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Conference Announcement: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory in Montreal

By Lawrence Solum

Workshop: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory
June 1-3 2010
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Montréal

8:30 am - 9 am Breakfast

Non-ideal Theory after Rawls , 9 am - 10:30 am
Chair and Discussant: Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli (McGill)
Michael Kates (NYU), Justice in Nonideal Theory
Dana Howard (Brown), The Scoundrel and the Visionary: Rawls on Reasonable Hope
Alan Hamlin (Manchester) and Zofia Stemplowka (Reading), Theory, Ideal Theory and Theory of Ideals
Kristina Meshelski (Virginia), Ideal Theory and the Basic Structure

Children and Education, 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Chair and Discussant: Samantha Brennan (UWO)
Andrew Rehfeld (Washington - St. Louis), Responsible Political Rights for Children
Daniel Weinstock (Montréal), Schools as Political Institutions
Douglas William Hanes (McGill), 'Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children!': Children's Suffering and the Ideology of Adulthood

Radically Non-ideal Circumstances: Violence and Historic Injustice, 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm
Chair and Discussant: Burke Hendrix (Franklin & Marshall)
Zachary Williams (UCLA), The Violent Limits of Discourse Ethics
James Sterba (Notre Dame), Reparations and the Requirements of Distributive Justice
Timothy Waligore (Queen's), Non-Ideal Theory and Contexts of Historic Injustice
Ingrid Makus (Brock), The Ethics of Ambiguity: Moral Choice and Deliberation in Resistance to War

Non-ideal Constitutional Theory , 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Chair and Discussant: Yasmin Dawood (Toronto)
Ryan Pevnick (NYU) and Kathleen Doherty (Virginia), Non-Ideal Reasons for Judicial Review
Evan Fox-Decent (McGill) and Evan Criddle (Syracuse), Emergency Powers: Insights from Fiduciary Theory
William Clare Roberts (McGill), Pessimism and Anti-State Politics
Wayne Norman (Duke), How ?Non-Ideal? Must our Theories be for Deliberatively Adversarial Institutions?

WEDNESDAY JUNE 2

8:30 am - 9 am Breakfast

Non-state Actors and Non-ideal Circumstances , 9 am - 10:30 am
Chair and Discussant: Lisa Fuller (SUNY - Albany)
Jennifer Rubenstein (Virginia), Responding to Humanitarian Harms
Emma Saunders-Hastings (Harvard), Valuing Philanthropy: The Charity Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Catherine Lu (McGill), Realizing Human Rights: Problems of Nonideal Theory
Nicolas Tavaglione (Geneva), Non-ideal Theory and Humanitarian Healthcare

Formal and Methodological Questions in Non-ideal Theory, 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Chair and Discussant: Jack Knight (Duke)
Paul Gowder (Stanford), Para-Ideal Theory and the Strategic Justification of Democracy
David Wiens (Michigan), Testing Design Hypotheses: Using Formal Models to Test Institutional Design Proposals
Holly Lawford-Smith (ANU), Preventing Deterioration in International Cooperation for Global Justice
Barbara Buckinx (Brown), Incrementalism in Global Institutional Design

CPSA PLENARY SESSION, 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Chair: Arash Abizadeh (McGill)
Paper: David Miller (Nuffield College, Oxford), Testing the National Identity Argument
Discussants:
Avigail Eisenberg (Victoria)
Jack Citrin (Berkeley)

THURSDAY JUNE 3

8:30 am - 9 am Breakfast

Global institutions, 9 am - 10:30 am
Chair and Discussant: Christine Straehle (Ottawa)
Mark Purdon (Toronto), Is the Carbon Market Failing? Non-ideal Institutions and Moral Limit in the International Climate Change Regime
Aaron Maltais (Uppsala), Global Warming and International Cooperation Now: Time, Pressure, and Theories of Global Justice
Peter Dietsch (Montréal) and Thomas Rixen (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin), Promoting Justice in International Tax Governance

Human Nature and Real-World Circumstances: What Constraints Should be Incorporated into Political Theory? , 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Chair and Discussant: Zofia Stemplowka (Reading)
David Estlund (Brown), Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy
Robert Ballingall (Toronto), The Educative Function of Political Theory and the Beleaguered Role of Human Nature
Justin Weinberg (South Carolina), A Little Reality Is a Dangerous Thing
Michael Kulicki (Alberta), Transcendental and Comparative Theories of Justice: A Critique of Sen

Non-ideal Theory as Political Theory, 1:45 pm ? 3:30 pm
Chair and Discussant: Jacob Levy (McGill)
Loren King (WLU), Is all Theory (Non)ideal?
Burke Hendrix (Franklin & Marshall), Where Should Non-ideal Theory Expect Moral Failure?
Jack Knight (Duke), Can Institutional Analysis Really Support Non-Ideal Normative Theory?
James Johnson (Rochester), Pragmatism & Political Economy: ?Institutional Imagination? from Dewey to Unger

Concluding Roundtable: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory, 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Chair: Jennifer Rubenstein (Virginia)
Participants:
David Miller (Nuffield College, Oxford)
David Estlund (Brown)
Jacob Levy (McGill)
Colin Farrelly (Queen?s)

Workshop co-sponsored by Le Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique (GRIPP) de Montréal and The Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University

Organized by Jennifer Rubenstein (Virginia) and Jacob Levy (McGill)

For more information on the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, www.cpsa-acsp.ca

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).