Updated: July 2013 Curriculum Vitae ARTHUR RIPSTEIN
Faculty of Law Telephone: 416-978-0735 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-2648 78 Queen’s Park Crescent E-mail: [email protected] Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5 www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty/ripstein
Chair, Department of Philosophy Telephone: (416) 978-3313 University of Toronto Fax: (416) 946-7436 Jackman Humanities Building E-mail: [email protected] 170 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Personal Information Born June 12, 1958, Winnipeg, Manitoba Citizen of Canada and Germany
Education: 1994 M.S.L. Yale Law School 1986 Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, Dissertation title: Explanation and Empathy in Commonsense Psychology. Committee members: John Haugeland (director) Annette Baier (second reader) Peter King, Peter Machamer. 1984 M.A. University of Pittsburgh 1981 B.A. (Hons.) University of Manitoba
Academic Positions: 2011- Chair, Department of Philosophy 1999- Professor, Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy 1996-1999 Professor, Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Law 1991-1996 Associate Professor, (with tenure) Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Law 1990 Cross- appointed (status only) to Faculty of Law 1988 Appointed to Graduate Faculty 1987-1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto 1986-1987 Visiting Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Franklin and Marshall College
Awards: 2012 Faculty Award, University of Toronto Alumni Association (Annual Award given to one faculty member across the University for Excellence in Research and teaching over an extended period.) 2011 Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize (Biennial Prize) 2010 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada 2001 Nicholas Hoare/Renaud Bray Book Prize of the Canadian Philosophical Association (Biennial Prize) 1994-95 Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship, Princeton University 1985-86 Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh 1985 Apple for the Teacher Award, University of Pittsburgh 1981-82 Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
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Fellowships and Grants: 2009-15 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, General Research Grant, $71,050 2006-10 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, General Research Grant 2002-06 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, General Research Grant 1998-2002 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, General Research Grant 2000 Connaught Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Toronto 1995-96 Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship, Center for Human Values, Princeton University 1995-98 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, General Research Grant
Professional Activities: 2005- Associate Editor, Philosophy & Public Affairs 2010- Member, Editorial Board, University of Toronto Law Journal 2008-11 Program Advisory Committee, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division 1999- Member, Editorial Board, Legal Theory 1999-2004 Associate Editor of Ethics 1998- Advisory Editor, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 1996-99 Editor, Canadian Journal of Philosophy various Referee for Dialogue, Ethics, European Journal of Philosophy, Harvard Law Review, Law and Philosophy, Legal Theory, Nous ,University of Toronto Law Journal, Yale Law Journal, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Penn State Press, Princeton University Press, University of Toronto Press, Germany Israel Fund, Israel Science Foundation, SSHRCC, MacArthur Foundation.
PUBLICATIONS Refereed Books: 2009 Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (Harvard University Press), 412 pages. -Awarded Canadian Philosophical Association Biennial Book Prize, 2011. -Reviewed in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (Alan Wood) Concurring Opinions (Stefan Bird-Pollan) Jurisprudence (Katrin Flikschuh, George Pavlakos) Harvard Law Review, Jotwell (Ekow Yankah) Ethics (William Edmondson) Dialogue (Jon Mandle) Political Theory (Mika laVanque-Matay) Journal of the History of Philosophy (Alyssa Bernstein) Osgoode Hall Law Journal (Simon Kupi) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Victor Tadros) Review of Politics (Howard Williams) British Journal for the History of Philosophy (Gary Banham) Criminal Law and Philosophy (Ekow Yankah) Canadian Journal of Philosophy (Kyla Ebels-Duggan) Legal Theory (Stephen Darwall) 1998 Equality, Responsibility and the Law (Cambridge University Press), 307 pages. - Awarded Nicholas Hoare/Renaud Bray Book Prize of the Canadian Philosophical Association, 2001 - Reviewed in: American Political Science Review (Mark Graber) Canadian Journal of Philosophy (Richard Arneson) Canadian Political Science Review (Colin McLeod) Economics and Philosophy (John Christman) Law and Philosophy (Larry Alexander) Michigan Law Review (John Goldberg) Mind (Antony Duff) University of Toronto Law Journal (John Gardner) Ethics (William Edmundson) Modern Law Review (William Lucy) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Joanna Perkins) Philosophy in Review (Samantha Brennan) Philosophical Quarterly
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Refereed Books Edited: 2008 Immanuel Kant (Aldershot: Ashgate), 525 pages. 2007 Ronald Dworkin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 186 pages. 2001 Practical Reason and Preference: Essays for David Gauthier (edited with Christopher W. Morris) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 1996 Law and Morality (edited with David Dyzenhaus) University of Toronto Press (an anthology for use in undergraduate courses), 780 pages. - Second Edition, 2001,1008 pages - Third edition (edited with David Dyzenhaus and Sophia Moreau), 2007, 1018 pages. Special Issues of Journals Edited: 2011 Understanding Law in its own Terms: Essays on the Occasion of Ernest Weinrib’s Killam Prize (Special Issue of University of Toronto Law Journal) 1998 Philosophy and Criminal Law (edited with Mark Thornton), special issue of Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, January. Refereed Articles: 2012 “Form and Matter in Kantian Political Philosophy: A Reply” (response to reviews by Miriam Ronzoni, Andrea Sangiovanni, Laura Valentini and Garrath Williams) European Journal of Philosophy 20:3 pp. 487–496. 2012 “Self-certification and the Moral Aims of the Law,” Critical Notice: Legality by Scott Shapiro, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol. XXV, No. 1 (January 2012) pp. 201-217. 2012 “Civil Recourse and the Separation of Rights and Remedies” 39 Florida State Law Review 163-207 2011 “Distinctions of Power and the Power of Distinctions: a Response to Professor Koskenniemi” 61 University Of Toronto Law Journal 67-73. 2010 “Critical Notice of GA Cohen Rescuing Justice and Equality” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 40:4, 669-700 “Reply to Flikschuh and Pavlakos” Jurisprudence 1 (2):317-324 2008 “Hindering a Hindrance to Freedom,” Jahrbuch fur Recht und Ethic 16, 227-250. 2008 “Closing the Gap,” Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9:1, 61-95. 2007 “Legal Moralism and the Harm Principle: A Rejoinder,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 35:2, 195-201. 2006 “Beyond the Harm Principle,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 34:3, 216-246. - Reprinted in The Philosophy of Law (edited by Joel Feinberg and Jules Coleman) (Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 2008). 2007 “Tort Law in a Liberal State," Journal of Tort Law 1:2, 1049-1049. 2007 “As if it had Never Happened,” William and Mary Law Review 48:5, 1957-1997. 2006 “Private Order and Public Justice: Kant and Rawls,” Virginia Law Review 92, 1391-1432. Reprinted in Thom Brooks (ed.), Rawls and Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012). 2005 “In Extremis,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 2:2, 415-434. 2004 “Authority and Coercion,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 32:1, 2-35. 2004 “Too Much Invested to Quit,” Economics and Philosophy 20, 185–208. 2004 “The Division of Responsibility and the Law of Tort,” Fordham Law Review 87:5, 1811-1844. 2004 “Justice and Responsibility,” Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 17:2, 361-86. 2000 “Three Duties to Rescue,” Law and Philosophy 19, 751-779. - Reprinted in Torts edited by Alan Beever (Auckland: Brookers, 2004). 2000 “Private Law and Private Narratives,” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 20:4, 683-702. - Reprinted in Relating to Responsibility: Essays Presented to Tony Honore on his 80th Birthday, edited by John Gardner and Peter Cane (Oxford: Hart, 2001). 1999 “Prohibition and Preemption,” Legal Theory 5, 235-268. 1998 “Some Recent Obituaries of Tort Law,” University of Toronto Law Journal 48, 561-574. - Reprinted in Introduction to Private Law Relationships, 3rd edition, edited by M.J. Mac Neil, N. Sargent, T.B. Dawson and M.A. Nixon (Toronto: Captus Press, 1999). 1997 “What Can Philosophy Teach us about Multiculturalism?” Dialogue 36:3, 607-614. Arthur Ripstein / 4
