210.2A sec. 001 - Colloquium in Law, Philosophy & Political Theory (Fall 2025)
Instructor: Joshua Cohen
Instructor: R. Jay Wallace
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Units: 3
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
F 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Law 141
From August 22, 2025
To November 21, 2025
Course End: November 21, 2025
Class Number: 32329
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Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 8
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This course is a colloquium for discussion of scholarly work-in-progress in moral, political, and legal theory. The class creates a space for students to engage directly with philosophers, political theorists, and legal scholars working on normative questions, with the goal of fostering critical thinking about concepts of value and developing analytical thinking and writing skills. Another aim is to bring together people from different disciplines and perspectives who have strong normative interests or who speak to issues philosophers and theorists should know something about.
The theme for the Fall 2025 workshop is “Expression: Its Value and its Norms.” We'll look at new and recent work on free speech in a range of contexts, including political speech, artistic expression, online speech, campus protest, and academic freedom. Presenters are Eugene Volokh (Hoover), Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley), Jacob Mchangama (Vanderbilt), Rae Langton (Cambridge), David Cole (Georgetown), Seana Shiffrin (UCLA), Sarah Song (Berkeley), Mary Anne Franks (George Washington), Daphne Keller (Stanford), Adrienne Stone (Melbourne), Erin Miller (USC), Lea Ypi (LSE), and Ben Eidelson (Harvard).
This semester, the colloquium is co-taught by Josh Cohen and R. Jay Wallace.
The format of the course is as follows: for the sessions with guest presenters, a designated student commentator will lead off with a 15-minute comment on the paper. The presenter will have 5-10 minutes to respond and then we will open up the discussion to all in attendance, including both enrolled and non-enrolled students, faculty, and visitors. After a short break at 2:00 p.m., discussion will continue with only enrolled students for the final 50 minutes.
This is a cross-listed/room-shared course with the Philosophy and Political Science Departments. Students may enroll through Law (Law 210.2A), Philosophy (Philosophy 290), or Political Science.
The first meeting of the course will be on Friday, August 22, 2025.
Exam Notes: (P) Final Paper
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP)
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