CCJHR Presents:
Professor Jeremy Waldron
- 27 May 2014
'Dignity and Respectful Coercion' with Professor Jeremy Waldron
Professor Jeremy Waldron,
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford and University Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Date: June 5th 2014
Time: 5.30pm – 7pm
Venue: West Wing 6, The Quad, University College Cork
ALL WELCOME
There is no registration fee for this event. Advance booking is not required
This public lecture is hosted in conjunction with the Annual Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights PhD student conference. Further details and full programme for the conference is available at: http://www.ucc.ie/en/ccjhr/news/fullstory-476217-en.html
Biography Professor Waldron has written and published extensively in jurisprudence and political theory. His books and articles on theories of rights, on constitutionalism, on the rule of law, and on democracy, judicial review, property, torture, security, and homelessness are well known, as is his work in historical political theory. Professor Waldron gave the second series of Seeley Lectures at Cambridge University in 1996, the 1999 Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University, the Spring 2000 University Lecture at Columbia, the Wesson Lectures at Stanford in 2004, the Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School in 2007, the Tanner Lectures at Berkeley in Spring 2009, the Holmes Lectures at Harvard Law School in 2009, and the Hamlyn Lectures in Law in the UK in 2011. He travels widely and has delivered public lectures all over the world, from Buenos Aires to Jerusalem. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011 and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998. In April 2011, he was awarded the American Philosophical Society's prestigious Phillips Prize for lifetime achievement in jurisprudence.
