Romanell Center Workshop
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Park Hall 141, UB North Campus

9:00-9:30 Semi-Kosher Breakfast 

9:30-10:30  Phil Reed (Romanell Fellow, Canisius College) “Suicide Prevention as Libertarian Paternalism”

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45  Steve Gilles (Quinnipiac Law School) “When, If Ever, Does the Free Exercise Clause Require an Exception Allowing Religiously-Compelled Abortions?"
      Clarke Forsythe (Senior Counsel, Americans United for Life)

11:45-1:45 Lunch

1:45-3:45  Frances Beckwith (Baylor University) “Burglars, Violinists, Growing Children, People Seeds, and Samaritans: Do We Really Need Analogies to Understand Pregnancy and Parental Obligations?”

3:45-4:00 Break

4:00-5:00  Neil Feit (Romanell Fellow, SUNY Fredonia) "Harms and Negative Influencers." (A reply to Johansson and Risberg’s ‘A Simple Analysis of Harm’.)

5:00-5:15 Break

5:15-6:15  Jens Johansson (Uppsala University, Sweden) “Pitcovski’s Explanation-Based Account of Harm”

For more information about the workshop or to receive advanced copies of the workshop papers, email David Hershenov at dh25@buffalo.edu