A Theory of Justice 50 Years Later: Listen to the Talks

Last December there was a conference in honour of the 50^th anniversary of the publication of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice. It was held at the University of Virginia School of Law. Micah Schwartzman did a magnificent job in putting the conference together. Lori Watson and I helped out as well. We currently are working on putting together a book that will include many of the papers from the conference (as well as a couple of others from people who couldn’t attend).

 

Below is a list of the speakers and their papers. Recordings of all the talks are available here.

 

Panel 1: Justice and Democracy

• Simone Chambers (University of California, Irvine): "John Rawls and Contemporary Democratic Theory."
• Derrick Darby (Rutgers University): "The Fair Value of Voting Rights."
• David Reidy (University of Tennessee): "Keeping the Faith: Progressive Democracy from Croly to Rawls."
  

Panel 2: Race, Religion, and Ideal Theory

• Larry Krasnoff (College of Charleston): "Rawls, Race, and Reparative Justice."
• Cécile Laborde (University of Oxford): "Rawls, Race, and Religion."
• Anthony Laden (University of Illinois - Chicago): "Ideal Theory for a Non-Ideal World: How to Make Justice as Fairness Anti-Racist."

Panel 3: Education, Labour, and Justice

• Gina Schouten (Harvard University): "Sectoral Justice and the Case of Education."
• Sabine Tsuruda (Queen's University): "Labour, Association, and the Priority of Liberty." 
  

 

Keynote: Charles Larmore (Brown University): "The Permanent Achievement of A Theory of Justice"

Panel 4: Justice and Legitimacy

• Andrew Lister (Queen's University): "Conditional vs. Unconditional Duties in Justice as Fairness."
• Simon May (Florida State University): "The Lexical Priority of Political Legitimacy."
• Cynthia Stark (University of Utah): "The Basic Structure, Structural Injustice, and the Limits of Fair Equality of Opportunity."