CAPPE

  • ANU
  • CSU
  • University of Melbourne

CURRENT RESEARCH

Criminal Justice Ethics

  • Police Corruption
  • Loyalty, Whistleblowing and Witness Protection More

Business and
Professional Ethics

  • Corporate Responsibility for Economic and Ethical Sustainability
  • Regulating Communication in the Professions More

Ethical Issues
in Biotechnology

  • The Ethics of Life-extending Technology
  • The Ethics of Sex Selection More

IT and Nanotechnology
Ethics of Emergent
Technology

  • E-Government
  • The Precautionary Principle in Nanotechnology More

Political Violence and
State Sovereignty

  • Morality of "Dirty Hands" as an Issue in Political Leadership
  • Ethics, Technology and the "New Wars" More

Justice and the Human Good

  • Obligations of Individual Citizens of Wealthy Nations in Relation to International Poverty
  • The Obligations of Welfare Recipients More

WHAT'S NEW

What's new in CAPPE publications?
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UPCOMING
EVENTS

CAPPE ANU Seminar

Wednesday 15th of July -

Kit Wellman:

Rights and State Punishment More


Conferences

Cappe -

Converging Technologies: Some Pressing Ethical Issues (22nd July)

Other -

AAP 2009 (5th - 10th July)

SPT 2009 (7th - 10th July)


Upcoming Events

SEMINARS

Seminars In Canberra

The Centre presents a series of weekly seminars at the ANU in Canberra.  In 2009, seminars will usually be held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm, in the Arts Meeting Room (directly below CAPPE), Ground Floor, Haydon Allen Building (Building 022), The Australian National University. Click here for future seminars.

 

Next Canberra seminar-

 

Wednesday 15th of July (2009) at 4pm: Kit Wellman

Title: Rights and State Punishment
Abstract

In this essay, I draw upon the insights of W.D. Ross, H.L.A. Hart and John Simmons to develop and defend a “rights” theory of state punishment. Specifically, in response to the two key questions (1) “Why may criminals be punished?”  and (2) “Why is the state uniquely authorized to treat criminals in this way?”, I argue that (1) criminals cannot righteously object to being punished because, in wronging others, they forfeit their rights not to be punished, and that (2) the state violates no rights in assuming exclusive control over the punitive process only because it is uniquely capable of adequately realizing the morally significant aims that a system of punishment can achieve.  I then explain how this theory confirms the need to revise the prevailing justification for international criminal law.

 

 

Enquiries to Dr Daniel Cohen: dcohen@csu.edu.au or (02) 6933 2565


Future Seminars in Canberra

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Past Seminars in Canberra

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Seminars In Melbourne

The Centre presents regular seminars at the University of Melbourne. Seminars will normally be held on Wednesdays at 2:15pm to 4pm in the Moot Court Room, Ground Floor, Old Quadrangle (not to be confused with the Mooting Court in the new Law Building). Click here for future seminars.

 

Next Melbourne seminar- TBA

 

Enquiries to Dr Steven Curry: sbcurry@unimelb.edu.au or (03) 8344 3852

If you wish to receive notification of forthcoming CAPPE Seminars in Melbourne, you can send an email to mailto:LISTSERV@artsit.unimelb.edu.au with the text "subscribe cappe-broadcast Your First Name Your Last Name" in the BODY of the email and you will be added to our list automatically.


Seminars in Wagga Wagga

The Centre presents regular seminars on the Wagga Wagga campus of Charles Sturt University. These are held on Tuesdays at 5:00 pm in Room 181, Marchant Hall unless otherwise stated.

Click here for future seminars.

 

Next Wagga Wagga seminar- TBA

 

Enquiries to Dr Daniel Cohen: dcohen@csu.edu.au or (02) 6933 2565


RECENT EVENTS
National Centre for Biosecurity: Signing Ceremony

2 September 2008, Sutherland Room, Holme Building, University of Sydney (Main Campus).

The National Centre for Biosecurity (NCB) officially became a joint-enterprise between the Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Sydney. This important event was inaugurated by the signing of an agreement between the two universities by Professor Ian Chubb, Vice Chancellor of ANU, and Dr Michael Spence, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. More about the ceremony

Melbourne Seminars

In collaboration with University of Melbourne Philosophy Department and the Castan Centre at Monash University

4 September 2008, 4:15 pm in the Moot Court Room, South West Corner of the Old (Law) Quad, University of Melbourne

Professor Marilyn Friedman (CAPPE/Washington, St Louis): Understanding as a Requirement for Blaming

4 September 2008, 6pm at the Castan Centre, 472 Bourke Street

Professor Larry May (CAPPE/Washington, St Louis): Habeas Corpus, Procedural Rights and Fundamental Law

The freedom paradox. Towards a post-secular ethics - Professor Clive Hamilton

5 August 2008, Co-op Bookshop, Union Court, Australian National University.

Launched by Justice Michael Kirby. More about the launch

Criminal Justice Ethics Workshop: Criminalization

3 July 2008, Arts Meeting Room, Haydon-Allen Building, Australian National University.

A half day workshop on Douglas Husak's (Philosophy, Rutger's) recently authored Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law (OUP, 2008) More about the workshop

Morality and Political Violence - Professor C.A.J. (Tony) Coady