Refereed Articles (continued): 1997 “Responses to Humiliation,” Social Research 64:1, 90-112. 1996 “Law, Language, and Interpretation,” (critical notice of Andrei Marmor, Interpretation and Legal Theory) University of Toronto Law Journal 46, 335-44. 1996 “Self-Defense and Equal Protection,” University of Pittsburgh Law Review 57:3, 685-724. 1996 Langille, Brian and Arthur Ripstein, “Strictly Speaking, It Went Without Saying,” Legal Theory 2:2, 63-81. 1995 Coleman, Jules and Arthur Ripstein, “Mischief and Misfortune,” McGill Law Journal 40, 91-130. - Reprinted in The Philosophy of Law, edited by Joel Feinberg and Jules Coleman (Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1999). - Reprinted in Tort Law, edited by Ernest Weinrib (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). 1995 “Recognition and Cultural Membership,” (critical notice of Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition) Dialogue 34, 331-341. 1994 “Universal and General Wills: Hegel and Rousseau,” Political Theory 22:3, 444-467. 1994 “Equality, Luck and Responsibility,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 23:1, 3-23. 1993 “Questionable Objectivity,” Nous 27, 355-372. 1993 “Making the World Safe for Liberalism,” (critical notice of Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy) Dialogue 32, 309-314. 1992 “Liberal Justification and Neutrality,” Analyse & Kritik 14:1, 3-17. 1992 “The General Will,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 9:1, 69-84. - Reprinted in The Social Contract Theorists: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau edited by C.W. Morris (Lanham Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999). 1990 “The Ideal Libertarian,” (critical notice of Jan Narveson, The Libertarian Idea) Dialogue 29, 285-298. 1989 “Gauthier's Liberal Individual,” Dialogue 27, 63-76. 1989 “Rationality and Alienation,” in Analyzing Marxism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume edited by R.X. Ware and K. Nielsen, 449-466 1987 “Commodity Fetishism,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17:4, 733-748. 1987 “Explanation and Empathy,” Review of Metaphysics 40, 465-482. 1987 “Foundationalism in Political Theory,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 16:2, 115-137. Refereed Chapters in Books: 2013 “Kant’s Juridical Theory of Colonialism” forthcoming in Katrin Flikschuh and Lea Ypi Kant and Colonialism (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 12000 words. 2013 “Replies” forthcoming in Sari Kisilevsky and Martin Stone (eds.) Freedom and Force: Essays on Kant’s Political Philosophy (Oxford: Hart Publishing) (Reply to essays on Force and Freedom by A.J. Julius, Katrin Flikschuh, Japa Pallikkathayil, George Pavlakos, Andrea Sangiovanni, Martin Stone, Daniel Weinstock, and Alan Wood.) 13,000 words. 2013 “Possession and Use” forthcoming in James Penner and Henry Smith (eds.) Philosophical Foundations of Property (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 15,229 words. 2012 “Kant and the Circumstances of Justice,” in Elisabeth Ellis (ed.) Kant’s Political Theory: Interpretations and Applications (Penn State University Press) 42-73. 2009 “Kantian Legal Philosophy,” in Dennis Patterson (ed.) A Companion to Legal Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley) 392-405. 2009 “Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy,” in T. Hill (ed.) A Companion to Kant’s Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley), 155-172. 2007 “Introduction: Anti-Archimedeanism,” in Arthur Ripstein (ed.) Ronald Dworkin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1-21. 2007 “Liberty and Equality,” in Arthur Ripstein (ed.) Ronald Dworkin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 82-108. 2005 “Public and Private Benefits in Higher Education,” in Frank Iacobucci and Carolyn Tuohy (eds.) Taking Public Universities Seriously (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 498-513.
