Events

2026/27

  1. SCLP Seminar: Kenneth Himma (Zagreb)SCLP Seminar

2025/26

  1. SCLP General Jurisprudence Workshop: Watson/Pike/Ryu & SewellWorkshop
  2. SCLP to Host the 2026 RECONNET Conference in Constitutional TheoryConference
  3. SCLP Seminar: Barbara Levenbook (NC State)SCLP Seminar
  4. SCLP Book Symposium: Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (Surrey) – Responsibility for Negligence in Ethics and LawBook Symposium
  5. SCLP Seminar: Stephen Sachs (Harvard)SCLP Seminar
  6. SCLP Seminar: Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA)SCLP Seminar
  7. SCLP Seminar: Connie Rosati (U. of Texas, Austin)SCLP Seminar
  8. SCLP Seminar: Guy Fletcher (Edinburgh)SCLP Seminar
  9. SCLP Seminar: Mathieu Carpentier (Toulouse)SCLP Seminar
  10. SCLP Public Law Theory Seminar: Stephanie Barclay (Georgetown)SCLP Seminar
  11. SCLP Seminar: Jeff King (UCL)SCLP Seminar
  12. SCLP Seminar: Tatjana Hörnle (MPI Freiburg) – “Why Are we so Obsessed With the “Guilty Mind“?”SCLP Seminar
  13. SCLP Seminar: Giovanni Sartor (Bologna/EUI) – “Interpretation, Argumentation, and the Determinacy of Law”SCLP Seminar
  14. SCLP Seminar: Elise Woodard (KCL) – “Consent, Trust, and Sexual Ethics”SCLP Seminar
  15. SCLP Criminal Law Theory Seminar: Leo Zaibert (Cambridge)SCLP Seminar
  16. SCLP Public Law Theory Seminar: Lael Weis (Melbourne)SCLP Seminar
  17. SCLP General Jurisprudence Seminar: Robert Craig (Bristol)SCLP Seminar
  18. SCLP Seminar: John Hyman (UCL)SCLP Seminar
  19. SCLP General Jurisprudence Seminar: Nathan van Vees (Melbourne)SCLP Seminar

2024/25

  1. SCLP Seminar: Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov (Surrey)SCLP Seminar
  2. SCLP Seminar: Stephen Mathis (Bergen)SCLP Seminar
  3. SCLP Workshop: Corporate Agency and Responsibility (Pauer-Studer; Silver; Sarch)Workshop
  4. SCLP Seminar: John Hyman (UCL) [POSTPONED]SCLP Seminar
  5. SCLP Seminar: Ralf Poscher (Max Planck Institute)SCLP Seminar
  6. SCLP Seminar: Liat Levanon (KCL)SCLP Seminar
  7. SCLP Seminar: James E. Penner (NUS)SCLP Seminar

2023/24

  1. SCLP Book Symposium: Alon Harel (Hebrew U.) & Avihay Dorfman (Tel Aviv)Book Symposium
  2. SCLP seminir: Aditi Bagchi (Fordham)
  3. SCLP Seminar: John Hyman (UCL/Oxford) – POSTPONEDSCLP Seminar
  4. SCLP Seminar: Amalia Amaya (Edinburgh)SCLP Seminar
  5. SCLP Seminar: Pim Haselager (Radboud U.) – Neurotechnology, Neurocapitalism and NeurorightsSCLP Seminar
  6. SCLP Book Symposium: Alec Walen (Rutgers)Book Symposium
  7. SCLP Seminar: Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (Penn)SCLP Seminar
  8. SCLP Seminar: Giada Fratantonio (Glasgow)SCLP Seminar
  9. SCLP Book Symposium: Scott Hershovitz (Michigan)Book Symposium
  10. SCLP Seminar: Paul Burgess (Monash)SCLP Seminar
  11. SCLP Workshop (closed): “Collective Agency, Powers and Blame/ Responsibility” (Surrey/Oxford)Workshop
  12. SCLP Visiting Fellow: Paul Boswell (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett)
  13. SCLP Seminar: Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth)SCLP Seminar
  14. SCLP Seminar: Ezequiel Monti (Torcuato di Tella/Pompeu Fabra) – “Obligations, Exclusion, and Accountability”SCLP Seminar
  15. SCLP Seminar: Stuart Green (Rutgers) – ‘Defense Exceptionalism’SCLP Seminar
  16. SCLP Seminar: Joe Horton (UCL)SCLP Seminar
  17. SCLP Seminar: Kevin Toh (UCL)SCLP Seminar

