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Maggie O’Brien
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Assistant Prof in Legal and Political Philosophy at YorkU, Toronto Canada
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May 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Looking forward to speaking at this conference with @chloejskennedy.bsky.social among others!

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May 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
My article on #MeToo and #ShoutYourAbortion and what they show us about privacy and standing has now been published in Legal Theory as first view.

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#MeToo and #ShoutYourAbortion: Claiming Standing and Exploding the Private Sphere | Legal Theory | Cambridge Core
#MeToo and #ShoutYourAbortion: Claiming Standing and Exploding the Private Sphere
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May 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The workshop on Jurisprudence by Experiment is on Monday 2nd June @ 2-5.15pm and is organised by Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social (Surrey) and our own Tsampika Taralli. Speakers include Eleonore Neufeld (UMass), Jonathan Ichikawa (UBC), Guilherme Almeida (Insper), and Karolina Prochownik (Ruhr).
May 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Looks like a fabulous set of events for this year's Legal Theory Festival. The programme is available here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/.... Please repost and share widely!
May 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Now available as a (potentially affordable) paperback www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
April 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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On 28 March, Daniel Wodak will be presenting his paper 'Malapportionment: A Murder Mystery' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion!

Register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w
March 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Our annual Call for Abstracts is out! We really look forward to reading about your fascinating research as we select the speakers for our 2025/2026 Seminar Series. Also, feel free to share this call with your friends and colleagues. You can find more details (including deadlines) below:
March 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Forthcoming in Thought! Continuing to push scepticism about standing to blame, this time by thinking about standing to praise.

Here’s the penultimate version of ‘Standing to Blame and Standing to Praise?’

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Maggie O’Brien, Standing to Blame and Standing to Praise? - PhilPapers
Praise and blame are both forms of moral assessment. Yet, the literature on standing has focussed on blame – to blame appropriately one needs standing to do so. Praise has been ...
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March 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
new paper forthcoming in Legal Theory - what MeToo and ShoutYourAbortion tell us about standing and privacy.

See below for draft.
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Maggie O’Brien, #metoo and #shoutyourabortion: Claiming Standing and Exploding the Private Sphere - PhilPapers
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February 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM