Oxford Centre for the Study of Social Justice - Seminars and working papers
The Centre for the Study of Social Justice meets in-person in Oxford at fortnightly seminars during term time, to discuss working papers with CSSJ members and associates.
A list of seminar presenters and working paper titles - with, in some cases, links to working or final published papers - can be seen below.
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Seminars and Working Papers
Seminars and Working Papers
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2023 - 2024
Michaelmas term
- 3rd week – David Miller – Meritocracy Defended
- 5th week – Duncan Ivison – The Ethics of Deep Diversity
- 7th week– Tom Simpson – Should Political Discrimination be Unlawful?
Hilary term
- 1st week – Cécile Fabre – The Expressive Duty to Vote
- 3rd week – Samuel Freeman – Ideal Theory and Racial Justice: On Charles Mills’s Tanner Lecture
- 5th week – Shai Agmon – Competition, Not a Market, Failure: The Marketplace of Ideas
- 7th week – Kerstin Reibold – Trusting the ‘other’: Privilege, Colonialism, and Trust Between Immigrants and Native Populations
Trinity term
- 1st week – Elsa Kugelberg – Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere (accepted for publication in American Political Science Review)
- 3rd week – Lior Erez – Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration
- 5th week – Linda Eggert – Deontic Priority
- 7th week– Tom Sinclair – Analytic Justice Theory: Should we be Cheery? Or Weary and Leery and Even Teary? Should it Disappeary?
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2022 - 2023
Michaelmas term
- 3rd week – Cécile Laborde – The Protectorate of Discrimination (published in Politics, Philosophy & Economics)
- 5th week – Jacob Barrett & Andreas Schmidt – Longtermist Political Philosophy: An Agenda for Future Research (published within the book Essays on Longtermism)
- 7th week – Nicola Mulkeen – The Problem of Democratic Exploitation
Hilary Term
- 1st week – Rutger Claassen – Property as Power: A Theory of Representation (published in Journal of Social Philosophy)
- 4th week – Lior Erez – Citizenship, Self-Determination and Limits on the Right to Include (published in Political Studies)
Trinity Term
- 1st week – Eric Fabri – Distributive Justice and Wealth Transfers: The Case for a Lifelong Accessions Tax
- 3rd week – Tarun Khaitan – (Liberty, Equality), Camaraderie
- 5th week – Rufaida al Hashmi – National Security and Immigration Restrictions
- 7th week – Zofia Stemplowska – Just Attention for the Dead
Manuscript Workshop
CSSJ hosted a manuscript workshop on Empowering Workers in the Age of Automation by Tom Parr (University of Warwick) on 18th April 2023.
- Speakers: Rebecca Clark (University of Oxford); Simeon Goldstraw (University of Oxford); Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University); Isa Trifan (University of Essex); Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford)
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2021 - 2022
Michaelmas term
- 3rd week – Jacob Barrett & Andreas Schmidt – Moral Uncertainty and Public Justification [published in Philosopher's Imprint]
- 5th week – Ian Carroll – Sin, Tyranny, and the Metaphysics of Money
- 7th week – Cécile Fabre – Military Intervention in Interstate Armed Conflicts (published in Social Philosophy and Policy]
Hilary term
- 1st week – Shuk Ying Chan – Decolonizing Cultural Globalisation [published as a chapter within her book Postcolonial Global Justice]
- 3rd week – David Miller – Compensation for Historic Injustice: Does it Matter How the Victims Respond? [published in Res Publica]
- 5th week – Andrei Bespalov – Respect, Responsiveness, and the Fallibilism of Public Reason
- 7th week – Anthony Taylor – The Normative Logic of Economic Sanctions
Trinity term
- 1st week – Jamie Draper – Gentrification, Integration, and Egalitarian Pluralism (published in The Journal of Political Philosophy)
- 3rd week – Temi Ogunye – Social Norms and Informal Activism
- 5th week – Tom Simpson – Cultures of Trust (published as a chapter within his book Trust: A Philosophical Study)
- 7th week – Zofia Stemplowska – Whom to Commemorate When We’re Not the Same
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2020 - 2021
Michaelmas term
- 3rd week – Gideon Elford – No Platforming and Academic Freedom (published in Ergo)
- 5th week – Jamie Draper – Justice and Internal Displacement [published in Political Studies]
- 7th week – Nikolas Kirby – Good Governance: A Fiduciary Model (published in The Journal of Politics)
Hilary term
- 1st week – David Miller – Responsibility and the Duty of Rescue [published in Journal of Applied Philosophy]
- 3rd week – Sam Bagg – Beyond Democratic Authorisation
- 5th week – Anthony Taylor – Territorial Jurisdiction: A Functionalist Account [published in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 10]
- 7th week – Jacob Barrett & Sarah Raskoff – Ethical Veganism and Free Riding [published in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy]
Trinity term
- 1st week – Gideon Elford – Threats and Promises
- 3rd week – Gopal Sreenivasan – Legitimacy: Once More into the Breach [published in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 10]
- 5th week – Maxime Lepoutre – The Rest Mist [published in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy]
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2018 - 2019
- Gideon Elford's paper Freedom of Expression and Social Coercion, which he presented at CSSJ in October 2018, was published in Legal Theory.
