Newark, NJ – Rutgers School of Law–Newark, home to one of the top criminal law theory faculties in the country, will host a “Conference on the Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law” on Friday and Saturday, September 25-26, 2009. Conference organizers are Antony Duff, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling, and Stuart P. Green, Rutgers School of Law–Newark. Full program and registration information will be available later this month. 

Speakers will include:

•   Lawrence Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law
•   Andrew Ashworth, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
•   Vera Bergelson, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
•   Mitchell Berman, University of Texas School of Law
•   Richard Dagger, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University
•   Donald Dripps (to be confirmed), University of San Diego School of Law
•   Antony Duff, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling
•   Kimberly Ferzan, Rutgers School of Law–Camden
•   John Gardner, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
•   Stuart P. Green, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
•   Adil Haque, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
•   Mireille Hildebrandt, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
•   Douglas Husak, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
•   Dan Kahan (to be confirmed), Yale Law School
•   Nicola Lacey (to be confirmed), Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
•   Matt Matravers, Department of Politics, University of York
•   Paul Roberts, School of Law, University of Nottingham
•   Victor Tadros, University of Warwick School of Law
•   Francois Tanguay-Renaud, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
•   Malcolm Thorburn, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University
•   Christopher Wellman, Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis
•   Peter Westen, University of Michigan Law School 
•   Lucia Zedner (to be confirmed), Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Papers from the conference will be published in a volume titled Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law, edited by Antony Duff and Stuart Green, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Other contributors to the volume will include Markus Dubber (University of Toronto Faculty of Law), Michael Moore (University of Illinois College of Law), and Ken Simons (Boston University School of Law).

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