Centers & Programs

The Program in Law and Philosophy and the Program in the History and Theory of International Law jointly convened a round table to discuss NYU Professor Thomas Nagel's paper "The Problem of Global Justice", published ini Philosophy and Public Affairs 33 (2005), pp. 113-47.

The session was chaired by Professor Liam Murphy (who, like Tom Nagel and Ronald Dworkin, has a joint appointment as Professor of Law and Philosophy). The faculty participants included, in addition to Professor Nagel, Professors Derek Parfit and Liz Harman (Philosophy Dept), Law School Global Professor Grainne de Burca, and Professors Thomas Franck, Benedict Kingsbury, Lewis Kornhauser, Mattias Kumm, and David Richards (Law School). Many JD and graduate students attended.

A lively debate took place on the problems of constructing a philosophically robust approach to transborder socio-economic justice that engages with the rapidly changing patterns of global integration and governance.

As Professor Nagel commented: 'the need for workable ideas about the global or international case presents political theory with its most important current task.'