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P1A - HEALTH CARE ETHICS I: JUSTICE AND HEALTH
Chair: Ai Leen Lim - London School of Economics, UK
Lisa Eckenwiler
- Old Dominion University, USA [email]
"Justice and Caregiving in the Context of Globalization"
Bob Brecher - University of Brighton, UK [email]
"Who Should Get What? Health Care Resources and the Idea of Social Justice"
Jurgen De Wispelaere - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland [email]
"A Paradox in the Justification of Public Smoking Restrictions"

P2A - HEALTH CARE ETHICS II: PRIORITY AND DISTRIBUTION
Chair: Gideon Calder - University of Wales, Newport, UK
David Hunter - University of Ulster, UK [email]
"Am I my Brothers Gatekeeper? Professional Ethics & the Priority of Health Care"
Niall MacLean - University of St Andrews, UK [email]
"Distributing Health Care in Pluralistic Societies"
Shlomi Segall - Harvard University, USA [email]
"Equality or Priority in Health?"

P3A - ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE I
Chair: Ed Page - University of Birmingham, UK
Jennifer Clare Heyward - University of Birmingham, UK [email]
"Who Pollutes? Who Pays?"
John Barry - Queen's University Belfast, UK [email]
"Securing the Future? Justice, Quality of Life and a Sustainable Economy"
Derek Bell - University of Newcastle, UK [email]
"Carbon Justice: The Case Against Per Capita Emissions"

P4A - ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE II
Chair: John Barry - Queen's University Belfast, UK
Rónán Kennedy - University of Limerick, Ireland [email]
"Speaking for Natural Objects and Creatures"
Gregory Ponthiere - University of Liege, Belgium [email]
"The relevancy of the Ecological Footprint for the study of Intergenerational Justice"
Simo Kyllönen - University of Helsinki, Finland [email]
"Procedural Environmental Rights: Reflections from Practice to Theory"

P5A - ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE III
Chair: Derek Bell - University of Newcastle, UK
Thomas Schramme - University of Wales, Swansea, UK [email]
"Is Egalitarianism Bad for the Environment?"
Ed Page - University of Birmingham, UK [email]
"Currencies of Intergenerational and Environmental Justice"
Pia Halme - University of Newcastle, UK [email]
"Ecological Debt: Meaning and Moral Importance"

P6A - GENETHICS I: REGULATING GENETIC JUSTICE
Chair: Waheed Hussain - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Colin Farelly - University of Waterloo, Canada [email]
"Pre-Implantation Diagnosis and Deliberative Democracy"
Maria Paola Ferretti - University of Bremen, Germany [email]
"Risk and Distributive Justice: Considerations on the Regulation of GMO Products"
Martin O'Neill - Cambridge University, UK [email]
"Genetic Information, Life Insurance and Social Justice"

P7A - GENETHICS II: BENEFIT-SHARING
Chair: Doris Schroeder - Central University of Lancashire, UK
Gail Lasprogata - Seatle University, USA [email]
"Preserving Genetic Diversity: Global Bioethical & Legal Challenges of Gene Mining"
Kadri Simm - University of Tartu, Estonia [email]
"Social Justice in Action - A Comparative Look at Benefit-Sharing"

P8A - FAMILY VALUES IN THE REAL WORLD I: TENSIONS AND EXTENSIONS
Chair: Matthew Clayton - University of Warwick, UK
Pete Morriss - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland [email]
"Marriage and Liberalism - An Underexplored Tension?"
Iseult Honohan - University College Dublin, Ireland [email]
"Rethinking the Priority of Family Reunification in Immigration"
Fergus Ryan - Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland [email]
"The Mainstreaming of Alternative Families in Modern Legal Discourses"

P9A - FAMILY VALUES IN THE REAL WORLD II:
PARENTS, CHILDREN & SOCIAL JUSTICE

Chair: Annabel Lever - University College London, UK
Harry Brighouse - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA [email] &
Adam Swift - University of Oxford, UK [email]
"Family Values and the Legitimate Scope of Parental Partiality"
Colin McLeod - University of Victoria, Canada [email]
"Successful Families, Broken Families, and the State"
Matthew Clayton - University of Warwick, UK [email]
"Comment"

P10A - HEALTH CARE ETHICS III: LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
Chair: Lindsay Stirton - University of East-Anglia, UK
Marius Pieterse - University of Witwatersrand, South-Africa [email]
"Socio-economic Rights Litigation and Social Justice: Access to Health Care Services in South African Prisons"
Margaret Levvis - Central Connecticut State University, USA [email]
"The Dilemma over Children's Rights In Contemporary Medicine."
Nick Cartwright - Keele University, UK [email]
"Rights to Life-sustaining Medical Treatment: Burke v GMC"

