The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy

Without further ado, our Fall 2026 Collective Discussions line-up 🎉

Back-to-School (and also returning from holiday one day before back-to-school) has caused severe backlog on my part but, fear not!, Collective Discussions is back and this term will be *fab* (per usual)

Join us @collectivewlp.bsky.social to receive links and drafts

Collective Discussions 2025-26 is getting started this coming Thursday (11th) with 'The Legal Concept of Care' by Ira Chadha-Sridhar.

Zoom link will go out to members tout suite! (Monday)

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In conclusion...

Cheers to this year's conference queen, the magnificent Heidi Hurd

We ended with a wonderful piece by Danielle Levitan, thinking about what we owe our past romantic partners.

Stay tuned for the special episode @collectivewlp.bsky.social

Had such a wonderful time in the @collectivewlp.bsky.social's conference this year! Very grateful to have received feedback from such a wonderful group of scholars.
Special thanks to the organisers and to Amber Polk, my brilliant commentator.
Can't wait for next year's conference!

Day 2 kicked off with a discussion of @piachible.bsky.social's thought provoking research paper, 'State Administration as Agents'

The third session saw @kwhyphens.bsky.social tell us when we may have a duty to coerce another

Our second featured author was Anna Peters, who shared her work on over-inclusive criminal law

The Collective engaged in discussion

A truly stimulating discussion with @emiliamickiewicz.bsky.social to kick things off!

Landed safely in Chicago and very privileged to open the Collective’s 3rd Conference with a paper on Wittgenstein and Hart’s distinction between core and penumbra. Can it be sustained?

Conference uploading....

It's Conference Month!
This year, attendees will be gathering at Allerton Park to discuss pieces by @emiliamickiewicz.bsky.social, Anna Peters, @kwhyphens.bsky.social, @piachible.bsky.social, and Danielle Levitan 🥳

We had a fantastic academic year of Collective Discussions - heartfelt thanks to all attendees and our six brilliant featured authors.

Up next: our third annual conference 🥳🤓

Coming up on Tuesday!!!!

Our final Discussion, featuring @stoykovka.bsky.social, will be the 15th of April! Draft and link going out to members by the end of this week 🥳

Exemplary Arguers (for Example, in Law) - Topoi This paper explores the relevance of exemplarity to virtue argumentation theory. It does so by using the law as both an illustrative and a normative example. The paper proceeds as follows. First, it a...

Our Centre Director, Amalia Amaya, has just published her article on ‘Exemplary Arguers (For Example, in Law)’ in Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy 🎊🎉. In this work, Amalia examines the relevance of exemplarity to virtue argumentation theory in law. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very soon!!!

Our annual Call for Abstracts is out! We really look forward to reading about your fascinating research as we select the speakers for our 2025/2026 Seminar Series. Also, feel free to share this call with your friends and colleagues. You can find more details (including deadlines) below:

🥳🎉 indeed!!

Poster with details for upcoming Collective Discussion. The session will be Tuesday, March 18th at 12:00pm EST. Featured author is Eva Yguico and her paper is 'Persons, Patients, and Punishment.' Sign up with The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy for zoom link to attend.

Next Tuesday! Link for the session just went out to our members - hope to see you then!

Artwork: "The Phrenologer's Window II" (1966) by Betye Saar

The FEAST program committee welcomes submissions (from within or outside of philosophy) that reflect on the conference theme “Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice” and engage topics including but not limited to: Practicing accountability beyond carceral logic Moving from an ethics of accountability to a politics of transformative justice Forgiveness and assuming responsibility for wrongdoing Compassion, understanding, and healing Privilege and complicity Rethinking oppression from the framework of transformative justice Feminist pedagogies and practicing accountability in the classroom Holding each other accountable in feminist circles Coalition and solidarity building through differences The ethics and politics of citation and naming lineage Calling out vs. calling in Mutual aid, accountability, and transformative justice Abolition feminism Disability justice and crip kinship Restorative justice and transformative justice Ethics and politics of care Feminist responses to genocide Sexual violence and transformative justice Feminist responses to interpersonal violence and abuse Keynote Speaker: Beth E. Richie (University of Illinois Chicago)

Submit by March 15 for our 2025 conference on Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice!

Conference is Oct. 16-19, 2025, beachside near Tampa, FL—our 10th & last event at our original location, before we move to a more politically viable site. Plz boost!

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We are too!

Our next *Collective Discussion* is coming up! Eva Yguico will be joining us to discuss her draft, 'Persons, Patients, and Punishment' on the 18th of March at 12noon EST. Join our mailing list for zoom link and draft (sent out week before).

🗓️ This Friday 28, Feb., Margaret Martin (Western) will present her paper 'Hobbes’s Long Shadow: Reflections on Hartian Positivism'.

🌎 Where? Massey Room in Balliol College, at 5:00pm.

👉 More information: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

See you there!

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Founding EC member Amalia Amaya will be presenting tomorrow to the JDG - if you're around, go say hi!