SAVE THE DATE

 

The Moral Status of Discrimination

and its Legal Implications

 

An International Conference

Jerusalem, 14-16 December 2016

The Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem cordially invites you to an international conference on the moral and legal status of discrimination, which will be held on 14-16 December 2016, on the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

While there seems to be a consensus that discrimination is often morally wrong and that it should be legally prohibited in some cases, there is much less agreement regarding the questions why discrimination is wrong, when it is wrong (for example, with respect to rational discrimination, a practice of separate but equal, and discrimination based on grounds that go beyond the paradigms of race, religion and sex), and when and how discrimination should be legally prohibited (or otherwise regulated). The aim of the conference is to explore these and related questions.

Confirmed speakers and commentators include (in alphabetical order):

Lawrence Alexander, University of San-Diego

Richard Arneson, University of California, San-Diego

Yifat Bitton, College of Management Academic Studies

Rona Dinur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Elizabeth F. Emens, Columbia University

David Enoch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Joseph Fishkin, University of Texas

Stefan Gosepath, Freie Universität Berlin

Alon Harel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar, University of Haifa

Deborah Hellman, University of Virginia

Ori Herstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, University of Aarhus

Ofer Malcai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Barak Medina, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Meital Pinto, Carmel Academic Center, Haifa

John Roemer, Yale University

Shlomi Segall, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Re'em Segev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hanoch Sheinman, Bar Ilan University

Julie Suk, Yeshiva University

Yofi Tirosh, Tel Aviv University

The conference is supported by the Minerva Center for Human Rights, the Phillip and Estelle Mizock Chair in Administrative and Criminal Law, the Centre for Moral and Political Philosophy, the Aharon Barak Center for Interdisciplinary Legal Research and the Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law – all at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The conference will be open to the general public. Discussions will be in English. The full program and schedule will be published shortly.

For registration details and additional information please contact the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at mchr@savion.huji.ac.il

We look forward to seeing you at the conference.