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Legal Theory at Queen's
Visitors
The Faculty of Law at Queen’s regularly welcomes distinguished visiting lecturers in legal theory. Current and recent legal theory visitors are listed below.
A complete schedule of current visitors, with information on lecture dates, times, locations and topics, is available here:
http://law.queensu.ca/events/lectureshipsVisitorships.html
Legal Theory Visitors 2011-2012
Brian Leiter (Chicago), "Why Tolerate Religion"
Abraham Drassinower (Toronto), "Subject Matter, Scope, and User Rights in Copyright Law"
Alon Harel (Hebrew University), topic TBA
Fred Schauer (Virginia), topic TBA
Andrew Gold (DePaul), "The New Concept of Loyalty in Corporate Law"
Recent Legal Theory Visitors
Jens Ohlin (Cornell), “The Bounds of Necessity: Torture Under International Criminal Law”
Barbara Fried (Stanford), “Risk and Rights: Is There a Coherent Alternative to Aggregation”
Scott Hershovitz (Michigan), “Harry Potter and the Trouble with Tort Theory”
Eduardo Peñalver (Cornell), “Land Virtues”
Arthur Ripstein (Toronto), Symposium on Force and Freedom
Seana Shiffrin (UCLA), “Freedom of Thought is the Foundation of Freedom of Speech”
Stephen Smith (McGill), “Rights, Remedies and Causes of Action”
Benjamin Zipursky (Fordham), “Torts as Wrongs”