The Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership (OLPP), which聽celebrates its founding with a launch reception聽on Friday, May 13 in the Great Hall of McMaster鈥檚 University Club, is the brainchild of three internationally recognized legal philosophy professors who will be the partnership鈥檚 administrators. (Osgoode); Michael Giudice (91亚色 Philosophy); and Wil Waluchow (McMaster Philosophy and the聽Senator William McMaster Chair in Constitutional Studies) are the brain trust behind the partnership.

Above: From left, OLPP founders and administrators Michael Giudice (91亚色), Wil Waluchow (McMaster) and Fran莽ois Tanguay-Renaud (Osgoode)

"Through the OLPP, Osgoode, as well as McMaster's and 91亚色's departments of philosophy confirm their status as international leaders in legal philosophy and associated dimensions of political and moral philosophy,鈥� said Tanguay-Renaud, co-director with Giudice of the new combined Juris Doctor/Master of Arts in Philosophy (JD/MA) program offered by Osgoode and 91亚色鈥檚 philosophy department, and acting director of the at Osgoode.

鈥淭his collective effort, which builds on solid pre-existing relations between the partners, promises to enable new ambitious research collaborations and grant applications, allow for the development of cutting-edge opportunities for our JD and graduate students, and project even further the partners' already well-established reputations in the field."

Tanguay-Renaud said the OLPP formalizes existing links between the three partners that have become increasingly solid and fruitful since the beginning of the millennium.

鈥淭he OLPP will create even further opportunities for each institution and their students,鈥� said Tanguay-Renaud, noting that it has already helped to inspire and dynamize the Nathanson Centre鈥檚 Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism international seminar series, Osgoode鈥檚 鈥橭r 鈥橢met annual public lecture, the Transnational Legal Theory Journal, the McMaster visiting speakers series, Osgoode鈥檚 recent criminal law theory international conference, and other prominent legal philosophy initiatives at McMaster and 91亚色.

The OLPP鈥檚 latest initiative sees McMaster鈥檚 philosophy department, under the leadership of Waluchow and fellow OLPP member Professor Stefan Sciaraffa, hosting an international conference on 鈥淭he Nature of Law: Contemporary Perspectives鈥澛燤ay 11 to 15, with most of the biggest names in general analytical jurisprudence present.

The OLPP, which is also composed of a large contingent of faculty members from the three partner institutions, will be strongly represented in the conference program with Giudice delivering one of the keynote addresses. One of Osgoode鈥檚 newest hires, Professor l (hired from the University of Warwick in the UK), and Distinguished Research Professor (now serving as acting dean of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Graduate Studies) will also be presenting papers.

Suzanne Crosta, dean of McMaster鈥檚 Faculty of Humanities, and Osgoode Hall Law School Dean both have high praise for the OLPP. 鈥淲e look forward with great anticipation to the rich intellectual synergies that will result from the new partnership,鈥� Crosta said.

鈥淭he partnership brings together internationally recognized scholars to explore a shared passion for the philosophy of law and will provide a unique experience for the law and philosophy graduate students involved,鈥� noted Sossin.

What鈥檚 more, Brian Leiter, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago and one of the most eminent legal philosophers of our day, has written glowingly about the OLPP on his philosophy . "This will be of interest to students of legal philosophy, involving 91亚色, Toronto (and its law school, Osgoode) and McMaster University," writes Leiter,聽聽"which, together, comprise probably the strongest legal philosophy cohort in Canada and one of the best ones in North America."

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