LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP
presents
Rainer Forst
Goethe University Frankfurt
Institute of Political Science and Institute of Philosophy
A Critical Theory of Transnational (In-) Justice: Realistic in the Right Way
Friday, May 4, 2018
12:30 - 2:00
Room 219, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park
Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and Co-Director of the Research Cluster ‘Normative Orders,’ of the Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Justitia Amplificata’, Director of the Leibniz Research Group ‘Transnational Justice’ and Member of the Directorate of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Bad Homburg. His major publications are Contexts of Justice (Suhrkamp 1994, Univ. of California Press 2002), Toleration in Conflict (Suhrkamp 2003, Cambridge UP 2013), The Right to Justification (Suhrkamp 2007, Columbia UP 2012), Justification and Critique (Suhrkamp 2011, Polity Press, 2013), The Power of Tolerance (with W. Brown, Columbia UP 2014), Justice, Democracy and the Right to Justification (with Replies by Critics; Bloomsbury 2014) and Normativity and Power (Suhrkamp 2015, Oxford UP 2017). In 2012, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Price of the German Research Foundation. He is a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Associate Editor of Ethics, Member of the Executive Editorial Committee of Political Theory and on the board of numerous international journals in his field. He is co-editor of the series Theorie und Gesellschaft as well as Normative Orders with Campus Publishers (Frankfurt).
CO-SPONSORED BY THE CENTRE FOR ETHICS
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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