2022/23

  1. SCLP Book Launch Event: Ernest Weinrib (Toronto)
  2. SCLP Seminar: Leora Dahan Katz (Hebrew)SCLP Seminar
  3. SCLP Seminar: Sebastian Rand (Georgia State)SCLP Seminar
  4. SCLP Conference: Bernard WilliamsConference
  5. SCLP Seminar: Alexander Somek (Vienna)SCLP Seminar
  6. SCLP Book Launch Event: Andrei Marmor (Cornell) (in-person only)
  7. SCLP Seminar: Antje Du Bois-Pedain (Cambridge)SCLP Seminar
  8. SCLP Seminar: Rene Brouwer (Utrecht)SCLP Seminar
  9. SCLP ONLINE only Seminar: Tatiana Cutts (Melbourne)SCLP Seminar
  10. Workshop “Women in Legal Philosophy”Workshop
  11. SCLP Seminar: Dan Priel (York-Osgoode)SCLP Seminar
  12. SCLP Seminar: Paola Romero (Fribourg)SCLP Seminar
  13. SCLP Seminar: Joe Atkinson (Sheffield)SCLP Seminar
  14. Surrey School of Law and SCLP Seminar: Conor Casey (Liverpool)SCLP Seminar
  15. SCLP Seminar: Nina Varsava (University of Wisconsin)SCLP Seminar

2021/22

  1. IAS Workshop: Fairness in International TaxationWorkshop
  2. SCLP Keynote/Jurisprudence annual lecture: Prof. Ruth Chang (Oxford)Keynote Lecture
  3. SCLP Workshop: ‘The Scientific Evidence for Hard Incompatibilism’Workshop
  4. UK-IVR 2022 Annual Conference – Law, Rationality and Practical Reason: Ancient and Contemporary PerspectivesConference
  5. SCLP Seminar: Alec Walen (Rutgers)SCLP Seminar
  6. SCLP Seminar: Maria Cahill (UCC)SCLP Seminar
  7. SCLP Seminar: Findlay Stark (Cambridge)SCLP Seminar
  8. SCLP Seminar: Matt Matravers (York)SCLP Seminar
  9. SCLP Double Seminar: Julie Dickson (Oxford) & Raff Donelson (Penn State)SCLP Seminar
  10. SCLP Seminar (online): Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford)SCLP Seminar
  11. SCLP Seminar: Alex Kaiserman (Oxford)SCLP Seminar
  12. SCLP Seminar (POSTPONED): Alexander Somek (Vienna)SCLP Seminar
  13. SCLP Seminar: Hillary Nye (Alberta)SCLP Seminar
  14. SCLP Seminar (online): Cécile Fabre (Oxford)SCLP Seminar
  15. SCLP Double Seminar: Ralf Bader (Fribourg) & Paola Romero (Fribourg)SCLP Seminar
  16. SCLP Seminar (online): Georgi Gardiner (Tennessee)SCLP Seminar

2020/21

  1. ALPC Special Session: Ezequiel Monti (Universidad Torcuato di Tella)
  2. Virtual Hart Seminar: Renee Bolinger (Princeton)Hart Seminar
  3. Virtual Hart Seminar: Ulrike Heuer (UCL)Hart Seminar
  4. Virtual Hart Seminar: David Nelken (KCL)Hart Seminar
  5. Virtual Hart Seminar: Kate Greasley (Oxford)Hart Seminar
  6. Virtual Hart Seminar: Aravind Ganesh (Oxford Brookes)Hart Seminar
  7. Virtual Hart Seminar: Sandra Marshall (Stirling)Hart Seminar
  8. Virtual SCLP symposium on ethics and algorithms – Part 2
  9. Virtual SCLP symposium on ethics and algorithms – Part 1
  10. Virtual Hart Seminar: Vincent Chiao (Toronto) & Alon Harel (Hebrew U.)Hart Seminar
  11. Virtual Hart Seminar: Maria Cahill (Cork)Hart Seminar
  12. Virtual Hart Seminar: Michelle Madden Dempsey (Villanova)Hart Seminar
  13. Virtual Hart Seminar: Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Queens)Hart Seminar
  14. Virtual Hart Seminar: Brian Epstein (Tufts)Hart Seminar
  15. Virtual Hart Seminar: Christian List (LSE)Hart Seminar
  16. Virtual Hart Seminar: Mark McBride (NUS)Hart Seminar
  17. Surrey Law Postgraduate Conference (online)Conference
  18. Virtual Hart Seminar: Daniel Wodak (Penn)Hart Seminar

2019/20

  1. Virtual Hart Seminar: Guyora Binder & Bethany Cates on content independenceHart Seminar
  2. *CANCELED* Wittgenstein: Law and Action
  3. *CANCELED* Law, Rationality, and Practical Reason
  4. Virtual Hart Seminar: David Enoch – ‘Statistical Resentment…’Hart Seminar
  5. *Online* Corrado Roversi (Bologna): In Defence of Constitutive Rules
  6. *CANCELED* Neil Williams: TBA
  7. *POSTPONED* Matthias Armgardt (Konstanz): TBA
  8. *ONLINE* Haris Psarras (Southampton): TBA
  9. *POSTPONED* Author and Audience: William Twining (UCL) – Jurist in Context
  10. *POSTPONED* Alec Walen (Rutgers): TBA
  11. *POSTPONED* Kate Greasley (Oxford): ‘Silencing Without Uptake’
  12. Victor Tadros (Warwick): ‘Treatment and Accountability’
  13. Spring Keynote Lecture – Jeff McMahan (Oxford)Keynote Lecture
  14. SCLP lunch talk: Piotr Bystranowski (Kraków) – ‘Proxy crimes’Lunch Talk
  15. Laura Valentini (LSE): ‘Moral powers and social practices’
  16. Lorenzo Zucca (KCL): ‘Uncertainty of will – Shakespeare on law, power & knowledge’
  17. David Nelken (KCL) – POSTPONED
  18. Triantafyllos Gkouvas: The Communicative A Priori in Greenberg’s Moral Impact Theory of Law
  19. Kimberly Kessler Ferzan: ‘Consent, Conventions, and Context’
  20. Hrafn Asgeirsson: ‘Can we dispense with legal ontology?’
  21. Autumn Keynote Lecture – Ekow YankahKeynote Lecture
  22. Dale Smith: ‘Unstated Legal Obligations’