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Refereed Chapters in Books (continued): 2002 “Torts,” in J.L. Coleman and S. Shapiro (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 656-686. 2001 Ripstein, Arthur and Benjamin Zipursky, “Corrective Justice in an Age of Mass Torts,” in G. Postema (ed) Philosophy and the Law of Torts (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press), 214-249. 2001 Morris, Christopher and Arthur Ripstein, “Introduction: Practical Reason and Preference,” in Christopher Morris and Arthur Ripstein (eds.) Practical Rationality and Preference: Essays for David Gauthier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1-10. 2000 “Disagreement and Coercion,” in R. Beiner and W. Norman (eds.) Canadian Political Philosophy: Contemporary Reflections (Toronto: Oxford University Press), 349-362. 1998 “Multiculturalism,” in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Volume 6, 599-602. 1997 “Context, Continuity, and Fairness,” in Jeff McMahan and Robert McKim (eds.) The Morality of Nationalism (Oxford), 209-226. 1997 “Political Philosophy,” in J.V. Canfield (ed.) Routledge History of Philosophy (Volume X): Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge and Value in the Twentieth Century (London: Routledge), 285-306. 1993 “Preference,” in C. Morris and R.G. Frey (eds.) Value, Welfare and Morality (Cambridge University Press), 93-111. - Revised version in Christopher Morris and Arthur Ripstein (eds.) Practical Rationality and Preference: Essays for David Gauthier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 37-55. 1989 “Hobbes on World Government and the World Cup,” in Timo Airaksinen and Martin Bertman (eds.) Hobbes: War among Nations (London: Gower Press), 112-119. Book Reviews: 2002 Review of Antony Duff, Punishment, Communication and Community, Philosophical Quarterly 53:211, 310-313. 2001 Review of Jeremy Waldron, Law and Disagreement, Philosophical Review 110:4, 611-614. 2000 Review of T.M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other, Philosophy in Review 20:1, 73-76. 2000 Review of Antony Duff (ed.) Philosophy and the Criminal Law , Philosophical Quarterly 50:198, 130- 133. 1998 Review of John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza Responsibility and Control, Philosophy in Review 18:6, 416-418. 1998 Review of Martha Nussbaum et al, For Love of Country, Dialogue 37:4, 851-853. 1997 Review of Jules Coleman and Allan Buchanan (eds) In Harm’s Way: Essays in Honor of Joel Feinberg, Philosophical Books 38:1, 61-64. 1993 Review of Richard Miller, Moral Differences, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 13:3, 111-113. 1992 Review of Allan Gibbard, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings, Philosophical Review, 101:4, 934-936. 1988 Review of Jean Hampton Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 8:3, 94-96. 1989 Review of Russell Hardin Morality Within the Limits of Reason, Canadian Journal of Political Science 22:3, 685-686. 1990 Review of Gary Herbert Thomas Hobbes: The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom, Ethics 101:1, 200-201. Popular Pieces: 1995 “Undue Burdens,” Boston Review March/April. 1988 “Animal Rights and Wrongs,” Canadian Dimension July, 9-10. 1990-92 Fifteen Op-Ed and "Principles" pieces, Toronto Globe and Mail, various dates.
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Radio Specials: 2013 My Brother and Sister’s Keeper two part special with Michael Blake and Simone Chambers) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, May. 2011 Freedom of Expression (two part special with Michael Blake and Simone Chambers) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, May. 2010 Secularism (Two Part Special with Michael Blake, Mohammad Fadel, and Simone Chambers) IDEAS CBC Radio One, April 19-20 2009 Democracy (two part special with Michael Blake and Simone Chambers) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, May. 2008 “The Dog Ate My Homework,” (with Michael Blake and Simone Chambers) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, March. 2006 “Emergencies,” (with Sophia Moreau and Michael Blake) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, May. 2005 “Borders and Boundaries,” (with Seana Shiffrin and Michael Blake) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, July. 2004 “Authority,” (with Seana Shiffrin and Gopal Sreenivasan) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, May. 2004 “Coercion,” (with Michael Blake and Gopal Sreenivasan) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, June. 2002 “The Truth About Lying,” (with Michael Blake and Samantha Brennan) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, May 27. 2001 “For Your Own Good,” (with Michael Blake and Samantha Brennan) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, February 7. 1998 “Tough Luck,” (with Mayo Moran and Daniel Weinstock) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, October 27. 1996 “The Public Good Matters,” (with Will Kymlicka and Christine Sypnowich) IDEAS, CBC Radio 1, November 29.