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2017 - 2018
Identifier: SJ039
- Title: Risk and Self-respect
- Author: Alice Baderin and Lucy Barnes
- Date: October 2017
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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2015 - 2016
- Identifier: SJ036
- Title: Explaining Inaction in the Face of Extreme Poverty
- Author: Iason Gabriel
- Date: February 2016
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ037
- Title: Feasibility: Individual and Collective
- Author: Zofia Stemplowska
- Date: May 2016
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ038
- Title: Historical Emissions: Does Ignorance Matter?
- Author: Daniel Butt
- Date: July 2016
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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2014 - 2015
- Identifier: SJ032
- Title: Is There a Human Right to Democracy?
- Author: David Miller
- Date: April 2015
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ033
- Title: Is There a Human Right to Immigrate?
- Author: David Miller
- Date: April 2015
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ034
- Title: Selecting Immigrants
- Author: David Miller
- Date: April 2015
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ031
- Title:War's Aftermath and the Ethics of War
- Author: Cécile Fabre
- Date: November 2014
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ030
- Title: War Exit
- Author: Cécile Fabre
- Date: November 2014
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ029
- Title: Jan Narveson, 'Pacifism: A Philosophical Examination'
- Author: Cécile Fabre
- Date: November 2014
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ028
- Title: Sen's Modest Justice
- Author: Zofia Stemplowska
- Date: November 2014
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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2013 - 2014
- Identifier: SJ027
- Title: Can Moral Desert Qualify or Justify Human Rights?
- Author: Zofia Stemplowska
- Date: August 2014
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ026
- Title: Dignified Morality
- Author: Matthew Clayton and Zofia Stemplowska
- Date: August 2014
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ025
- Title: The Asymmetry Objection Rides Again: On the Nature and Significance of Justificatory Disagreement
- Author: Timothy Fowler and Zofia Stemplowska
- Date: August 2014
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ024
- Title: Microfinance, Non-ideal Theory, and Global Distributive Justice
- Author: Daniel Butt
- Date: April 2014
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ023
- Title: Climate Justice and Territorial Rights
- Author: Chris Armstrong
- Date: April 2014
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ022
- Title: The Incoherence of Luck Egalitarianism
- Author: David Miller
- Date: April 2014
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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2012 - 2013
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2011 - 2012
- Identifier: SJ019
- Title: Legitimate Partiality, Parents and Patriots
- Author: Adam Swift and Harry Brighouse
- Date: November 2011
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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2010 - 2011
- Identifier: SJ018
- Title: Does Public Reason Undermine Social Justice?
- Author: Andrew Lister
- Date: July 2011
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ017
- Title: The 'Mirage' of Social Justice: Hayek Against (and For) Rawls
- Author: Andrew Lister
- Date: June 2011
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ016
- Title: Endings and Aftermath in the Ethics of War
- Author: Seth Lazar
- Date: November 2010
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ015
- Title: The Moral Importance of Winning
- Author: Seth Lazar
- Date: November 2010
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ014
- Title: A Permissive Theory of Territorial Rights
- Author: Lea Ypi
- Date: November 2010
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ013
- Title: Fair trade: what does it mean and why does it matter? (fourth draft)
- Author: David Miller
- Date: November 2010
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ012
- Title: Justice and Democracy
- Author: Laura Valentini
- Date: November 2010
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ011
- Title: A Paradigm Shift in Theorizing about Justice? A Critique of Sen
- Author: Laura Valentini
- Date: November 2010
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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2008 - 2009
- Identifier: SJ010
- Title: Coercion and (Global) Justice: Towards a Unified Framework
- Author: Laura Valentini
- Date: January 2009
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ009
- Title: Justice and Assistance: Three Approaches and a Fourth One
- Author: Laura Valentini
- Date: January 2009
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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2007 - 2008
- Identifier: SJ008
- Title: Educational Equality versus Educational Adequacy: A Response to Anderson and Satz
- Author: Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift
- Date: January 2008
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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2006 - 2007
- Identifier: SJ007
- Title: Human Rights, Basic Needs, & Scarcity
- Author: David Miller
- Date: May 2007
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ006
- Title: The Responsibilty to Protect Human Rights
- Author: David Miller
- Date: May 2007
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ005
- Title: Genetic Justice Must Track Genetic Complexity
- Author: Colin Farrelly
- Date: February 2007
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ004
- Title: Family Values & Social Justice
- Author: Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift
- Date: January 2007
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ003
- Title: On Revaluing the Currency of Human Rights
- Author: Katherine Eddy
- Date: October 2006
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ002
- Title: Legitimate Parental Partiality
- Author: Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift
- Date: October 2006
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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- Identifier: SJ001
- Title: Each Outcome is Another Opportunity
- Author: Clare Chambers
- Date: September 2006
- Affiliation: CSSJ
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