On mercy and legal obligations with Heidi Hurd (University of Illinois)

Welcome to Just Theory! In this episode we speak with Amber Polk, who works as an Assistant Professor at University of Alabama School of Law. As a legal philosopher with a primary interest in our collective environmental crises, Amber’s research focuses on rights-based environmentalism, as a legal, political, and moral movement. In this episode, we discuss Amber’s views on collectivism, consumerism and living a good life. We hope you enjoy.We are grateful to Amber for her time and engagement. To further engage with her thought-provoking research, please visit: https://law.ua.edu/faculty_staff/amber-polk/If you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications! You can find us on Twitter: @JustTheory2Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - NYU Law School (JSD Candidate)

Welcome to Just Theory! In this episode we speak with Alma Diamond, a Faculty Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School (from July 2026, Alma will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas School of Law) where she writes and teaches on contracts, legal philosophy, and constitutional theory. Her research explores how contracts and constitutions distribute power among individuals across time. In this episode, we touch on those themes as well as discussing foreseeability in contract law.You can download the paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5395745 We are grateful to Alma for her time and engagement. To further engage with her thought-provoking research, please visit: https://almadiamond.net/. You can also find Alma on Twitter: https://x.com/alma_diamond and Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/almadiamond.bsky.social.If you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications! You can find us on Twitter: @JustTheory2Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - NYU Law School (JSD Candidate)

Welcome to Just Theory! In this episode we speak with Miranda Fricker, Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the New York Institute for Philosophy. Miranda’s work is mainly in Moral Philosophy and Social Epistemology, and, since 2015 she has served as ‘expert’ moral philosopher on the Spoliation Advisory Panel, a UK government-appointed body of experts that considers claims concerning loss of cultural property during the Nazi era. This episode took us into the realm of forgiveness, blame, and Bernard Williams, whom Miranda describes as 'A Philosopher of Ethical Freedom'. We hope you enjoy.We are grateful to Professor Fricker for her time and engagement. To further engage with her thought-provoking research, please visit: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/MirandaFricker.html or https://www.mirandafricker.com.If you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications! You can find us on Twitter: @JustTheory2Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - NYU Law School (JSD Candidate)

Welcome to Just Theory! In this episode we speak with Heidi Hurd, Ross and Helen Workman Chair in Law and Co-Director of the Program in Law and Philosophy at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her research spans areas of criminal law, torts, environmental law, environmental ethics, and moral, legal, and political philosophy. In this episode, we talk in particular about morality and the concept of mercy.We are grateful to Professor Hurd for her time and engagement. To further engage with her thought-provoking research, please visit: https://law.illinois.edu/faculty-research/faculty-profiles/heidi-m-hurd/#podcast #academia #legaltheory #learning #philosophy #womentalk #jurisprudence #philosophy #justacademicthings #justtheory #project #university #newcastle #nyu #criminallaw #mercyIf you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications! You can find us on Twitter: @JustTheory2Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - NYU Law School (JSD Candidate)

In this episode, we are speaking with Salomé Viljoen, an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she studies the information economy, particularly data about people and the automated systems that are trained on such data.Salomé is interested in how information law structures inequality and how alternative legal arrangements might address that inequality.We discuss the concept of privacy, creating a cohesive data framework and legal interests in the data landscape.If you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications! You can find us on Twitter: @JustTheory2Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - NYU Law School (JSD Candidate)

In this episode, we are speaking with Regina Schouten, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, where she researches the areas of social and political philosophy and ethics.  Her most sustained research projects concern political liberalism and political legitimacy, educational justice, and the gendered division of labor.We discuss the importance of choice of normative principles in the democratic order, the role of equality in theories of justice, and wide-ranging perspectives on liberalism.We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.#podcast #academia #legaltheory #learning #philosophy #womentalk #jurisprudence #philosophy #justacademicthings #justtheory #project #university #newcastle #nyu #newrelease #constitutional #government #legalsystemIf you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications! You can find us on Twitter: @JustTheory2Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - NYU Law School (JSD Candidate)

