🗓️ Thursday 3 December and Friday 4 December 2026
🕖 Thursday 1.30pm-5.00pm / Friday 11.00am-5.15pm
📍 Room 4.09, College Green, Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin
🎟️ Free - registration required
Schedule
Thursday, December 3, 2026
- 13.30 - 15.00: Session 1 – Commentator: Elizabeth Ashford (St. Andrews) – Chapter 4 – ‘Hohfeld versus Shue on correlativity’
- 15.00- 15.30: Break
- 15.30 - 17.00: Session 2 – Commentator: Adina Preda (TCD) – Chapter 5 – ‘Why there are no individual rights to a pure public good’
Friday, December 4, 2026
- 11.00 - 12.30: Session 3 – Commentator: Rowan Cruft (Stirling) – ch. 10 – ‘Universality and the European Convention on Human Rights’
- 12.30 - 14.00: Lunch
- 14.00 - 15.30: Session 4 – Commentator: Laura Valentini (LMU Munich)– Chapter 11 – ‘Legal human rights and democratic legitimacy’
- 15.30 - 15.45: Break
- 15.45 - 17.15: Session 5 – Replies and Roundtable
The workshop is organised by the Trinity Centre for Justice and Values in collaboration with the Political Theory Specialist Group of the PSAI and it is (in part) funded from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund.
All welcome although registration is required. The relevant chapters will be circulated to registered participants at least 2 weeks before the workshop.