Conference Presentations: 2012 “The Law of Force and the Force of Law" (Keynote) Conference ‘The State of Jurisprudence', Center for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, University of Antwerp, 2-3 November 2012 "Time’s Arrow and Rule of Law” Conference on Private Law and the Rule of Law, Faculty of Law University of Toronto, September. 2012 "Your Own Good Name: Understanding Defamation" Obligations VI, School of Law, Western University, July. 2012 "Innate Right in Public Law" (Opening Keynote) Wege zur Freihiet: Offene Fragen der Kantischen Rechts und politischen Philosophy, Georg-August Universitat, Gottingen, July 5. 2012 "Kant and the Law of War" Paton Colloquium, University of St. Andrews, June 27. 2012 "Possession and Use" Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar 2012 - The Philosophical Foundations of Property Law, May 11. 2011 “Reply to Ronzoni, Sangiovani, Valentini and Williams” ICPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August 26. 2011 “Self-Certification and the Moral Aims of the Law” Conference on Scott Shapiro’s Legality Cardozo Law School, June 5, 2011 2011 “Right as a Doctrine of Means” Conference on Justice and Virtue in Kant’s Practical Philosophy School of Law, University of Antwerp, March 26, 2011 2011 “Civil Recourse in the Separation of Wrongs and Remedies” Conference on Civil Recourse Theory, Florida State University School of Law, February 11, 2011 2010 “Response to Herman, Morris, Pallakathiyal, Julius and Stone” Conference on Force and Freedom, Cardozo School of Law, June 2010 2010 “Replies to Katz, Weinstock and Wood” author meets Critics session, Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal, May 2010 2010 “Proportionality without Balancing,” invited lecture, Conference in Honor of Barbara Herman, UCLA School of Law, April 2010 2009 Response to critics – symposium on Force and Freedom, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, December 31, 2009 (response to critiques by Tali Fischer, Avilhay Dorfman, Raif Zreik 2009 “Moral Practices” Keynote address, UK Kant Society, Lancaster England, August 2009 2008 Manuscript Workshop on Arthur Ripstein, Force and Freedom, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, October (Author Replies to 3 Commentators). Arthur Ripstein / 7
Conference presentations (continued): 2008 Manuscript Workshop on Arthur Ripstein, Force and Freedom, Property Working Group Annual Meeting, NYU Law School, July. 2008 Manuscript Workshop on Arthur Ripstein, Force and Freedom, Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, May 16-17, (author replies to 12 papers by commentators on manuscript chapters). 2008 “Consent,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March. 2007 “Hindering a Hindrance to Freedom,” Conference on Kant’s Doctrine of Right, Friedrich-Schiller- Universität Jena, July. 2007 “Closing the Gap,” Conference on Moral and Legal Luck, Hebrew University, January. 2006 “Tort Law in a Liberal State,” Journal of Tort Law Inaugural Conference, Columbia University School of Law, September. 2006 Comment on Marcus Willaschek’s “Kant on Right Without Ethics,” North American Kant Society, April. 2006 “As If It Had Never Happened,” Conference on Law and Morality, William and Mary College of Law, March. 2006 “Private Order and Public Justice: Kant and Rawls,” Conference on Private Law and Political Philosophy, University of Virginia School of Law, February. 2004 “Public and Private Benefits in Higher Education,” Conference on Public Universities, University of Toronto, December. 2003 “The Division of Responsibility and the Law of Tort,” Conference on Rawls and the Law, Fordham University School of Law, November. 2003 “In Extremis,” IVR World Congress, Lund Sweden, August. 2003 “Natural Law and Social Contract: Variations on Kantian Themes,” Conference on Contractarian Legal and Political Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, May. 2003 “Too Much Invested to Quit,” Conference on Fairness versus Welfare, University of Toronto, April. 2001 “Reply to Alexander and Perry,” Author Meets Critics Session, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March 30. 2001 “Torts,” Oxford-Toronto Legal Philosophy Conference, Oxford, February 23-24. (The comments of Tony Honore, Regius Professor of Civil Law, Emeritus, Oxford University, and my response can be viewed on video at the Oxford Legal Philosophy website: http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/jurisprudence/ 2000 “Justice and Responsibility,” Conference on Egalitarianism, Responsibility, and the Law, UNC Legal Philosophy Conference, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park NC, October 13-15. 