CFP: Legal Philosophy Workshop

We are writing to let you know about the 4th annual Legal Philosophy Workshop (LPW), and to invite you to participate. This year’s LPW will be held at University College London on Friday May 26 and Saturday May 27. George Letsas will be the local organizer.

The LPW is a conference designed to foster reflection on the nature of law and the philosophical issues underlying its different areas. Our aim is to promote work that connects legal philosophy with other branches of philosophy (e.g., moral and political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, or philosophy of action) and to create a venue for the critical examination of different viewpoints about law.

The LPW has become an annual event in venues alternating between North America and Europe. In recent years, the LPW has been hosted by the University of Pennsylvania (2014), the University of Edinburgh (2015), and Queens University (2016). Information about the LPW can be found on our website:

https://sites.google.com/site/legalphilosophyworkshop/home

The format of the workshop is pre-read. We will be discussing 5 to 6 papers, circulated about three weeks in advance. Each session will start with a very short presentation by the author (5-10 minutes). A commentator will then kick-off discussion, the author will respond to the comments, and then the remainder of the session will be dedicated to Q&A.

The purpose of this message is twofold.  First, we would like to invite you to attend the 2017 conference and take part in the discussions.  Our goal is to make the LPW open to everyone who is interested in attending, space permitting. There will be no registration fees. We should note, however, that we cannot cover expenses for this year’s LPW, so you would need to secure your own funding for travel and lodging.

Second, we would like to invite you to submit an abstract or to volunteer to comment.  If you are interested in submitting an abstract, please do so by January 31, 2017. Please limit your abstract to 1,000 words or less. Once we have received abstracts, we aim to put together a diverse programme that we hope will be of interest to a wide range of people within legal philosophy. Please note that this is an open call for abstracts, so you should feel free to forward this information to anyone who you think might be interested in presenting a paper, commenting on a paper, or attending the workshop.