P11A - JUST BODY PARTS:
COMMODIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANS AND GENES

Chair: Margaret Levvis - Central Connecticut State University, USA
Medard Hilhorst
- Erasmus University, Netherlands [email]
"Just Partial Exchange? New Issues of Fairness in Living Organ Transplantation"
Mark Cutter - University of Central Lancashire, UK [email]
"Rag & Bone Men for the 21st Century: Governance Issues in Organ and Gene Trade"
Niall Scott - Central University of Lancashire, UK [email]
"Organs Being Taken as they Are and Genes as they Might Be"

P1B - LEGAL MECHANISMS FOR IMPLEMENTING HUMAN RIGHTS
Chair: Gerben Kor - Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aagje Ieven - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium [email]
"Can Political Rights Promote Social Justice?"
Gary Levvis - University of Connecticut, USA [email]
"The Unfinished Business of Human Rights"
Nolan, Aoife - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland [email]
"Ensuring Social Justice By Implementing Human Rights: The Role of the Courts"

P2B - REGULATORY JUSTICE
Chair: TBA
Colin Scott - University College Dublin, Ireland [email]
"Hierarchy, Regulatory Pluralism, and the Rule of law"
Ciarán O'Kelly - Queen's University Belfast, UK [email]
"Corporate Responsibility: Replacing Diversion with Integration"
Martin Lodge - London School of Economics, UK [email] &
Lindsay Stirton - University of East-Anglia, UK [email]
"The Administrative Factor: Political Philosophy and Policy Prescriptions"

P3B - JUSTICE AND THE WELFARE STATE I: REALIZING WELFARE
Chair: John Exdell - Kansas University, USA
Frank Tillmann - German Youth Institute, Germany [email]
"A Rawlsian Welfare System"
Avishai Benish - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [email]
"Privatized Welfare-to-WorkPrograms and the Problem of Inherent Oversight Failure"
Paul Graham - University of Glasgow, UK [email]
"Choice in Public Services: Philosophical Reflections"

P4B - JUSTICE AND THE WELFARE STATE II: WORKFARE
Chair: Richard Caputo - Yeshiva University, New York, USA
Joel Handler - University of California, Los Angeles, USA [email]
"Citizenship, Social Exclusion and Workfare: Myth and Ceremony"
Vicki Lens - Columbia University, USA [email]
"In the Fair Hearing Room: Resistance and Confrontation in Welfare Bureaucracy"
José Antonio Noguera - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain [email]
"Freedom, Justice, and Work: Can Republicans Be Against Workfare?"

P5B - JUSTICE AND THE WELFARE STATE III: UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME
Chair: Shlomi Segall - Harvard University, USA
Nir E yal - Princeton University, USA [email]
"Basic Income and the Social Bases of Self-Respect"
Karl Widerquist - University of Oxford, UK [email]
"On Duty"
Robert van der Veen - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands [email]
"Basic Income: Smart Policy or Instrument of Social Justice?"

P6B - ECONOMIC JUSTICE I: SOCIAL ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Fabien Tarrit - University of Reims, France
Gerald Houseman - Washington State University, USA [email]
"Information Economics and Less-Developed Nations: Guidelines and Remedies"
Heiner Michel
- University of Frankfurt, Germany [email]
"Beyond Free Trade: A Fair Economic Share for the Developing World"
Leif Wenar - University of Sheffield, UK [email]
"Accountability in International Development Aid"

P7B - ECONOMIC JUSTICE II: DEMOCRACY AND EMPLOYMENT
Chair: Martin O'Neill - Cambridge University, UK
Axel Gosseries - Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium [email]
"What's Wrong with the Disenfranchisement of Workers?"
Waheed Hussain - University of Pennsylvania, USA [email]
"Freedom and Democracy in Corporate Life"
Lars Lindblom - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden [email]
"Consent and Contest in Employment Relation"

P8B - ECONOMIC JUSTICE III: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Chair: Larisa Korobeynikova - Tomsk State University, Russia
Regina Kreide - Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany [email]
"Do Transnational Corporations have Obligations?"
Ai Leen Lim - London School of Economics, UK [email]
"Ethics, Economics and the Law: A New Philosophical Approach to CSR"
Elena Pariotti - University of Padua, Italy [email]
"Stakeholders Theory and Internationalization of Human Rights"

