Events and Activities
In addition to the Law, Reason, and Value Colloquium, the Center for Legal Philosophy hosts and supports individual events that bring together scholars from across disciplines to address issues spanning law and philosophy.
2025-2026
CLP | Alec Walen: Punishment, Penalty, and Incapacitation
The UC Irvine Center for Legal Philosophy welcomes Professor Alec Walen in an author-meets-critics discussion of his forthcoming book, Punishment,...
Jan 28, 2026 3:30pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States
CLP | What is Academic Freedom?
Please join us for a university-wide discussion of this timely and urgent question. To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please...
Feb 25, 2026 3:30pm
Multipurpose Academic and Administrative Building (MPAA) Suite 100, 4302 Pereira Drive , Irvine, CA 92612, United StatesPast Events
This conference, hosted by the UCI Center for Legal Philosophy, will examine the underexplored topic of defamation, both as a moral and as a legal wrong, with the aim of...
What are rights? How do they relate to duties, powers, and interests that ought to be protected? What normative work is done by calling something a right? Could morality or...