Michaelmas Term
Monday 8 October
Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hugo Grotius
Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
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Monday 15 October
The Constitutionalism of Imperial Expansion
Stephen Holmes (NYU)
Introduction
Monday 22 October
Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere
Signy Gutnick Allen (LSE)
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Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge)
Monday 29 October
Can we write an ethical history of the early common law?
Philippa Byrne (Oxford)
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Commentator: Jenny Benham (Cardiff)
Monday 5 November
Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas
Corey Robin (CUNY)
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Joint with US History Seminar
Monday 12 November
Coercion in a Subjective World
Daniel Luban (Yale)
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Commentator: Nakul Krishna (Cambridge)
Monday 19 November
Republicanism and Egalitarianism: A Historical Perspective
Annelien de Dijn (Utrecht University)
Introduction
Monday 26 November
'Reform or Revolution', redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918-19 German Revolution
Marius Ostrowski (Oxford)
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Commentator: Gareth Stedman-Jones (QMUL)
Lent Term
21 January
Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War
Duncan Kelly (Cambridge)
4 February
Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body
Shatema Threadcraft (Dartmouth)
Introduction
11 February
1789 in 1954: Human Rights and the Algerian Revolution
Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge)
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Commentator: Arthur Asseraf
18 February
Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism
Andrew Hartman (Illinois State)
Introduction
Joint with US History Seminar
25 February
Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Britain and Europe, 1698-1715
Catherine Arnold (Memphis)
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Commentator: Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
4 March
The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets, and Morals from the Enlightenment to the Present
Alan Kahan (Versailles/St. Quentin-en-Yvelines)
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Commentator: Lea Ypi (LSE)
11 March
Sovereignty as Constituent Power in Weimar Germany
Lucia Rubinelli (Cambridge)
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Commentator: Will Selinger (UCL)
Easter Term
29 April
The Plantation’s Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective
Adom Getachew (Chicago)
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Commentator: Musab Younis (Queen Mary London)
6 May
Francis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London
Sam Zeitlin (Chicago)
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Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge)
13 May
Seeing through lies: Plato on how to avert tyranny
Jill Frank (Cornell)
Introduction
20 May
The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples and Giambattista Vico’s La Scienza Nuova
Felix Waldmann (Cambridge)
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Commentator: John Robertson (Cambridge)