{"id":81,"date":"2009-10-04T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T21:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hltf\/?p=81"},"modified":"2009-10-04T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T21:06:48","slug":"jeremy-waldron-on-tuesday-106-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/2009\/10\/04\/jeremy-waldron-on-tuesday-106-at-noon\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Waldron on Tuesday, 10\/6 at Noon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Waldron (NYU), who is delivering the Holmes Lectures at Harvard Law School this coming week, will give a talk to the Harvard Legal Theory Forum on the topic &#8220;Poverty and Democracy&#8221; on Tuesday, October 6 in Pound 332.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Waldron will speak about the tension between modern, representative capitalist democracy and distributive justice: is it an inherent feature of modern democracy that there be deep structural material and power inequalities? At what point along the continuum do we move from living in a uncomfortably unequal democracy to not living in a democracy at all? How much inequality and poverty is compatible with democracy? <\/p>\n<p>Relevant background reading is Waldron&#8217;s short essay in the 15 July 1999 London Review of books on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v21\/n14\/wald01_.html\">&#8220;The Plight of Poor in the Midst of Plenty.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lunch will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to attend, please RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:hltf@law.harvard.edu\">hltf@law.harvard.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Waldron (NYU), who is delivering the Holmes Lectures at Harvard Law School this coming week, will give a talk to the Harvard Legal Theory Forum on the topic &#8220;Poverty and Democracy&#8221; on Tuesday, October 6 in Pound 332. Prof. Waldron will speak about the tension between modern, representative capitalist democracy and distributive justice: is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8587],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hltf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}