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Julius Stone Address 2017 18 September 2017 Democratic Law Speaker: Professor Seana Shiffrin, UCLA<https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/seana-shiffrin/> This lecture offers an account of democracy's intrinsic communicative value and law's special role in realizing that value. To nurture and sustain the social bases of self-respect and an operative sense of social solidarity, citizens must convey to each other their convictions of mutual equality, their commitments to respect their essential human needs and moral rights, and their mutual commitment to cooperate and provide every member with a stable place of belonging. The morally incumbent forms of interpersonal communication require a sort of public commitment undertaken through articulate action. Law serves as the requisite device of public communication that has qualities of substantive expression that mere discursive messages lack. Law is public, available for all to see, and takes the form of an ongoing, articulate commitment. But, for law to convey the message that citizens must convey, each of us must be able to contribute to its formation; hence, for law to play this special function, it must be democratically forged. The lecture traces these theoretical connections and some distinctive implications for democratic participation and respect for law. About the Speaker Seana Shiffrin<https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/seana-shiffrin/> is Chair and Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA, where she has taught since 1992 and is the co-director and co-founder of the UCLA Law and Philosophy Program. Professor Shiffrin received her B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley where she was the University Medallist. She attended Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar and received the B.Phil. with Distinction and the D.Phil. in Philosophy. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Professor Shiffrin teaches courses on moral and political philosophy as well as contracts, freedom of speech, constitutional rights and individual autonomy, remedies, and legal theory. She served for sixteen years as an associate editor of the journal Philosophy and Public Affairs where she is now an advisory editor. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recent winner of the Rutter Award for excellence in teaching. Her research addresses issues in moral, political and legal philosophy, as well as matters of legal doctrine that concern equality, autonomy, and the social conditions for their realization. She has written extensively on the morality of promising and the role of law in facilitating and fostering moral character, with a special emphasis on the connection between contracts and promises. Her recent book, Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law explored the ethics of communication and the connection between the prohibition on lying, freedom of speech, and moral progress. This event is generously sponsored by the Educational Heritage Foundation. Monday 18 September 6 - 7.30pm (registration from 5.30pm) Venue Sydney Law School, New Law School Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown<http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml> Registration Complimentary, however registration is essential. Register here<https://events.sydney.edu.au/office1/getdemo.ei?id=398&s=_4CO0IVNB3> sydney.edu.au/law/events T +61 2 9351 0429 [Description: https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/1735/10317/images/university-logo.png] Copyright (c) 2016 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia. Phone +61 2 9351 2222 ABN 15 211 513 464 CRICOS Number: 00026A To make sure you continue to see our emails in the future, please add to your address book or senders safe list. To unsubscribe, reply to this email with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line Disclaimer<http://sydney.edu.au/disclaimer.shtml> | Privacy statement<http://sydney.edu.au/privacy.shtml> | University of Sydney<http://sydney.edu.au/>
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