UCL-Cornell Workshop
on “Legal Pathologies
and the Rule of Law”

Myron Taylor Hall, Room 186, Ithaca NY,
June 15–16, 2026

Agenda

Monday, 15 June 2026

08:30–09:00
Breakfast and Introduction
09:00–10:45
Gerald Postema (UNC–CH): “No Tyranny More Cruel”
11:00–12:45
Amanda Greene (UC Santa Barbara): “What’s Wrong with Lawfare?”
12:45–13:15
Lunch on site
13:30–15:15
Lucas Stanczyk (Harvard): “The Shadow Republic: Liberalism, State Violence, the Responsibility of Intellectuals”
15:30–16:30
Outdoor excursion
17:00–20:00
Dinner in town for participants

Tuesday, 16 June 2026

08:30–09:00
Breakfast
09:00–10:45
Kevin Toh (UCL): “Mutual Freedom, Substrata of Rules, and Subversive Legalism”
11:00–12:45
Hilary Nye (Alberta): “The Rule of Law as a Thick Concept”
12:45–13:15
Lunch on site
13:30–15:15
Mitchell Berman (Penn): “Cheating, Second-Order Rules, and Principles”
15:30–16:00
Closing discussion
Registration