Event



Faculty Working Group on Concepts, Ideas, and Discourses: "Sovereignty"

- | Class of 1978 Pavilion, Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library, 6th Floor

 

Don Herzog (Law School, Michigan) – Sovereignty RIP(PDF)

Claire Finkelstein (Law School, Penn) – Response and Comments

Loren Goldman (Political Science, Penn) – Response and Comments

Paige E. Pendarvis (History, Penn) - Chair

 

Don Herzog is the Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. His main teaching interests are political, moral, legal, and social theory; constitutional interpretation; torts; and the First Amendment. He is the author of numerous books, including Defaming the Dead (Yale University Press, 2017) and Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England (Yale University Press, 2013).  He is currently finishing a book on sovereignty entitled Sovereignty RIP.

 

Claire Finkelstein is Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, and Director, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, at Penn.  Her current research addresses national security law and policy, with a focus on ethical and rule of law issues that arise in that arena.  An expert in the law of armed conflict, military ethics, and national security law, she is a co-editor (with Jens David Ohlin) of The Oxford Series in Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law, and a volume editor of, among others, Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority (Oxford University Press, 2018).

 

Loren Goldman is Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department at Penn.  His research focuses on German and American political thought, with an emphasis on Kant, Hegel, Western Marxism, and American Pragmatism. Prof. Goldman is currently completing a book entitled The Ends of Political Hope

 

Paige Pendarvis is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Penn. She works on modern European history, with a particular interest in intellectual and political history, France, the welfare state, social rights, and environmental thought. Her current research explores the relationship between early forms of environmentalism and the emergence of the welfare state in Third Republic France.

 

This event is open to all

For more information, please contact Antonio Feros (aferos@sas.upenn.edu)