2018/19

  1. New Directions in Philosophy of Law 2019
  2. Brian Bix: ‘Objectivity, Legal Positivism and the Possibility of Universal Error’
  3. Surrey & Jagiellonian Workshop: Law, Language, and Social OntologyWorkshop
  4. Norman P. Ho: ‘Confucians Are Legal Realists, Too’
  5. 2019 Legal Philosophy WorkshopWorkshop
  6. Luis Duarte d’Almeida: ‘Legal Rights, Duties, and Liberties: A Framework’Hart Seminar
  7. Paul Robinson: ‘Mitigations: The Forgotten Side of the Proportionality Principle’Hart Seminar
  8. A TRUCE IN CRIMINAL LAW’S DISTRIBUTIVE-PRINCIPLE WARS?Keynote Lecture
  9. Nikolas Kirby: ‘The Ethics of Distrust’
  10. Mark Somos: ‘American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence’Hart Seminar
  11. Neil H. Buchanan: ‘What Do We Owe Future Generations?’
  12. 2nd Annual Surrey Conference on Regulating AI: They Took Our White-Collar JobsConference
  13. Mitchell Berman: ‘Interest-Relational Reasons, and Artificial Oughts’
  14. Mitchell Berman: ‘Principled Positivism’Hart Seminar
  15. Antony Duff: ‘Two Models of Criminal Fault’Hart Seminar
  16. Angela Smith: ‘Who’s Afraid of a Little Resentment?’Hart Seminar
  17. Heidi Hurd: ‘The Virtue of Bankruptcy’Hart Seminar
  18. Jonathan Wolff: ‘Injustice in the Real World’Hart Seminar
  19. Stanley L. Paulson: ‘Hans Kelsen’s Neo-Kantianism Falls Short of the Mark’Hart Seminar
  20. Dennis Patterson: ‘Theoretical Disagreement, Legal Positivism, and Interpretation’Hart Seminar
  21. Anna Stilz: ‘Resource Sovereignty and International Responsibilities’Hart Seminar
  22. Constantine Sandis: ‘Action, Duty, and Luck’
  23. Keynote Lecture: Anna Stilz ‘The Right to Exclude Immigrants: A Conditional Approach’Keynote Lecture
  24. Detlef von Daniels: ‘Legal Pluralism and the Problem of Evil’
  25. Alice Pinheiro Walla: ‘What is a Right?’
  26. David-Hillel Ruben: ‘A New Theory of Trying’
  27. Moral Foundations of Private Law: Celebrating John Gardner’s New Book

2017/18

  1. Surrey Workshop on Law of InterpretationWorkshop
  2. James Penner: ‘Liability in Damages for Economic Loss Consequent upon a Personal Injury’
  3. Allen & Overy Lecture: Frederick Schauer ‘But That’s Not Law!’
  4. Stephen Morse: “Neuroethics: Neurolaw”
  5. Jonathan Crowe: ‘Not-So-Easy Cases”
  6. Round Table on Neuroscience and the Law
  7. Vincent Chiao: ‘Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State’
  8. Douglas Husak: ‘What’s Legal About Legal Moralism?’
  9. Brian Leiter: ‘The Roles of Judges in Democracies: A Realistic View’
  10. Workshop on the Regulation of Artificial IntelligenceWorkshop
  11. Michael S. Moore: ‘Moral Combat and the Hohfeldian Analysis of Active Rights’
  12. George Pavlakos: ‘Where Law Starts: On the Site and Scope of the Legal Relation’
  13. Open Lecture: Andrei Marmor on ‘Soft Law’
  14. Andrei Marmor: ‘What’s Left of General Jurisprudence?’
  15. Kevin Toh: ‘Authenticity, Ontology, and Natural History’
  16. Michael C. Munger: ‘Moral and Regulatory Implications of the Sharing Economy’
  17. George Letsas: ‘How to Argue for Law’s Robust Normativity’
  18. Allen & Overy Lecture: Philip Wood on ‘The Future of Law and Lawyers’
  19. Christopher Essert: ‘Justifying Property’
  20. Massimo Renzo: ‘Why Colonialism is Wrong’

2016/17

  1. Property Theory Mini-Colloquium: Bart J. Wilson and Ira LindsayWorkshop
  2. David Plunkett: ‘Robust Normativity, Morality, and Legal Positivism’
  3. Barbara Baum Levenbook: ‘Not My Problem: Legal Positivism and Dworkin’s Theoretical Disagreement’