UCL Colloquium in Legal & Social Philosophy 2012:

A Discussion of Professor Philip Pettit's Quain Lecture
on 'Legitimacy and Justice'
which will be delivered on 20 March

by
Professor Philip Pettit
Princeton University 

on 21 March 2012, from 4-7pm

Venue:
UCL Law Faculty
Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens
London WC1H 0EG

About the speaker:

Philip Pettit is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, where he has taught political theory and philosophy since 2002. Irish by background and training, he was a lecturer in University College, Dublin, a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bradford, before moving in 1983 to the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University; there he held a professorial position jointly in Social and Political Theory and Philosophy. He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010; he is also a fellow of the Australian academies in Humanities and Social Sciences. He holds honorary professorships in Philosophy at Sydney University and Queen's University, Belfast and has been awarded honorary degrees by the National University of Ireland (Dublin), the University of Crete, Lund University, Universite de Montreal and Queen's University, Belfast. In 2010 he won a Guggenheim fellowship and spent 2010-11 as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences at Stanford University. He works in moral and political theory and on background issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. 

Papers for discussion will be made available normally between 10 days to two weeks in advance on this website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/jurisprudence/colloquium