Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference

The Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference was founded in 1996 as a forum for the discussion of work in progress. It is now an annual event. The present organizers are Mitch Berman, David Enoch, Kim Ferzan, Kate Greasley, Scott Hershovitz, Scott Shapiro, and Trish White. If you are interested in attending, please contact one of the organizers. Links below are to the published versions of ALPC papers, not the conference versions.

2023 | King’s College London
Aditi Bagchi | Private Law and Public Discourse
David Enoch | How Nudging Upsets Autonomy
Erin Kelly | Mens Rea, Rights, and Restorative Justice
David Owens | Excuse, Capacity, and Convention
Alex Sarch | Excuse, Justification, and Collapse

2022 | University of Pennsylvania
Chris Essert | Yours and Mine: Property Law in the Society of Equals
Erik Encarnacion | Making Whole by Making Better
Kate Greasley | Mistaken Consent and the Aspiration to Reasonableness
Deborah Hellman | Defining Disparate Treatment
Gideon Rosen | Crime and Consent

2021 | Online
Ezequiel Monti | On the Moral Impact Theory of Law

2019 | Georgetown
Larissa Katz | Blowing Hot and Cold: The Role of Estoppel
Hallie Liberto | The Metaphysics of Mere Permissive Consent
John Oberdiek | It’s Something Personal: On the Relationality of Duty and Civil Wrongs
Fred Schauer | Rightful Deprivations of Rights
Sabine Tsuruda | Working as Equal Moral Agents

2018 | University of Toronto
Scott Hershovitz | Not a Set of Norms
Greg Keating | Value and Precaution
Diana Raffman | Are Borderline Cases a Source of Legal Indeterminacy
Amy Sepinwall | Communicable Complicity and Off-Label Rights
Ekow Yankah | The Sovereign and the Republic: A Republican View of Political Obligation

2017 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Timothy Macklem | The Price We Pay For Justice
Gabe Mendlow | Terror, Treason, and the Reach of the Act Requirement
Sarah Moss | Knowledge and Persons
Jean Thomas | A Model of Rights
Rebecca Stone | Private Law as Self-Defense

2016 | University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Heidi M. Hurd | Debts and the Demands of Conscience
Connie Rosati | Constitutional Realism
Michael Sevel | Obeying the Law
Hanoch Sheiman | What Are Agreements?
John Simmons | Supersession and Moral Rights


2015 | University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Michelle Dempsey | Sexual Penetration and Public Wrongs
Julia Driver | Undermining Promises
Timothy Endicott | Comity among Authorities
John Gardner | The Way Things Used To Be
David Plunkett | The Metalinguistic Dimension of The Dispute Over Legal Positivism

2014 | University of Oxford Faculty of Law
Kimberley Brownlee | Ethical Dilemmas of Sociability
Ori Herstein | Standing to Give Reasons
Dennis Klimchuck | State Estoppel
Rae Langton | The Authority of Hate Speech
Joseph Raz | A hedgehog’s unity of value

2013 | University of Miami School of Law
William Edmundson | Ought We to Do What We Ought to be Made to Do?
Kimberly Ferzan | The Bluff
John Mikhail | 'Any Animal Whatever': Harmful Battery and its Elements as Building Blocks of Moral Cognition
Leslie Green | The Morality in Law

2012 | 
Yale Law School, New Haven
Elizabeth Harman | Understanding Some Cases of Altruism as Permissible Moral Mistakes
Gideon Yaffe | Intending to Aid
Claire Finkelstein | Contracts under Coercion
George Letsas | The DNA of Conventions
Jules Coleman | Liability and Assignability

2011 | 
University of San Diego School of Law
Barbara Herman | No Duty is an Island: Puzzles About Imperfect Duties and the Ethics of Possession
Andrei Marmor | Truth in Law
Natalie Stoljar | What do we want law to be? Philosophical analysis and the concept of law
Jeremy Waldron | Treating Like Cases Alike (in the World)
Lorenzo Zucca | Tolerance or Toleration: How to Deal with Religious Conflicts in Europe


2010 | 
New York University School of Law
Mitch Berman | Slack: A Manifesto
Brian Leiter | Foundations of Religious Liberty: Toleration or Respect?
Samuel Scheffler | The Normativity of Tradition
Sophia Moreau | What is Discrimination?
Scott Shapiro | How to Do Things with Plans


2009 | 
School of Law, King's College London
Irit Samet-Porat | Locus Poenitentiae: Repentance, Withdrawal and Luck
Jonathan Dancy | Practical Reasoning and Inference
Stephen Perry | Political Authority and Political Obligation
Scott Hershovitz | The Role of Authority
James Nickel | Rights and Goals