2000 “Private Law and Private Narratives,” conference on Responsibility and Luck, Columbia University School of Law, March. 1999 “Three Duties to Rescue,” Conference on Duties to Aid, Georgia Sate University, June. 1998 “Everything for Sale,” Conference on The Structure of Liberty, Quinnipiac College of Law, November. 1998 “Prohibition and Preemption,” Conference on Preemptive Action, University of San Diego Law School, April. 1997 “Corrective Justice in an Age of Mass Torts,” (with B. Zipursky) conference on Philosophy and Tort Law, National Humanities Center, September. 1997 “Reciprocity and Responsibility,” Conference on Egalitarianism and Responsibility, Universitie de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France, June. 1997 “Reasonable Persons, Mistakes of Fact and Mistakes of Law,” Conference on the Reasonable Person, University of Western Ontario, March. 1995 “Self-Defense and Inequalities of Power,” University of Pittsburgh Philosophy and Law Symposium, April. 1994 “Three kinds of Membership,” American Philosophical Association, Los Angeles, April, and at SSHRCC Research Network on Multiculturalism and Citizenship, March 1995. 1993 “Unnatural Facts,” Canadian Philosophical Association, Ottawa, May. 1993 “Equality, Luck and Responsibility,” IVR World Congress, Reykjavik, Iceland, May. Arthur Ripstein / 8
Conference presentations (continued) 1992 “Rights for Ascriptive Groups,” Conference on Group Rights, Glendon College, February. 1989 “Real Abstraction and Neo-Classical Marxism,” Conference on Marxism Now, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December. 1989 “Hypothetical Preference” Canadian Philosophical Association, Universite Laval, May. 1989 “Rationality and Alienation” Philosophy and Political Science Joint Colloquium, University of Toronto, February. 1988 “Comments on Contracts,” Canadian Political Science Association, Windsor, Ontario, June. 1988 “Gauthier's Liberal Individual,” Canadian Philosophical Association, Windsor, Ontario, May. 1987 “Contractarianism and Its Critics,” (Symposium with David Gauthier and Wayne Sumner), University of Toronto, October. 1987 “Hobbes on World Government and the World Cup,” Hobbes Conference, University of Helsinki, May. 1986 “The General Will,” Canadian Philosophical Association, May.
Invited Lectures: 2013 "Not on the Merits: Kant and the Law of War" Political Theory Workshop, Stanford University, May 31. 2013 "Possession and Use" Private Law Workshop, Harvard Law School, April 22 2013 "The Law of Force and the Force of Law" Department of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan, March 15. 2013 "Not on the Merits: Kant and the Law of War" Department of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan, March 15. 2013 "The Rights Theory of Interests" Department of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan, March 16 2012 "Not on the Merits: Kant and the Law of War" Center for Human Values, Princeton University, October 4. 2012 “The Duty to Rescue” Fellows Seminar, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, February 2012. 2010 “Motive and Intention in Tort Law” Inaugural Lecture, Tort Law Working Group, University of Western Ontario, November 4, 2010 2010 “Proportionality without Balancing” Colloquium in Legal Theory and Political Philosophy, NYU School of Law, September 23 Legal Theory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, March 1 2009 “Roads to Freedom,” Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, March, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, December 2008, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, October 2008, USC Law School, February 2008, Political Theory Workshop, Brown University, November 2007. 2008 “Consent,” Claremont McKenna College, February. 2008 “Intention in Tort Law,” USC Law School, February, Georgetown Law School, January 2007. 2005 “Beyond the Harm Principle,” Legal Theory Workshop, Yale Law School, April 2005, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, December 2004, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, November 2004. 2002 “Coercion and Authority,” Legal Theory Workshop, Columbia University, December, Department of Philosophy, UCLA, November 2, 2001. 2001 “Justice and Responsibility,” Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, February, Ethics Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, New York University, December 2000, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, November 2000.
