Below is the audio recording of Seana Shiffrin’s presidential address, “Democratic Representation as Duty Delegation,” given at the 2022 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Democratic Representation as Duty Delegation,” by Seana Shiffrin
Seana Shiffrin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA, where she has taught since 1992. She is the cofounder and codirector of the UCLA Law and Philosophy Program. Shiffrin received her BA from UC Berkeley, where she was the University Medalist. She attended Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar and received the BPhil with distinction and the DPhil in philosophy. She earned her JD from Harvard Law School. Shiffrin teaches courses on moral and political philosophy as well as contracts, freedom of speech, and legal theory. Her recent book, Democratic Law (OUP, 2021), addresses the intimate connection between law and democracy and traces the implications of a democratic legal approach for the common law, the doctrine of good faith, and constitutional balancing. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016, she received the UCLA School of Law’s Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. She served as president of the APA Pacific Division in 2021–22.
About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the presidential addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them felt are most important for people in the field to know. The Blog wishes to thank the APA leadership and Jeremy Cushing for their support and assistance in making these recordings available.
