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Tuesday 13 May 2008

Res Publica Postgraduate Essay Prize

For any eligible students:

For the fourth year running, Res Publica (the journal of the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy) will be awarding a prize for the best paper submitted by a current postgraduate student in 2008. This may be in any area of moral, legal or social philosophy, and should conform to the normal requirements for submissions - please see the website address below for details.
All entries must be received by 1 October 2008, with the winner to be announced in December 2008. The winner will receive £100 and a year's subscription to the journal. The winning essay will be published in Volume 15 (2009). The prize will be judged by a panel of referees, along with the journal editors.
For more information please contact:
Gideon Calder gideon.calder@newport.ac.uk
Jonathan Seglow j.seglow@rhul.ac.uk
Co-editors, Res Publica

Past Prize Winners:
Alexandra Couto, 'Privacy and Justification' 12.3 (2006)
Alasdair Cochcrane, 'Animal Rights and Animal Experiments: An Interest-Based Approach' 13.3 (2007)
Göran Duus-Otterström, 'Betting Against Hard Determinism' (forthcoming, 2008)

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