Raimond Gaita & The School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University warmly invite you to the
2010 Simone Weil Lecture on Human Value "To Whom Must We Answer? Responsibility, Community and Criminal Law." By Antony Duff Public Lecture Introduced by Raimond Gaita SYDNEY LECTURE: Monday 2 August 5.30 for 6.00pm Dixson Room, Mitchell Wing, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street Sydney Cost: $22, $15 (Friends, student concessions), $20 (seniors) - includes light refreshments Bookings Essential on 02 9273 1770 or [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> For More Information: www.acu.edu.au/65303<http://www.acu.edu.au/65303> LECTURE ABSTRACT:A central function of criminal law, I will argue, concerns the attribution of responsibility. The criminal law defines a range of public wrongs-wrongs that are the business of all members of the political community; and it provides for those who commit such wrongs to be called to answer (held responsible) for them through the criminal process of trial and punishment. Such a practise of calling wrongdoers to answer depends on the existence of a community to which the wrongdoers and those who hold them responsible belong: for to call another person to answer, to hold him responsible, is to address him as a fellow member of a community by whose values we are all both bound and protected. In the context of domestic criminal law, that community is the polity: in a liberal democracy criminal wrongdoers are called to answer to their fellow citizens, as fellow members of the polity. This perspective on criminal law highlights some important questions about the way in which offenders are treated, and seen, by their fellow citizens. We must ask whether the institutions and practices of our criminal laws (and we, in whose name those institutions act) do address offenders and defendants as citizens; we must ask what kind of criminal law, and in particular what kinds of punishment, citizens can properly impose on each other; and we must ask what moral consequences flow from a failure to recognise our civic fellowship with those whom we would punish. ABOUT ANTONY DUFF: Antony Duff is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is internationally renowned for his work on the philosophy of criminal law - in particular on the philosophy of punishment, and on issues that connect the philosophy of action with the basic principles of criminal liability. Amongst his many publications he has written Trials and Punishments; Criminal Attempts; and Punishment, Communication and Community. More recently, he has published Answering for Crime, which focuses on the structures of criminal responsibility; and, with Lindsay Farmer, Sandra Marshall, and Victor Tadros, The Trial on Trial III: Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial. Special Seminar with Antony Duff "Citizens and Enemies in Criminal Law" SYDNEY SEMINAR: Tuesday 3 August 6:00pm - 8:00pm, Coles Room, level 3, Macquarie St Wing, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street Sydney Limit of 23 People - Free but Bookings Essential on 02 9273 1770 or [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> SEMINAR ABSTRACT: Günther Jakobs draws an influential and controversial distinction between 'Bürgerstrafrecht' and 'Feindstrafrecht'-between 'citizen criminal law', i.e. criminal law as applied to those who are treated, and protected, as full members of the polity; and 'enemy criminal law', i.e. criminal law as applied to those who are treated as outsiders, to whom we need not accord the protections that citizens can expect. I will discuss some of the ways in which this distinction can be seen to work in our existing penal practices and policies, and identify some of the different groups that are treated, to a greater or lesser degree, as 'enemies' rather than as 'citizens'. My main concern, however, is with the normative questions that the distinction raises. One question is whether we should connect citizenship and criminal law in this way-whether it is as citizens that we are bound and protected by the criminal law: I will argue that in a polity that aspires to be a liberal republic, the idea of citizenship should indeed play this central role. But further questions then arise about how citizens can treat each other (what kind of criminal law citizens can properly impose on each other and on themselves); about the conditions of citizenship, and in particular about whether and how it should be conditional; and about how different kinds of non-citizen should be treated by the criminal law. (Please note: this office is only attended on Mondays and Wednesdays) Leonie Martino PA to Professor Raimond Gaita Australian Catholic University Limited Melbourne Campus (St Patrick's) Level 4, 250 Victoria Parade Locked Bag 4115 Fitzroy VIC 3065 Phone: +61 3 9953 3160 Fax: +61 3 9953 3325 Email: [email protected] ABN 15 050 192 660 / CRICOS Registration: 00004G, 00112C, 00873F, 00885B
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