Justification Beyond the State: Philosophy and International Law

Yale Political Theory Workshop & Yale Law School

Justification Beyond the State: Philosophy and International Law

5 December, 2014

New York, Yale University
President's Room, Woolsey Hall

Presented by:
In collaboration with “Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence” and “Transnational Justice – Leibniz Research Group” of Goethe University at Frankfurt/Main

With the Support of the Kempf Memorial Fund at the Yale MacMillan Center, and the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at the Yale Law School

 Program of the Workshop:

BREAKFAST AND COFFEE FOR PARTICIPANTS

Greetings and Opening Words: 10:00-10:15 am

Session I.  10:15-12:15 pm
Global Governance, Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect

Chair: Stefan Gosepath (Freie Universitat, Berlin)

Speaker: Cristina Lafont, "Sovereignty and the International Protection of Human Rights" (Northwestern University)

With the participation of Darrel Mollendorf (University of Frankfurt), Scott Shapiro (Yale University), Neil Walker (Visiting; Yale Law
School)

LUNCH BREAK – 12:15-1:30 PM

Session II.  1:30-3:30 pm
Developments in Global Governance and Administrative Law

Chair: Turkuler Isiksel (Columbia University, Princeton University)

Speaker: Eyal Benvenisti, "Why do global governance bodies owe you an accounting?" (Tel-Aviv University)

With the participation of Judith Resnik (Yale University, Law School), Charles Sable (Visiting Professor of Law, Yale)

COFFEE BREAK; 3:30-4:00 PM

Session III.  4:00-6:00 pm
The Jurisprudence of Dignity

Chair: Seyla Benhabib (Yale University and Adjunct, Yale Law)

Speaker: Christopher McCrudden, “Is There Dignity Beyond the State?: Judicial Approaches to the Supposed Universal” (Belfast/Michigan/Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin)

With the participation of Mattias Kumm (Visiting; Yale Law), Rainer Forst (J.W. Goethe University) and Reva Siegel (Yale Law)

6:00- 7:00 pm  COCKTAILS AND DRINKS FOR PARTICIPANTS AND AUDIENCE

DINNER AT THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB FOR GUESTS AT 8 PM