2008 | 
Yale Law School, New Haven
Stephen Darwall | Authority and Reasons: Exclusionary and Second-Personal
Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco | Is Finnis Wrong? Understanding Normative Jurisprudence
John Oberdiek | Choice, Value, and the Perfection of Distributive Justice
Ben Zipursky | Responsibility in Tort for Harm Inflicted by Others
Jules Coleman | Legality and Legal Content: Some Preliminaries


2007 | 
University of California Berkeley School of Law
Larry Alexander & Kimberly Ferzan | The Essence of Culpability & Negligence
David Enoch | Luck between Morality, Law, and Justice
Deborah Hellman | Discrimination: When is it wrong and why?
Jay Wallace | The Deontic Structure of Morality
Douglas Husak | Constraints on Criminalization


2006 | 
University of California Los Angeles School of Law
Paul Boghossian | What is Relativism?
Seana Shiffrin | The Divergence of Promise and Contract
Roger Shiner | What is a Crime? A Theory of the Legislative Response
Matthew Smith | The Greatest Unity Alongside the Greatest Extension: How Legal Institutions Are Social Practices
Gideon Yaffe | Trying, Acting and Attempted Crimes


2005 | 
University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Brian Bix | Contract Law Theory
John Gardner | What is Tort Law For?
Larry Laudan | The Presumption of Innocence: Material or Probatory
Barbara Levenbook | How a Statute Applies
Kevin Toh | Hart's Expressivism and His Benthamite Project


2004 | 
New York University School of Law
Michael Moore | Causal Relata
Grant Lamond | Precedent as Decision
Jeremy Waldron | Can There Be a Democratic Jurisprudence?
Wil Waluchow | Constitutions as Living Trees
Susan Wolf | Moral Psychology and the Unity of Virtue


2003 | 
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Michael Blake | Liberal Multiculturalism and Asymmetries in Recognition
John Broome | Reasoning
Timothy Macklem | The Reality of Rights
Connie Rosati | Some Puzzles about the Objectivity of Law
Joseph Raz | Interpretation in the Humanities


2002 | 
Yale Law School, New Haven
Michael Bratman | Shared Valuing and Frameworks for Practical Reasoning
Antony Duff | Virtue, Vice, and Criminal Liability: Do we Want an Aristotelian Criminal Law?
Mark Greenberg | How Facts Make Law
Ken Himma | Final Authority: Morally Mistaken Validity Decisions and the Descriptive Adequacy of Inclusive Positivism
Denise Reaume | Beyond Personality: The Territorial and Personal Principles of Language Policy Reconsidered


2001 | 
University of Chicago School of Law
Jules Coleman | Methodology
Alvin Goldman | Quasi-Objective Bayesianism and Legal Evidence
Jody Kraus | The Methodological Commitments of Contemporary Contract Theory
Christopher Kutz | The Judicial Community
Andrew Simester | Rethinking the Offense Principle


2000 | 
Columbia Law School, New York City
Clare Finkelstein | A Puzzle about Hobbes on Self-Defense
Liam Murphy | The Political Question of the Concept of Law
Philip Pettit | Deliberative Democracy and the Doctrinal Paradox
Seana Shiffrin | Paternalism, Unconscionability and Accommodation
David Brink | Legal Interpretation, Objectivity, and Morality


1999 | 
University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Philadelphia
Simon Blackburn | Intention and Tort
John Finnis | Natural Law and the Ethics of Discourse
Heidi Hurd | Duties Beyond the Call of Duty
Ben Zipursky | Pragmatic Conceptualism
Larry Alexander & Emily Sherwin |The Problem of Rules
Kent Greenawalt | no record of topic


1998 | 
University of San Diego School of Law
John Gardner | The Wrongdoing that Gets Results
Leslie Green | Social Conflict and Doctrinal Pluralism
Gerald Postema |Jurisprudence as Practical Philosophy
Thomas Scanlon | Promises and Contracts
Scott Shapiro | Rules and Positivism


1997 | 
Columbia Law School, New York City
Brian Leiter | Objectivity, Morality, and Adjudication
Michael Moore | Liberty and Drugs
Thomas Nagel | Justice and Nature
Donald Regan | no record of topic


1996 | 
University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Philadelphia
Jules Coleman & Arthur Ripstein | Mischief and Misfortune
Frances Kamm | no record of topic
Stephen Perry | Risk, Harm, and Responsibility
Jeremy Waldron | Legislation, Authority, and Voting
Joseph Raz | no record of topic
Hans Oberdiek & Larry Alexander | Roundtable on Searle's Social Reality