Previous Events sponsored by the Natural Law Colloquium have
included the following:
November 20, 2000
Speaker: Robert George, Princeton University
"Natural Law, The Constitution, and the Theory and Practice of Judicial Review"
Respondents: James Fleming, Fordham Law School
Joseph Koterski, S.J., Fordham
Philosophy Department
September 25, 2001
Speaker: Archbishop Edward Cardinal Egan, Archdiocese of New York
"Natural Law, Canon Law, and American Civil Law"
Respondents: Robert Kaczorowski, Fordham Law School
Charles Kelbley, Fordham
Philosophy Department
February 6, 2002
Speaker:
J. Bryan Hehir, President, Catholic Charities USA
"Changing Challenges for the Ethic of War"
Respondents: John J. Drummond, Fordham Philosophy Department
Joseph C. Sweeney, Fordham Law School
May 7, 2002
Speaker:
David Novak, University of Toronto
"Embryonic Stem-Cell Research and Natural Law"
Respondents: Thomas Kopfensteiner, Fordham Theology Department
Mark R. Patterson, Fordham Law School
November 21, 2002
Speaker: Hadley Arkes, Amherst College
"Natural Rights and the Right to Choose: How the Political
Class Talked Itself Out of Natural Rights"
Respondents: Benjamin C. Zipursky, Fordham Law
School
Michael Baur,
Fordham Philosophy Department
April 29, 2003
Speaker:
Gerard V. Bradley, Notre Dame Law School
"Retribution, the Forgotten End of Punishment"
Respondents: John Davenport, Fordham Philosophy Department
Ian Weinstein, Fordham Law School
October 2, 2003
Speaker: Philip Hamburger, University of Chicago Law School
"Separation of Church and State"
Respondents: Mark Massa, S.J., Fordham Theology Department
Abner Greene, Fordham Law School
Click here to read an article on this event in "Inside Fordham"
December 1, 2003
Seminar on the "Natural Law" work of Lloyd L. Weinreb, Professor of Law at
Harvard University, and Visiting Professor of Law for the Fall of 2003 at
Fordham University
Round-table discussion of selections from Lloyd Weinreb's two books:
– Natural Law and Justice (Harvard
University Press, 1987)
– Oedipus at Fenway Park: What Rights Are
and Why There Are Any (Harvard University Press, 1994)
February 4, 2004
Speaker: Kent Greenawalt, Columbia University
"Natural Law: Its Plausible Scope and Its Relation to Public Reason"
Respondents: John J. Drummond, Fordham Department of
Philosophy
James E. Fleming, Fordham Law School
September 9, 2004
Speaker: Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago
"The Just War Tradition and Natural Law"
Respondents:
John Davenport, Fordham Philosophy
Department
Thomas Lee, Fordham Law School
December
6, 2004
Seminar on the Truth-Commission Work of Justice Richard Goldstone
Panelists:
Richard Goldstone, Visiting Professor at Fordham Law School, and former
Chair of South Africa's "Commission of Inquiry regarding Public Violence and
Intimidation" (later known as the "Goldstone Commission")
Teresa Godwin Phelps, University of Notre Dame Law School
Round-table discussion based on the following works:
-- Teresa Godwin Phelps, Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work
of Truth Commissions (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004),
Chapter Four and Chapter Six.
-- Richard J. Goldstone, “Exposing Human Rights Abuses – A Help or Hindrance to
Reconciliation?” in Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 22 (1995),
pages 607-621
-- Richard J. Goldstone, “Justice as a Tool for Peace-Making: Truth Commissions
and International Criminal Tribunals,” in New York University Journal of
International Law and Politics 28 (1996), pages 485-503.
April 5, 2005
Speaker: Philip Soper, University of
Michigan Law School
"On Why Unjust Law is No Law at All: A Defense of the Classical Natural Law
Position"
Respondents: Charles Kelbley,
Fordham Philosophy Department
Benjamin Zipursky, Fordham Law School
November 8, 2005
Speaker: Michael S. Moore, University of Illinois
"The Agency in Agent-Relative Morality"
Respondents: Bill Jaworski, Fordham Philosophy Department
Youngjae Lee, Fordham Law School
February 2, 2006
Speaker: Jean Porter, University of
Notre Dame
"Human Nature and the Purposes of Marriage"
Respondents: Charles J. Reid, Jr.,
University of St. Thomas Law School
Eduardo M. Penalver, Fordham Law School
October 3, 2006
Speaker: James Gordley, Boalt Hall, University of
California at Berkeley
"Why the Rule of Law Matters: A Natural Law Perspective"
Respondents: John Davenport,
Fordham University Philosophy Department
Benjamin Zipursky, Fordham Law School
February 20, 2007
Michael J. Perry, Emory University School of Law
"Natural Law and Human Rights:
Why, contra Finnis, Natural Law Needs Religion"
Respondents: James E. Fleming, Fordham University School of Law
Linda McClain, Hofstra University School of Law
Charles Kelbley, Fordham Department of Philosophy
and School of Law
November 29, 2007
Mark C. Murphy, Georgetown University Department of Philosophy
"God and Nature in the Explanation of Natural Law"
Respondents:
John Drummond, Fordham Department of Philosophy
Daniel Sinclair, Visiting Professor, Fordham Law School
April 16, 2008
Patrick J. Kelley, Southern Illinois University School of Law
"The Moral Basis for Tort Liability: A Convention-Based Natural Law Theory
and its Implications for Tort Reform"
Respondents:
Allan Hazlett, Fordham Department of Philosophy
Benjamin Zipursky,
Fordham Law School
October 28, 2008
John H. Garvey,
Dean, Boston College School of Law
"The Right and the
Good"
Respondents: Christopher Gowans,
Fordham Department of
Philosophy
Ian Weinstein, Fordham Law
School
