Symposium on The Ethics of the Rule of Law

The symposium will be held on Friday, November 22 in the McDonough School of Business’s Hariri Building (room 350) on the campus of Georgetown University.

 

This event will be held in the Hariri building, Room 350.

8:15 – 8:30 am – | Welcome
John Hasnas, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics

8:30 – 10:00 am | Panel I – Theory
Moderator: John Hasnas, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Essayists:
Brookes Brown, University of Toronto: Legitimacy, Political Obligation, and the Rule of Law beyond the Unitary State
Jordan Wallace-Wolf, University of Arkansas, Little Rock: Law, the Rule of Law, and Trigger Laws
Filipa Paes, University of Oxford: Juridical Bivalence and The Rule of Law

10:15 – 11:45 am | Panel II – Boundaries
Moderator: Sahar Akhtar, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Essayists:
Scott Cummings, UCLA: What Do Lawyers Owe Democracy?
Claire Finkelstein, University of Pennsylvania: The Impact of Presidential Immunity on the Chain of Command and Military Allegiance to Rule of Law
Brenner Fissell, Villanova Law School: The Ethics of Military Influence on Politics

12:00 – 1:15 pm | Lunch Recess

1:30 – 3:00 pm | Panel III – Historical and Intellectual Context
Moderator: William English, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Essayists:
Todd Zywicki, Antonin Scalia Law School: Conservatism and the Rule of Law
Michael Munger, Duke University: Can Rule of Law Survive the Tension Between the Needs for Predictability and Discovery?
Richard Boyd, Georgetown University, King, Rousseau, and the Formal–not Substantive– dimensions of Natural Law Theory.

3:15 – 4:45 pm | Panel IV- Applications
Moderator: TBD
Essayists:
Chris MacDonald, Ted Rogers School of Management: Vigilantism, Ethics, and the Rule of Law
Avia Pasternak, University of Toronto: Three Readings of Violent Protests
Samuel Director, University of Richmond: Rule of Law and Rule of Experts in Public Health

4:45 – 5:00 pm | Closing remarks
John Hasnas
Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics

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