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Invited Lectures (continued): 1998 “Injunctions and the Criminal Law,” Fordham University School of Law, December, Queen’s University Department of Philosophy November 1998, Vanderbilt University Law School, September 1998. 1998 “Punishment and the Tort/Crime Distinction,” School of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, March. 1997 “Reciprocity and Responsibility in Distributive Justice,” Program in Justice, Economy and Society, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, November. 1996 “Foreseeability in Tort Law,” Faculty of Law, McGill University, October. 1996 “Self-Defense and Equal Protection,” Program in Ethics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, February. 1995 “Mischief and Misfortune,” Druim Moir Seminars in Analytic Legal Philosophy, December, UCLA Law School, February 1995, USC Law School, February 1995, University of Manitoba November 1994, University of Toronto Legal Theory Workshop, October 1994, Faculty Workshop, Yale Law School, October 1994. 1993 “Equality, Luck and Responsibility,” University of Manitoba, February. 1992 “Responsibility and Luck,” (with Calvin Normore) Concordia University, November. 1992 “Questionable Objectivity,” University of California, Irvine, April, Trent University, December 1991, Georgetown University, November 1991, 1991 “Hegel and Rousseau,” Ohio State University, November. 1991 “Preference,” Columbia University, October, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, September 1991. 1990 “Preference and Beyond,” Bowling Green State University, October. 1990 “Thornton and Jones,” University of Toronto Philosophy Department Forum, October . 1990 “Non-Foundationalist Practical Reason,” Queen's University, March. 1990 “Argument and Advertising,” University of Manitoba, March. 1990 “Humans, Animals and the Rest of Nature,” University of Manitoba, March. 1989 “Non-Foundationalist Practical Reason: Its Implications for Legal Theory,” Western New England School of Law, November. 1989 “Why Rational Choice Theory Can't Shed Light on Morality,” McGill University, February, University of Waterloo, April, 1988. 1989 “Liberal Justification and Neutrality,” McMaster University, January.
TEACHING: Theses Supervised: Doctoral Students Supervised to completion: 2009-13 Jacob Weinrib "Authority, Justice, and Public Law: A Unified Theory" (PhD) 2010-13 Ariel Zylberman "The Relationship of Right: a Constitutive Vindication of Human Rights" (PhD) 2009-11 Helena Likwornik “Probability and the Law of Evidence” (Ph.D.) 2007-11 Doug Mackay “Political Justification” (Ph.D.) 2007-10 Cristian Dmitru “Global Justice and Odious Debt” (Ph.D.) 2004-08 Sari Kisilevsky, “Legal Rules Legal Reasoning” (Ph.D.) 2004-07 Paul Miller “Essays Toward a Theory of Fiduciary Law” (Ph.D.) 2003-07 Jonathan Peterson “Liberalism and the Public Interest in Art” (Ph.D.) 2003-06 Martin Hevia “Separate People Acting Together” (SJD) 2003-06 Helga Varden “The Liberal Ideal of Political Obligations - The Lockean Voluntarist vs. Kant’s Non- Voluntarist Ideal of Political Obligations” (Ph.D.) 2000-05 Lisa Austin “Privacy, Law, and the Question of Technology” (Ph.D.) Arthur Ripstein / 10
Teaching (continued): Doctoral Students Supervised to Completion (continued): 1999-2004 Gita Cale, “Responsibility Between Persons” (Ph.D.) 1998-2001 Emer O’Hagan “Practical Reason and the Myth of the Given” (Ph.D.) 1998-2000 Vicki Igneski, “Rescue and the Duty to Aid” (Ph.D.) 1995-97 Andrew Latus “The Problem of Moral Luck” (Ph.D.) 1992-96 Jean Jacques Baillargeon “A Defence of Political Liberalism” (Ph.D.) 1993-95 Dennis W. Klimchuk, “Automatism, Agency, and Responsibility” (Ph.D.)
