Professor Soucek addresses aesthetics, art and law at Harvard

On May 10, Professor Brian Soucek gave a talk titled “Aesthetic Immodesty” during a conference on “Aesthetic Normativity” at Harvard. In his talk, Soucek urged philosophers of art to expand the examples around which they build their theories by looking to the many ways aesthetic judgments are made within the law.

Soucek was one of five speakers at the conference, a joint presentation by Harvard’s and NYU’s philosophy departments.

Professor Soucek holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. His primary teaching and research interests are antidiscrimination law, civil procedure, constitutional law, and refugee/asylum law. He has clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Mark R. Kravitz in Connecticut, and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.