media I: Thursday 15:15-16:45 Room A7
Chair: Chris Bennett
Global Governance and Media: does Media Ownership affect Democracy?
1. Rafael Rodrígues Prieto
2. José Maria Seco Martínez
3. Isabel Lucina Cid