Society for Applied Philosophy

Each year the Society for Applied Philosophy hosts a lecture which all are welcome to attend, followed by a reception for SAP members.

The 2011 lecture The Global Reach of Human Rights was given by Professor Amartya Sen in June 2011 in Oxford. A paper based on this lecture and written by Professor Sen will be published in 29:1.

The 2012 lecture will be given by Joseph Raz. He is a legal, moral and political philosopher, and one of the most prominent advocates of legal positivism. The Society for Applied Philosophy holds an annual conference. The 2012 conference is the SAP’s 30th anniversary conference and includes a discussion board on the nature of applied philosophy. The event will be an open themed applied philosophy conference.

Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty. Randy E. Barnett

 

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The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett argues that since the nation's founding, but especially since the 1930s, the courts have been cutting holes in the original Constitution and its amendments to eliminate the parts that protect liberty from the power of government. From the Commerce Clause, to the Necessary and Proper Clause, to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, to the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court has rendered each of these provisions toothless. In the process, the written Constitution has been lost. Barnett establishes the original meaning of these lost clauses and offers a practical way to restore them to their central role in constraining government: adopting a "presumption of liberty" to give the benefit of the doubt to citizens when laws restrict their rightful exercises of liberty. He also provides a new, realistic and philosophically rigorous theory of constitutional legitimacy that justifies both interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning and, where that meaning is vague or open-ended, construing it so as to better protect the rights retained by the people. As clearly argued as it is insightful and provocative, Restoring the Lost Constitution forcefully disputes the conventional wisdom, posing a powerful challenge to which others must now respond. Randy E. Barnett Lectures at Princeton: Play lecture.   56K 350K  56K 350K

Sobre la nulidad de la elección de una Fiscal con mano dura

Fuente: La Silla Vacía.

Sentencia Consejo de Estado. Benavides - Fiscal V. Morales

Fernando Hinestrosa. Libertad e igualdad social. (Post tenebras spero lucem)

Con profunda tristeza he recibido la noticia de la muerte del Doctor Fernando Hinestrosa (Rector de la Universiad Externado de Colombia), sin duda uno de los personajes más insignes de Colombia, cuyo legado representa un norte para el futuro de la educación nacional e internacional y para la solución de algunos temas pendientes que dificultan el pleno desarrollo del Estado Social en Colombia.

Tal como él mismo manifestó, su espíritu republicano se impuso para enderezar y mantener su talante liberal. Ese mismo espíritu de progreso y de avanzada le permitió sacar adelante su ambicioso proyecto educativo, fundamentado en la libertad, la democracia, la responsabilidad, la autonomía y la igualdad social. 

Docteur honoris causa 2010 de l'Université Panthéon-Assas:

- Aujourd'hui : Recteur - Universidad Externado de Colombia 

- Spécialité : droit civil, droit comparé

- Parcours : Magistrat de la Cour Suprême de Justice (1967-1968); Ministre de la Justice puis de l'Education (1968-1970); Ambassadeur auprès du Vatican (1980); Membre de la Cour d'arbitrage de La Haye; Membre de la Société Générale du Droit Comparé; Président d'honneur de l'Alliance colombo-française.  

Palabras del Dr. Fernando Hinestrosa Forero tras haber sido recibido con un fuerte aplauso por los estudiantes, profesores y empleados de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, por cuenta del título de Doctor Honoris Causa que la Universidad Panthéon-Assas le concedió el día 29 de Enero del 2010 en sesión solemne en el anfiteatro de La Sorbona de París.