Symposia
A symposium gathers several authors around a single question, often in dialogue. These are edited and introduced by an invited guest editor.
Leonard Cohen, Ethics, & the Artist
A symposium on the moral life of an artist, gathered in the weeks after Cohen's death.
When Leonard Cohen died in November 2016, C4eJ hosted a series of short reflections from poets, philosophers, literary scholars, and musicians. They were not obituaries. They were attempts to say what sort of moral presence Cohen had been — what kind of ethical life is available to the writer of songs who outlives his own public, or the poet who keeps writing into the last weeks.
Edited by The Editors of C4eJ
- Kaddish for Leonard Cohen (à la manière d’Allen Ginsberg) — George Elliott Clarke
- For Leonard Cohen — Leo Zaibert
- The Books that Got Away: Leonard Cohen’s View of the Poet’s Role — Norman Ravvin
- Leonard Cohen: Ethics & the Artist
- Leonard Cohen Bird On The Wire Viva Singers
- Leonard Cohen So Long Marianne Viva Singers
How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada
A public-issues forum on the politics of changing the rules of the game.
The question of how Canadians vote is not a narrowly technical one. Which ballots are easy to mark, which proposals survive committee, which voices get heard in a House that is — structurally — weighted for some and against others: these are questions in political ethics before they are questions in constitutional design. The forum collected in this symposium was convened to make that point visible.
Edited by The Editors of C4eJ
- How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada — Avvy Go
- Political Ethics and the House of Commons Electoral Reform Process (12/2016)
- How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada — Ruby Sahota
- How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada — Yasmin Dawood
- How Should We Vote?: Electoral Reform in Canada
- Public Issues Forum How Should We Vote Electoral Reform In Canada Composite
Legal Ethics in the Age of Law Tech
When the machine drafts the motion, whose duty is it to read it?
The rules of professional responsibility were written for a practice in which a lawyer read every line she signed. Law-tech does not fit the mould. This symposium asked four questions in sequence: what kinds of decisions are being delegated, what kinds of understanding are required of the lawyer who delegates them, who bears the blame when the machine is wrong, and whether the profession’s core duties survive that delegation at all.
Edited by The Editors of C4eJ
- Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech — Frank Pasquale
- Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech — Mireille Hildebrandt
- Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech — Paul Gowder
- Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech
- Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech (3 videos)