Markets, Justice, and the Law

May 17-31, 2013

Two symposia, the first in Chicago on May 17 and the second at Georgetown on May 31, brought together ethicists, lawyers, and economists to examine how moral critiques of the economic order might be better positioned to steer market practices and legal regulation of markets. 

Questions addressed include: What does the gap between judging morally and actually transforming the economic order mean for implementing justice within society? How can critical judgments be brought to bear in increasingly complex, bureaucratic, and market driven policy debates about how law regulates markets? What is the role for social institutions—particularly those with a religious character and which function as moral exemplars—in transforming the economic order outside of governmental regulations? Where are the possible points of contact between regulatory schemes and non-market driven modes of moral judgment?

Chicago Participants

  • William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago
  • Michael Kessler, Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Associate Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University 
  • Luke Bretherton. Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University Divinity School
  • Elizabeth Schiltz, Professor, Thomas J. Abood Research Scholar, and Co-Director of the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy, University of St. Thomas Law School
  • Rebecca Todd Peters, Associate Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department, Elon University 
  • Mark Modak-Truran, J. Will Young Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law 
  • Elisabeth Kinkaid (and David Clairmont in abstentia), University of Notre Dame

Respondent

  • Kevin Murphy, George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Georgetown Participants

  • William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago
  • Michael Kessler, Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Associate Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University
  • Kevin Lee, Associate Professor of Law, Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
  • Robin Lovin, Director of Research at the Center of Theological Inquiry
  • Robert Hockett, Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
  • Anthony Cook, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Shaun Casey, Professor of Christian Ethics, Wesley Theological Seminary
  • Jason Brennan, Assistant Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
  • Zachary Calo, Michael and Dianne Swygert Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Law, Valparaiso University Law School

Respondent

  • Rob Vischer, Dean and Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas Law School

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