P9B - ECONOMIC JUSTICE IV: SOCIAL INSURANCE/PENSIONS
Chair: Paul Graham - University of Glasgow, UK
Ine van Hoyweghen - University of Maastricht, Netherlands [email]
"Risky Business: Balancing out Actuarial Fairness in Insurance Risk Selection"
Maria Clara Murteira - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal [email]
"Pension Policies: Intergenerational Justice and Justice among Contemporaries"
Mikael Dubois - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden [email]
"Ethical Aspects of Behaviour Induced by Social Insurance"

P10B - HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Chair: Sarah Otten - Carlow College, Ireland
Greg Hagen - University of Calgary, Canada [email]
"Is Copyright A Human Right?"
Alex Wellington - Ryerson University, Canada [email]
"Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Critique, Proposals for Reform and the Three Generations"

P11B - PROPERTY, CONSUMPTION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Chair: Peter Balint - University of New South Wales, Australia
Cara Nine - University of Cork, Ireland [email]
"The Lockean Theory of Territory"
Michelle Mason - University of Minnesota, USA [email]
"Toward a Moral Demand of Caveat Emptor"
Alexandra George - Queen Mary, University of London, UK [email]
"Intangible Property; Tangible Justice?"

P1C - THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT
Chair: Marie Moran - University College Dublin, Ireland
Annamari Vitikainen - University of Helsinki, Finland [email]
"Contextualism and Political Practice"
Martin Kaluza - Free University Berlin, Germany [email]
"Justice and Conflict"
Graham Long - University of Newcastle, UK [email]
"Sentiment and Social Justice"

P2C - SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS
Chair: Aoife Nolan - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Maria-Isabel Garrido Gomez - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain [email]
"The Legal Instruments for Implementing Social Justice"
José Luis Rey - University P. Comillas of Madrid, Spain [email]
"Are Social Rights the Necessary Institution of a Theory of Justice?"
Jillian Boyd - University of Toronto, Canada [email]
"The Canadian Right to Equality and the Abandonment of Egalitarian Ambitions"

P3C - DEMOCRACY I: DEMOCRATIC THEORY
Chair: Beatrice Kobow - University of California, Berkeley, USA
Cissie Fu - University of Oxford, UK [email]
"Realizing Coalition Politics: A Theory of Contingent Multiplicity Exemplified"
Larry Krasnoff
- College of Charleston, USA [email]
"Randomness and Democratic Equality"
Cillian McBride
- Queen's University Belfast, UK [email]
"Public Reason and Non-Domination"

P4C - DEMOCRACY II: LAW AND POLITICS
Chair: Aagje Ieven - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Trevor Wedman - University of San Diego, USA [email]
"Democratic Constitutions: The Will of the People?"
Annabel Lever
- University College London, UK [email]
"Is Judicial Review Undemocratic?"
Ofer Raban - University of Detroit Mercy, USA [email]
"The United States Supreme Court and the Notion of Judicial Impartiality"

P5C - DEMOCRACY III: THE NEW SOCIALISM
Chair: Paul Reynolds - Edgehill College, UK
Patricia Illingworth - Northeastern University, USA [email]
"The Duty to Provide Social Capital"
Jeff Noonan - University of Windsor, Canada [email]
"Theory and Practice: The Dialectic of Social Democratisation"

P6C - THE PHILOSOPHY OF TERRORISM
Chair: Claire Valier - Birkbeck College, London, UK
Mark Rigstad
- Oakland University, USA [email]
"The Meaning and Practice of Counter-Terrorism"
Maureen Ramsay - University of Leeds, UK [email]
"Can the Torture of Terrorist Suspects Be Justified?"
Robert Imre - University of Notre Dame, Australia [email]
"Terrorism and Social Justice: Beyond Civil Liberties vs. Authoritarianism"

P7C - SECURITY, INTERVENTION AND WAR I
Chair: Mark Rigstad - Oakland University, USA
David Ebiri - University of Benin, Nigeria [email]
"Democracy & Dialectics of Violence in Global Space: A Discourse"
Lene Bomann-Larsen - University of Oslo, Norway [email]
"Consenting to War"
Joshua Kassner - University of Maryland, USA [email]
"Deliberating about Justice: Social Justice in the Practical Deliberations of States"

P8C - SECURITY, INTERVENTION AND WAR II
Chair: Carlos Bruen - University College Dublin, Ireland
Avia Pasternak - University of Oxford, UK [email]
"Sanctioning Democracies"
Jovana Davidovic- University of Minnesota, USA [email]
"Humanitarian Military Intervention: Theory and Practice"
Glen Newey - Keele University, UK [email]
"What Good is Security?"