LL.M. Students supervised to completion: 2000-01 Ian McMillan. Title: “Patent Law and the Philosophy of Language” 1989-90 John Stanton-Ife. Title: Objectivity and legal disagreement
Doctoral Students currently supervising: Joanna Langille, “Private International Law" Past Doctoral Committee member for: Sareh Pouryosseffi, Zoe Sinel, Mark Bennett, Michael Kessler, Owen Ware, Lisa Fuller, Michael Garnett, Louis-Philippe Hodgson, Lars Vinx, Evan Fox-Decent, Gustav Ahrennius, Pura Sanchez-Zamarrano, Moira Dossetor, Michael Dila, Victor Ramraj, Peter Trnka, Glen Melanson, Sinclair MacRae, David Eliot,
Currently Committee Member for: Kelin Emmett,
Courses Taught: (since assuming current appointment only)
2012-13 Political Philosophy 2005-06 Kant’s Political Philosophy (partial teaching release as Chair) Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason 2011-12 Political Philosophy (on leave second term) Kant’s Doctrine of Right 2004-05 Torts (full year) (partial teaching release as Chair) Kant’s Political Philosophy 2010-11 Torts Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason Kant 2003-04 Torts (fall term only) Issues in the Philosophy of Law Issues in the Philosophy of Law 2009-10 Introduction to Legal Philosophy 2002-03 Torts Political Philosophy 2001-02 Philosophical Foundations of the Common 2008-09 Torts Law Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason Law and Morality 2007-08 Torts (on leave second term) 2006-07 Torts 2000-01 Torts (full year) Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Law and Morality Morals Kant’s Doctrine of Right Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason 1999-00 Torts (fall term) Kant’s Ethics (on leave second term)
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SERVICE: (Since 1999 Only) University of Toronto: 2013- Special Joint Advisory Committee on Memorandum of Agreement 2003-11 Governing Council 2003-11 Business Board 2004-11 Executive Committee 2010 Presidential Review Committee 2010 SGS Decanal representative on various tenure committees 2008-09 Search Committee for Dean of Graduate Studies and Vice Provost 2008 SGS Decanal representative on various tenure committees 2007-08 2030 Task Force on Governance 2006-07 President’s Advisory Committee on Tobacco Stocks 2007 President’s Advisory Committee on Darfur 2003-06 Connaught Humanities Panel (Chair 04-06)
Philosophy Department: 2011- Chair of St. George Department and Tri-Campus Graduate Department. 2008-10 Member, Search Committee 2008 Member, Chair Search 2007-08 Member, Search Committee 2006-07 Member, Search Committee 2006-08 Member, Promotions Committee 2005-06 Member, Search Committee 2004 Member, Search Committee 2003-05 Member, Promotions Committee 2000-03 Placement Officer 2000 Member, Chair Search
Faculty of Arts and Science: 2011-13 Budget Committee 2012-13 DACCA 2012-13 Director Search, IHPST
Faculty of Law: 2011-13 Research Committee 2010 Decanal Search Committee 2008-09 Promotions Committee 2000-11 Research Committee Chair 2005 Decanal Search Committee 2004-05 Course Assignments Committee 2002-03 Academic Plan Committee 2001-02 Endowed Chairs Committee 2000-01 Course Assignments Committee 1999- Convenor, Law and Philosophy Discussion Group