Fall 2001 Symposium – Legislatures, Courts, and the Contestability of Rights: A Conversation

November 16, 2001

In Law & Disagreement, Jeremy Waldron insists that “the theory … that right-bearers have the right to resolve disagreements about what rights they have among themselves and on roughly equal terms, is the only plausible rights-based theory of authority.” Waldron, accordingly, is not warmly disposed to judicial review. Some of the other participants in this conversation were more so. 

3 CLE Credits were awarded to attorneys who attended the entire symposium; 1.5 CLE credits per session were warded for partial attendance.

Symposium Schedule
1:30 p.m. REGISTRATION
2:00 p.m. Greetings and Opening RemarksJohn Sexton
Dean
New York University School of LawJoshua R. Geller
Senior Symposium Editor
Journal of Legislation and Public Policy
2:15 p.m. Part I
3:45 p.m. Coffee Break
4:00 p.m. Part II
5:30 p.m. Closing RemarksEric R. WomackEditor-in-Chief
Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

Participants
Christopher L. Eisgruber
Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs

Laurance S. Rockefeller
Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the
University Center for Human Values
Princeton University

John A. Ferejohn
Carolyn S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science
Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Visiting Professor
NYU School of Law

Lawrence D. Sager
Robert B. McKay Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
Visiting Professor
University of Texas at Austin

Jeremy J. Waldron
Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law
Director, Center for Law and Philosophy
Columbia University

Keith E. Whittington
Assistant Professor of Politics
John Maclain Jr. Presidential Preceptor
Princeton University

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