Jeremy Waldron, University Professor and Professor of Law at New York University, will deliver the Sorensen Lecture at YDS on Thursday, February 2nd.
Entitled “A Docket of Dignity: Human Dignity in Eight Cases from Around the World,” the lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Niebuhr, with a reception to follow.
Waldron was educated in New Zealand and at Oxford, and his career has included appointments at Edinburgh, Berkeley, Princeton, and Columbia. His work concentrates on constitutionalism, human dignity, historic injustice, national security issues, and the rule of law, as well as historic political philosophy.
An accomplished scholar and author, he has 16 books and edited volumes to his credit. Among his books are Law and Disagreement (Oxford, 1999), The Dignity of Legislation (Cambridge 1999), Torture, Terror and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House (Oxford, 2010), and The Harm in Hate Speech (Harvard, 2012). A new book, One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality, will be published this spring.
Waldron is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, which awarded him its Phillips Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Jurisprudence. He has delivered many prestigious lectures around the world, including the Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School, the Holmes Lectures at Harvard, the Tanner Lectures at Berkeley, the Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh, and the Niemeyer Lectures at Notre Dame.
Yale Divinity School’s Margaret Lindquist Sorensen Lectureship was established in 1978 by a gift from her son, Dr. Andrew A. Sorensen, ’62 B.D., to provide an annual lecture on politics and ethics.