Seminar Series on the Common Good
19th April 2021
Prof Ryan Meade, Aquinas Institute Research Fellow, has set up the “Common Good Project” under the Faculty of Law, cosponsored by the Aquinas Institute, to foster discussion on the relationship between law and the common good. The Project begins with weekly conversations in which legal theorists, philosophers, policy makers and economists explore the common good from various perspectives. Full details of the talks below; to register go to their page on the Law Faculty website.
22 April 2021 (7.30pm)
Assistant Professor of Law, Trinity College Dublin
‘Constitutions, Property Rights, and Judicial Assessments of the Common Good’
26 April 2021 (5.00pm)
Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constituional Law
Edinburgh Law School
‘The Common Good and the Commonwealth’
28 April 2021 (5.00pm)
Contributing Editor, American Purpose
Author, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
3 May 2021 (5.00pm)
Professor of Political Sociology
Fellow, Georhe K. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
Queen’s University Belfast
5 May 2021 (5.00pm)
Director, The McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life
Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Christ Church, Oxford
10 May 2021 (5.00pm)
Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
13 May 2021 (7.30pm)
Fellow, Ethics & Public Policy Center
Senior Fellow, Abigail Adams Institute
17 May 2021 (5.00pm)
Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford
Author, Counsels of Imperfection
18 May 2021 (5.00pm)
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Notre Dame
Author, Aristotle, Aquinas and the Promise of the Common Good
26 May 2021 (5.00pm)
Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy
Director, Institute for Ethics in AI
Senior Research Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford
‘The Common Good and Individual Rights’
2 June 2021 (5.00pm)
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws
Member of the House of Lords
Director, Â International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute
‘Reimagining the Common Good’
9 June 2021 201 (5.00pm)
Member of the House of Lords
Chancellor, Regent’s Universoty London
TBD June 2021
Lecturer in Politics
Pembroke College, Oxford
‘Chinese Conceptions of the Common Good’