Norm and Nature

Thursday, 10 September to Saturday, 12 September
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge


Confirmed speakers

Dr Elena Chebankova (University Libre de Bruxelle)
Russia's non-covenanted federalism: past and present

Dr Thomas D'Andrea
(University of Cambridge)
Leo Strauss's project and the natural law

Dr Gabriele De Anna
(University of Bamberg)
The 'metaphysics' of liberalism


Dr Jacqueline Laing
(London Metropolitan University)
Eugenics, bioethics, and the law

Professor John McCormick
(University of Chicago)
Authority beyond the bounds of mere reason: a political-theological sketch of the Schmitt-Strauss exchange

Professor Cristobal Orrego
(Universidad de los Andes)
The concept of legal authority


Dr Thomas Pink
(Kings College London)
The right to religious liberty and the coercion of belief

Professor Christopher Tollefsen
(University of South Carolina)
Perfectionism and the limits of paternalism


Dr Johan Tralau
(University of Uppsala)
Kinship, death, and the state: discovering the politics of burial

Professor Geoffrey Vaughan
(Assumption College)
Whither Theocracy? Considerations on a natural law republic