"The Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory" in the School of Philosophy organises a lunchtime seminar every week. The MSPT seminar normally takes place on Mondays from 12:30 to 2:00 in Coombs seminar room D. The current convenor for the MSPT seminar series is Oliver Rawle (oliver.rawle@anu.edu.au). Recent and upcoming papers are listed below.
MSPT Seminars are announced on both the the philsoc mailing list, and the CMSPT mailing list.
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Past Events
Chris Armstrong (Southampton): The Resource Trade, Accountability, and Law
In his book Blood Oil, Leif Wenar argues that we have compelling moral reasons to cease buying natural resources from unaccountable leaders (…
Jiewuh Song (Seoul National University): Human Rights, Democracy, and the Conception of Persons as Equals
The discontinuity thesis about the human right to democracy says that, although democracy is a requirement of domestic justice, it cannot plausibly…
Aaron James (UC Irvine): Investor Rights as Nonsense (on Stilts)
Investor treaties increasingly recognize a right to be compensated for “indirect expropriation.” This essay argues that certain ideas of…