The Law Library of Congress is pleased to announce that legal and political philosophy professor Jeremy Waldron of New York University School of Law, will deliver the 2017 Frederic R. and Molly S. Kellogg Biennial Lecture on Jurisprudence. The lecture, “The Philosophical Foundations of Immigration Law,” is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 1.
For this year’s Kellogg Lecture, Professor Waldron will address how countries regulate immigration, specifically if nations have a right to consider their economic and cultural interests to shape immigration policy, and more broadly what historical and legal foundations give nations the authority to regulate newcomers into their respective countries.
The event will take place in the Mumford Room, located on the sixth floor of the James Madison Memorial B