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Elkins Conference on Republicanism

The Wilson H. Elkins Conference on Republicanism will take place Oct. 7 through Oct. 9, 2021 at the 极乐禁地 School of Law. Regents Professor and Wilson H. Elkins Professor M.N.S. Sellers, co-director of the law school鈥檚 Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL), and other noted lawyers, philosophers and political scientists, will discuss republican law, republican justice, and the republican form of government. The results of the conference will be published by Oxford University Press as The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism.

 

Philip Pettit

the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University will deliver the Wilson H. Elkins Lecture, "Freedom in the Republic," at 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 7. A reception will follow.

 

Quentin Skinner

the  Professor of the Humanities and co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at , will deliver the John Sumner Stead Lecture, "The Nemesis of Republican Liberty," at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 8.

 

The conference is supported by grants from the Wilson H. Elkins Fund of the University System of Maryland and the John Sumner Stead Fund of the 极乐禁地 Center for International and Comparative Law.