Conference Program

[timetable] [sorted by author] [sorted by panel]

• Day 1: Wednesday 28 June
• Day 2: Thursday 29 June
• Day 3: Friday 30 June
• Day 4: Saturday 1 July

All events take place at the Quinn School of Business (QSB), UCD Dublin, unless stated otherwise. To locate the conference venue, visit our venue page.

DAY 1: WEDNESDAY 28 JUNE

11.00am: Registration (Ground Floor, QSB)

14.00pm: Welcome (Desmond Hally Theatre, QSB)

14.30pm: Parallel Sessions 1 (Rooms Q009-Q013, QSB)

• Panel 1A - Health Care Ethics I: Justice and Health
• Panel 1B - Legal Mechanisms for Implementing Human Rights
• Panel 1C - The Importance of Context
• Panel 1D - Responsibility and Choice: Theory and Practice

16.15pm: Coffee Break (Insomnia, QSB)

16.45pm: Parallel Sessions 2 (Rooms Q009-Q013, QSB)

• Panel 2A - Health Care Ethics II: Priority and Distribution
• Panel 2B - Regulatory Justice
• Panel 2C - Social and Economic Rights
• Panel 2D - Egalitarian Perspectives I

18.45pm: Association for Legal and Philosophy AGM -(Room Q013, QSB)

All members welcome!

19.30pm: Reception at the Forum Bar (UCD Student Centre)

hosted by ALSP and Res Publica

DAY 2: THURSDAY 29 JUNE

8.00am: Breakfast

9.00am: Parallel Sessions 3 (Rooms Q009-Q013, QSB)

• Panel 3A - Environmental Justice I
• Panel 3B - Justice and the Welfare State I: Realizing Welfare
• Panel 3C - Democracy I
• Panel 3D - Educational Opportunities and Justice
• Panel 3E - Republicanism and Social Justice

10.45am: Coffee Break (Insomnia, QSB)

11.15pm: Parallel Sessions 4 (Rooms Q009-Q013, QSB)

• Panel 4A - Environmental Justice II
• Panel 4B - Justice and the Welfare State II: Workfare
• Panel 4C - Democracy II
• Panel 4D - Disability in Theory and Practice
• Panel 4E - Incentives and Justice

13.00pm: Lunch at the UCD Student Bar

14.00pm: Parallel Sessions 5 (Rooms Q009-Q013, QSB)

• Panel 5A - Environmental Justice III
• Panel 5B - Justice and the Welfare State III: Unconditional Basic Income
• Panel 5C - Democracy III
• Panel 5D - Community and Reconciliation
• Panel 5E - Needs Perspectives

15.45pm: Travel to Trinity College Dublin

17.00pm: Plenary Session 1: GLOBAL ETHICS DEBATE (Burke Theatre, TCD)

sponsored by Institute for International Integration Studies, TrinityCollegeDublin

Chair: Ronit Lentin, Department of Sociology and IIIS, Trinity College Dublin

Speaker 1: Philippe Van Parijs, Catholic University of Louvain & Harvard University
"Talking to Stanley Once Again. On the Preconditions of Global Distributive Justice"

Speaker 2: Doris Schroeder, University of Central Lancashire
"Global Justice - In 40 Minutes from Dublin to Kenya"

19.00pm: Dinner in Dublin City

DAY 3: FRIDAY 30 JUNE

8.00am: Breakfast

9.00am: Parallel Sessions 6 (Rooms Q009-Q013, QSB)

• Panel 6A - Genethics I: Regulating Genetic Justice
• Panel 6B - Economic Justice I: Social Economics and Development
• Panel 6C - The Philosophy of Terrorism
• Panel 6D - Diversity I
• Panel 6E - The Scope of Social Justice I

10.45am: Coffee Break (Insomnia, QSB)

11.15pm: Parallel Sessions 7 (Rooms Q009-Q013, QSB)

• Panel 7A - Genethics II: Benefit-Sharing
• Panel 7B - Economic Justice II: Democracy and Employment
• Panel 7C - Security, Intervention and War I
• Panel 7D - Diversity II
• Panel 7E - The Scope of Social Justice II

13.00pm: Lunch at Cafe Insomnia

14.00pm: Parallel Sessions 8 (Rooms Q009-Q013, UCD Quinn School of Business)

• Panel 8A - Family Values in the Real World I
• Panel 8B - Economic Justice III: Corporate Social Responsibility
• Panel 8C - Security, Intervention and War II
• Panel 8D - Diversity III
• Panel 8E - The Scope of Social Justice III

15.45pm: Coffee Break (Insomnia, QSB)

16.15pm: Parallel Sessions 9 (Rooms Q009-Q013, QSB)

• Panel 9A - Family Values in the Real World II
• Panel 9B - Economic Justice IV: Social Insurance/Pensions
• Panel 9C - Global Justice
• Panel 9D - Justice and Dignity
• Panel 9E - The Scope of Social Justice IV

18.15pm: Plenary Session 2 - 2006 AUSTIN LECTURE (M Theatre, Newman Building)

sponsored by The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)

Chair: Attracta Ingram, School of Politics and International Relations, UCD Dublin

Speaker: Russell Hardin, New York University
"The Legal Order As an Unintended Consequence"

20.30pm: Conference Dinner at the Tara Towers (Merrion Road)

DAY 4: SATURDAY 1 JULY

8.00am: Breakfast

9.00am: Parallel Sessions 10 (Rooms Q009-Q013, QSB)

• Panel 10A - Health Care Ethics III: Legal Considerations
• Panel 10B - Human Rights and Intellectual Property
• Panel 10C - Historical Reparations/Aboriginal People
• Panel 10D - Gender, Sexuality and Justice I
• Panel 10E - Egalitarian Perspectives II

10.45am: Coffee Break (Insomnia, QSB)

11.15pm: Parallel Sessions 11 (RoomsQ009-Q013, QSB)

• Panel 11A - Just Body Parts: Commodification/Distribution of Organs and Genes
• Panel 11B - Property, Consumption and Justice
• Panel 11C - Justice Between the Young and Old
• Panel 11D - Gender, Sexuality and Justice II

13.00pm: Lunch at the UCD Student Bar

14.00pm: Plenary Session 3: DEBATING DISADVANTAGE (Desmond Hally, QSB)

Chair: Sara Cantillon, School of Social Justice, UCD Dublin

Jonathan Wolff (University College London) and Avner de-Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) enter in critical exchange with John Baker (UCD Dublin), Paula Casal (University of Reading), Richard Hull (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Ingrid Robeyns (University of Amsterdam) about their forthcoming book on "Disadvantage" (Oxford University Press: 2006).

16.00pm: Concluding Remarks (Desmond Hally Theatre, QSB)

16.15pm: Close