Events

Western Law welcomes Professor Michael C. Dorf, Robert S. Stevens Professor Law, Cornell Law School to present the annual Coxford Lecture.

"With the rule of law under threat throughout the democratic world, and especially in my home country of the United States, this may seem a particularly inopportune time to criticize recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that eliminate deference to administrative agencies and generally substitute judicial for executive judgment. Rather, one might think it a stroke of good luck that courts are currently empowered more than ever to rein in a lawless administration. And yet, criticize the decline of deference I shall. In my Coxford Lecture, I shall argue that deference to other legal actors is the very essence of the rule of law." - Professor Dorf

The Legal Philosophy Research Group welcomes Professor Daniel Weinstock, Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy in the Faculties of Law and of Arts at McGill University for a public lecture on Subsidiarity as Philosophical Concept.

Professor Daniel Weinstock's research interests have spanned widely across a wide range of topics in contemporary moral and political philosophy – from the just management of ethnocultural and religious diversity in modern liberal democracies, to state policy with respect to children, families, and educational institutions. His main research interests at present have to do with the problem of health equity, and with issues of justice and inclusion as they arise in the organization of modern cities.