Law's Rule: The Rule of Law's Bold Claim

Professor Gerald J. Postema (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

The Students’ Association for Philosophy of Law (TBSP UJ) is honoured to present a lecture organized by the Department of Legal Theory at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland:

May 7th 2014, 18:00, Refektarz Hall on Olszewskiego 2

Lecture "Law's Rule: The Rule of Law's Bold Claim" by Gerald Postema from University of North Carolina.

To obtain a text which is the basis of the lecture, please send an e-mail to [email protected]

Gerald J. Postema has published extensively in legal and political philosophy and ethics. He received the George J. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Art and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow (Bellagio), Medlin Fellow (National Humanities Center) Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, and Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence). In 2013, he will take up the post of Arthur L. Goodhart Distinguished Visiting Professor of Legal Science (Cambridge University). He has edited the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law and Law & Philosophy (with Michael Corrado). He has published Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Common Law World (2011), Bentham and the Common Law Tradition (1986/1989) and has edited Racism and the Law (1997), Rationality, Conventions, and the Law (1998), Philosophy and the Law of Torts (2001), and two volumes of critical essays on Bentham, Jeremy Bentham: Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy (2002). Currently, he is working on a collection of Sir Matthew Hale's writings on jurisprudence, and a book on Hume's theory of justice.

More information: http://philosophy.unc.edu/people/faculty/gerald-postema