Public lectures

When: Under postponement due to Covid-19

The NZ Centre for Legal Theory at Auckland Law School and Routledge Publishers present the 10th Annual Jurisprudence Lecture, to be given by Professor Ruth Chang, Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, who is visiting Auckland on a Hood Fellowship awarded by the University of Auckland.  

Hard Choices

Life is rife with hard choices. Should you be a musician or a lawyer? Have children or remain child-free? How much money, exactly, should you give to charity? And what about hard choices faced by families, groups, and governments? Should the government enact policies that reduce the standard of living of its citizens now in order to benefit future generations? Much of the popular literature on hard choices is psychological–how we, in fact, make hard choices and what are the ways in which we can go wrong in thinking about them. But there is a prior question that has gone unanswered. What is a hard choice? Why are some choices hard while others easy? Once we get clear on what makes a choice hard, we are in a better position to understand what we should do in the face of such choices. In this talk, I examine what makes a choice hard and offer a new way to think about hard choices that point to a different way of thinking about our place in the world.

When: Under postponement due to Covid-19

Given by Edwin Cameron (former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and Hotung Visiting Fellow, University of Canterbury) Wednesday 25th March. 5:30-7 pm, Auckland Law School, Stone Lecture Theatre Bldg 801, Rm 316.