P9C - GLOBAL JUSTICE
Chair: Avia Pasternak - University of Oxford, UK
Loren Lomasky - University of Virginia, USA [email]
"Liberalism and Borders"
Dominik Zahrnt - University of Edinburgh, UK [email]
"Theories of Global Justice and Individual Motivation"
Andrew Buchwalter - University of North Florida, USA [email]
"Bounded Communities, International Law, and Hegel's Conception of a Situated Cosmopolitanism"

P10C - HISTORICAL REPARATIONS/ABORIGINAL PEOPLES
Chair: Levvis, Gary - University of Connecticut, USA
David Williams - University of Auckland, New Zealand [email]
"The Moral Basis for Retrospective Redress of Historic Social Justice Claims"
Stephen Winters - University of Oxford, UK [email]
"Historical Reparative Claims and Epistemic Concerns"
Mark Harris - University of California, San Diego, USA [email]
"Mutual Responsibility Agreements with Indigenous Australian Communities"

P11C - JUSTICE BETWEEN THE YOUNG AND THE OLD
Chair: Andrew Williams - University of Reading, UK
Richard Arneson - University of California, San Diego, USA
"Defending Whole-lives Egalitarianism"
Dennis McKerlie - University of Calgary, Canada [email]
"What We Owe to the Elderly"
Paul Bou-Habib - Keele University, UK [email]
"The Elderly and the Claim to Dignity"

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P1D - RESPONSIBILITY AND CHOICE: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Chair: Alex Brown - University College London, UK
Nicholas Vrousalis - University of Oxford, UK [email]
"Where Responsibility Does not Rule: Roemer on Equality of Opportunity"
Zofia Stemplowska - University of Manchester, UK [email]
"Holding People Responsible in the Real World"
Martijn Boot - University of Oxford, UK [email]
"Incomparability, Justified Choice and Justice"

P2D - EGALITARIAN PERSPECTIVES I
Chair: Vrousalis, Nicholas - University of Oxford, UK
Christian Schemmel - University of Oxford, UK [email]
"Equality as 'Just One Value'"
Carl Knight - University of Manchester, UK [email]
"Luck Egalitarianism and Public Policy"
Alex Brown - University College London, UK [email]
"An Egalitarian Plateau? On the Role of Equality in Contemporary Political Theory"

P3D - EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND JUSTICE
Chair: Sorcha Uí Chonnachtaigh - National University of Ireland, Galway
Vicente Raga Rosaleny - University of Valencia, Spain [email]
"Social Justice and Education"
Blain Neufeld - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland [email]
"Political Liberalism, Civic Respect and Educational Choice"
Nat Coleman - Independent Scholar, UK [email]
"School Choice, School Selection and Equal Opportunity"

P4D - DISABILITY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
Chair: Seán Moran - Open University in Ireland
Lorella Terzi
- Roehampton University, UK [email]
"Equality, Capability and Justice in Education: The Just Distribution of Resources to Disabled Students"
Heredia, Nadia - Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina [email]
"Living Disability: Between Theory, Practice and Butterfly Effects"
Steven Smith - University of Wales, Newport, UK [email]
"Attitudes to 'victims of disability': Rights, Pity and Empowerment?"

P5D - COMMUNITY AND RECONCILIATION
Chair: Cara Nine - University of Cork, Ireland
Colleen Murphy - Texas A&M University, USA [email]
"Towards a New Understanding of Political Reconciliation"
Fiona Jenkins - Australian National University, Australia [email]
"Ungrievable Lieves: The Affective Configuration of Community and Citizenship"

P6D - DIVERSITY I
Chair: Graham Finlay - University College Dublin, Ireland
Catherine Frost - McMaster University, Canada [email]
"Re-imagining the Nationalism/Diversity Relationship in Theory and Practice"
Peter Balint - University of New South Wales, Australia [email]
"Governing Values and Diversity: The Need for Contextualisation"
An Verlinden - University of Gent, Belgium [email]
"Immigration, Refugeehood, and the Nation State: An Ethical Perspective"

P7D - DIVERSITY II
Chair: Dagmar Borchers - University of Bremen, Germany
Patrick Loobuyck - University of Gent, Belgium [email]
"How Solidarity Works in Highly Diversified Societies"
Park, Eri - London School of Economics, UK [email]
"The Idea of a Global Community in the 21st Century – Fact or Fiction?"
Kieran Oberman
- University of Oxford, UK [email]
"Alien Residency: A Defence"

P8D - DIVERSITY III
Chair: Mette Lebech - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Nahshon Perez - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [email]
"The Liberty to Culture: An Equality of Resources Approach"
Nils Holtug - University of Copenhagen, Denmark [email]
"Equality and the Rights of Religious Minorities"
Jakob Elster - University of Oslo, Norway [email]
"Legitimate Motivational Transformation"

