Dewey Lectures | Law School Lectures | University of Chicago Law School
 
Established in 1981 with an endowment from the John Dewey Foundation, this lecture was named after the premier American philosopher and educator “to honor a social philosopher so intimately connected with the history of the University.”

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Submissions from 2025

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Goods That People Buy But Wish Did Not Exist, Cass R. Sunstein

Submissions from 2024

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Dignity and the Trajectory of a Human Life, Jeremy Waldron

Submissions from 2023

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Reviving Democracy: Twenty-First Century Challenges, Michele Moody-Adams

Submissions from 2022

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Climate Change and the Crisis of Humanism: Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Dipesh Chakrabarty

Submissions from 2021

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Beauty as Propaganda: On the Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Gooding-Williams

Submissions from 2020

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The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention?", Seyla Benhabib

Submissions from 2019

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Power, Truth, and Politics, Steven Lukes

Submissions from 2017

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Gambling With Their Climate: Future Generations, Negative Emissions & Risk Transfers, Henry Shue

Submissions from 2016

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Right Speech, Leslie Green

Submissions from 2015

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Three Concepts of Human Dignity, Moshe Halbertal

Submissions from 2014

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The Moral Side of Non-Negligence, Barbara Herman

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Three, Not Two, Concepts of Liberty, Axel Honneth

Submissions from 2013

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Giving Corporate Agents Their Due -- and Only Their Due, Philip Pettit

Submissions from 2012

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Tom Paine and the Ironies of Social Democracy, Elizabeth Anderson

Submissions from 2011

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Democracy v. Citizens United?, Joshua Cohen

Submissions from 2010

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Trying Political Leaders, Michael Walzer

Submissions from 2008

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An Epistemic Case for Legal Moralism, Robert Goodin

Submissions from 2006

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Dewey and Posner on Pragmatism and Moral Progress, Richard Rorty

Submissions from 2004

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America's Responsibility as a Global Citizen, Peter Singer