Upcoming Online Symposium on James Fleming & Linda McClain’s Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues
Posted By Danielle Citron On February 7, 2013 @ 11:54 am In Symposium (Ordered Liberty) | No Comments
During the week of February 25, we will be hosting an online symposium on James Fleming & Linda McClain’s new masterpiece Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues [1] (Harvard University Press 2013).
As HUP notes [2] on its site:
Many have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering the charges against liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic liberalism that takes responsibilities and virtues—as well as rights—seriously. They provide an account of ordered liberty that protects basic liberties stringently, but not absolutely, and permits government to encourage responsibility and inculcate civic virtues without sacrificing personal autonomy to collective determinations. The battle over same-sex marriage is one of many current controversies the authors use to defend their understanding of the relationship among rights, responsibilities, and virtues. Against accusations that same-sex marriage severs the rights of marriage from responsible sexuality, procreation, and parenthood, they argue that same-sex couples seek the same rights, responsibilities, and goods of civil marriage that opposite-sex couples pursue. Securing their right to marry respects individual autonomy while also promoting moral goods and virtues. Other issues to which they apply their idea of civic liberalism include reproductive freedom, the proper roles and regulation of civil society and the family, the education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms (of association and religion) and antidiscrimination law. Articulating common ground between liberalism and its critics, Fleming and McClain develop an account of responsibilities and virtues that appreciates the value of diversity in our morally pluralistic
constitutional democracy.
Our participants include:
Catherine Ross [3]
Chai Feldblum [4]
James Fleming [6]
Kent Greenfield [7]
Linda McClain [8]
Maxine Eichner [9]
Michael Dorf [10]
Rick Garnett [11]
Robert Tsai [12]
Robin West [13]
Tamara Metz [14]
Vivian Hamilton [15]
Article printed from Concurring Opinions: http://www.concurringopinions.com
URL to article: http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2013/02/upcoming-online-symposium-on-james-fleming-linda-mcclains-ordered-liberty-rights-responsibilities-and-virtues.html
URLs in this post:
[1] Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues: http://www.amazon.com/Ordered-Liberty-Rights-Responsibilities-Virtues/dp/0674059107
[2] notes: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674059108
[3] Catherine Ross: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.law.gwu.edu%2fFaculty%2fprofile.aspx%3fid%3d1713
[4] Chai Feldblum: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.law.georgetown.edu%2ffaculty%2ffeldblum-chai-r.cfm
[5] Corey Brettschneider: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.brown.edu%2fDepartments%2fPolitical_Science%2ffaculty%2ffacultypage.php%3fid%3d10059
[6] James Fleming: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bu.edu%2flaw%2ffaculty%2fprofiles%2fbios%2ffull-time%2ffleming_j.html
[7] Kent Greenfield: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bc.edu%2fschools%2flaw%2ffac-staff%2fdeans-faculty%2fgreenfieldk.html
[8] Linda McClain: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bu.edu%2flaw%2ffaculty%2fprofiles%2fbios%2ffull-time%2fmcclain_l.html
[9] Maxine Eichner: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.law.unc.edu%2ffaculty%2fdirectory%2feichnermaxine%2f
[10] Michael Dorf: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.lawschool.cornell.edu%2ffaculty%2fbio.cfm%3fid%3d333
[11] Rick Garnett: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=https%3a%2f%2flaw.nd.edu%2fdirectory%2frichard-garnett%2f
[12] Robert Tsai: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wcl.american.edu%2ffaculty%2frtsai%2f
[13] Robin West: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.law.georgetown.edu%2ffaculty%2fwest-robin-l.cfm
[14] Tamara Metz: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2facademic.reed.edu%2fpoli_sci%2ffaculty%2fmetz.html
[15] Vivian Hamilton: https://umail.umaryland.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=TLvq4F5UWkqY6_5QkT26GkhgiU7h2M9Iqght0vW1OG0ByTjYbSi4pWQVlBBdvuO_tSW2Q4AhqOM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2flaw2.wm.edu%2ffaculty%2fbios%2ffulltime%2fhamilton-987.php%3fsvr%3dlaw
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