2019-20 Castle Lecture Series: “The Toxic Flower of a Fertile Seed: Civilization and Social Choice in a World of Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, and Artificial Intelligence”

Event time: 
Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 4:00pm through 5:30pm
Location: 
Institution for Social and Policy Studies (PROS77 ), A002
77 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker: 
Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Justice of the Supreme Court of California and Herman Phleger Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Event description: 

PROGRAM IN ETHICS, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

Each year the Dean of Yale College appoints a Castle Lecturer in Ethics, Politics and Economics to deliver a series of lectures to promote awareness of and sensitivity to ethical issues facing individuals in complex modern societies. Intended to foster interdisciplinary reflection on the moral foundations of society and government, the lectures were endowed by Mr. John K. Castle to honor his ancestor the Reverend James Pierpont, one of the University’s original founders. Yale University Press co-sponsors the lectures and publishes each set of lectures as a book.

This year’s lectures will be given by Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Justice of the Supreme Court of California, a scholar and an academic leader, and a former official in the Clinton and Obama administrations. He is an expert in administrative law and legislation, cyberlaw, criminal law, international law, the history of institutions, and the law of public health and safety. He was previously the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

LECTURE TITLES FOR THE SERIES:
1) NOV 12: “What’s Fertile is also Toxic”
2) NOV 13: “Deciding How to Decide” Part 1: “The Most Good You Can’t Do”
3) NOV 14: “Deciding How to Decide” Part 2: “Human and Artificial Judgment in a Second Best World”

This event is sponsored by the Yale Program on Ethics, Politics & Economics and Yale Law School.

Open to: 
General Public