In this episode, we speak with Dr Raquel Barradas de Freitas, who currently works as a Law Clerk to the President of the Portuguese Constitutional Court and as Lecturer in Jurisprudence at Trinity College, Oxford. Raquel’s primary research interests are in general jurisprudence with a focus on interpretation, practical and theoretical reasoning, judicial decision making and, in particular, the justification of judicial decisions.In this episode we talk about the validity of tech-powered predictive analytics in constitutional courts, judicial authority and the role of trust in modern constitutional order.Remember to check out Raquel's anthology 'Trust Matters': https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/trust-matters-9781509935253/We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. If you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications!Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - Graduate Division, NYU Law School (LLM Candidate)#podcast #academia #legaltheory #learning #philosophy #womentalk #jurisprudence #philosophy #justacademicthings #justtheory #project #university #newcastle #nyu #newrelease #constitutional #government #legalsystemIf you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications! You can find us on Twitter: @JustTheory2Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - NYU Law School (JSD Candidate)

In this episode, we are speaking with Amalia Amaya Navarro,  Research Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and British Academy Global Professor at the University of Edinburgh, where she works primarily in philosophy of law, with a particular focus on legal reasoning and epistemology, theories of justice, and international normative theory. We discuss virtue ethics, reflect on Dworkinian Hercules and consider new and old perspectives on virtuous judicial decision making.We invite you to engage with Amalia’s recent scholarship:Virtue and the Normativity of Law, ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY TODAY: DIALOGOI, vol. 4, suppl., 2022. Precedent, Exemplarity, and Imitation,’ T. Endicott, S. Lewis and H. D. Kristjánsson, (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Precedent, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023.  We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. If you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications!Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - Graduate Division, NYU Law School (LLM Candidate)#podcast #academia #legaltheory #learning #philosophy #womentalk #jurisprudence #philosophy #justacademicthings #justtheory #project #university #newcastle #nyu #newrelease #constitutional #government #legalsystemIf you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications! You can find us on Twitter: @JustTheory2Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - NYU Law School (JSD Candidate)

In this episode, we had the privilege of speaking with Karen McAuliffe, Professor in Law and Language at University of Birmingham, whose principal area of research focuses on the relationship between law, language and translation in the EU legal order.We talk about the structure of decision making in EU courts, and all that is lost and found in translation of judicial opinions.Please engage with Professor McAuliffe's inspiring scholarship by visiting: - www.llecj.karenmcauliffe.com (to learn more about the Law and Language at the European Court of Justice project);- www.karenmcauliffe.com (for non-paywalled versions of papers);- https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/researching-the-european-court-of-justice/1C424F2249C802476097D3F91743AAB3 (the book that the chapter we are discussing is in).In addition, Karen also offers career mentoring workshops and one-to-one sessions, and can be contacted directly about this. We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. If you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications!Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - Graduate Division, NYU Law School (LLM Candidate)#podcast #academia #legaltheory #learning #philosophy #womentalk #jurisprudence #philosophy #justacademicthings #justtheory #project #university #newcastle #nyu  #newrelease #constitutional #government #legalsystemIf you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications! You can find us on Twitter: @JustTheory2Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - NYU Law School (JSD Candidate)

Welcome back to Just Theory! Season 2 is almost here. Some pretty exciting news in this episode, too…Don't forget to subscribe - we are only getting started.Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // inaugural season generously funded by Newcastle University // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - Graduate Division, NYU Law School (LLM Candidate '21)Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheoryLogo: Lukasz WawrzyszczukMusic: Tom HumeIf you like what we do, you can buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/justtheory. We would also love to hear from you about potential guests and new publications! You can find us on Twitter: @JustTheory2Changing the face of legal theory // Championing female-led scholarship in analytic legal philosophy and jurisprudence // Dr Emilia Mickiewicz - Newcastle University & Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk - NYU Law School (JSD Candidate)