Legal Theory Workshop: David Luban

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP

presents

David Luban
University Professor
Georgetown University Law Centre

Arendt at Jerusalem

Friday, September 30, 2016
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

This is the first chapter of a book in progress, titled Arendt After Jerusalem: The Moral and Legal Philosophy. In the decade before the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt showed little interest in moral philosophy or legal theory; in the decade after, the nature of moral judgment became her central preoccupation. The trial confronted her with the unsettling phenomenon of an ordinary man who seemed incapable of telling right from wrong - the phenomenon she called "banality of evil". Her diagnosis of Eichmann was always controversial, and recent historians think she got him thoroughly wrong. This chapter sets out the phenomena that led Arendt to her diagnosis, and the questions about judgment it raises; it also responds to the historians' critique. My book as a whole will focus on the nature of moral judgment, the problems cases like Eichmann's pose for law, and Arendt's ideas about international criminal law.

A light lunch will be served.

To be added to the paper distribution list, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.  For further information, please contact Professor Larissa Katz (larissa.katz@utoronto.ca) and Professor Sophia Moreau (sr.moreau@utoronto.ca).