P9D - JUSTICE AND DIGNITY
Chair: Jeff Noonan - University of Windsor, Canada
Allison Assiter - University of West-England, UK [email]
"Iran and Fundamentalism"
Claire Valier- Birkbeck College London, UK [email]
"Passive Injustice: Inaction, Injustice and Regret"
Mette Lebech
- NUI Maynooth, Ireland [email]
"Human Dignity: A Philosophical Investigation"

P10D - GENDER, SEXUALITY AND JUSTICE I
Chair: Nahshon Perez - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dagmar Borchers - University of Bremen, Germany [email]
"Women's Right to Exit - a Castle in the Air?"
Claire Curtis - College of Charleston, USA [email]
"Anti-Discrimination Law: Changing Perceptions"

P11D - GENDER, SEXUALITY AND JUSTICE II
Chair: Judy Walsh - University College Dublin, Ireland
Paul Reynolds - Edgehill College, UK [email]
"Sexuality, the Law and Social Justice: The Poverty of Present Disjunctures"
Gideon Calder - University of Wales, Newport, UK [email]
"Sexuality and Social Justice: 'Sexual Autonomy' and the 'Space Between'"
Adrian Howe- University of Central Lancashire, UK [email]
"New Directions for Sex Violence Policy"

P3E - REPUBLICANISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Chair: Iseult Honohan - University College Dublin, Ireland
David Casassas - Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium [email]
"Property, Community, and Republican Freedom in Market Societies"
John Schwartzmantel - University of Leeds, UK [email]
"Is There a Republican Theory of Social Justice?"
Stuart White - University of Oxford, UK [email]
"Rawls, Republicanism and Property-Owning Democracy"

P4E - INCENTIVES AND JUSTICE
Chair: Blain Neufeld - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Alan Thomas
- University of Kent, UK [email]
"Cohen's Critique of Rawls: A Double-Counting Objection"
Andrew Williams - University of Reading, UK [email]
"Justice, Incentives, and Constructivism"
Daniel Attas - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [email]
"Difference Principle in Practice"

P5E - NEEDS PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Jovana Davidovic - University of Minnesota, USA
Teppo Eskelinen - University of Jyvaskyla, Finland [email]
"Global Distribution and Categories of Needs"
Barbara Schmitz - University of Basel, Switzerland [email]
"How to Derive Claims of Justice from Needs"
Frédéric Gonthier - Université Paris 5. Sorbonne, France [email]
"Need, Equality, Merit and Fairness : A Cumulative Model of Social Justice?"

P6E - THE SCOPE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE I
Chair: Jonathan Seglow - Royal Holloway London, UK
Miriam Ronzoni - University of Oxford, UK [email]
"The Internal Complexity of Justice: On Conflict, Facts and Social Reality"
Emanuala Ceva - Pavia University, Italy [email]
"Justification and Applicability: The Scope for a Political Theory of Justice"
Laura Valentini - University College London, UK [email]
"How Political Theory Could Make a Difference to Practice: The Role of Non-Ideal Theory"

P7E - THE SCOPE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE II
Chair: Miriam Ronzoni - University of Oxford, UK
Avi Tucker - Queens University Belfast, UK [email]
"Rough Justice"
Bertram, Chris - University of Bristol, UK [email]
"Institutions and the Limits of Procedural Justice"
Ville Päivänsalo - University of Helsinki, Finland [email]
"Taking Principles Seriously: Moral Principles between Theories and Practices"

P8E - THE SCOPE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE III
Chair: Cillian McBride - Queen's University Belfast, UK
Simon Wigley- Bilkent University, Turkey [email]
"Compensation and Justified Harm"
John Exdell - Kansas State University, USA [email]
"Race, Welfare and the Politics of Desert"
Jonathan Seglow - Royal Holloway London, UK [email]
"Self-Worth and Egalitarian Justice"

P9E - THE SCOPE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IV
Chair: Ofer Raban - University of Detroit Mercy, USA
Richard Caputo - Yeshiva University, New York, USA [email]
"Social Theory and Its Relation to Social Problems"
Vittorio Bufacchi - University of Cork, Ireland [email]
"Social Justice in Practice: Marx plus Hobbes"
Andrea Sangiovanni - University of Cambridge, UK [email]
"Is Justice Practice-Dependent?"

P10E - EGALITARIAN PERSPECTIVES II
Chair: Vittorio Bufacchi - University of Cork, Ireland
Jeremy Moss - University of Melbourne, Australia [email]
"The Value of Equality"
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen - University of Copenhagen, Denmark [email]
"Your Choice, Our Choice"
Marc Fleurbaey - CNRS, France [email]
"Equality of Functionings"

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