For the next, and final, session of the 2022 Seminar in Private Law on Tuesday, 26 April 2022, we are delighted that Professor Jeff McMahan (University of Oxford, Philosophy) will join us to speak about the moral and legal implications of the idea of wrongful life and the question of compensation.
This session will be hosted at Yale Law School's SLB 127 with the speaker joining in person.
To receive the zoom-link and the readings for this session, please write an email with the subject line "Registration McMahan" to private.law@yale.edu, ideally before 11:00 a.m. on the day of the event.
About the Seminar: The 2022 Seminar in Private Law will devote itself to examining questions about the relationship between private orderings and public justice. We hope to explore how private law and the private arrangements that it enables and facilitates—e.g., through contracts, property rights, or corporate law—relate to (public) concerns with justice. This includes examining how public justice goals may be promoted or hampered through private arrangements, questioning the limits of private ordering, and reflecting critically on the interaction between private and public institutions more broadly. Our ambition is to study the subject from both theoretical and empirical perspectives and to engage champions, as well as critics, of private law. The Seminar will bring together lawyers with scholars from economics, sociology, history, and philosophy.
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Yale Law School Center for the Study of Private Law - NYU Contract Law and Theory Colloquium