Morrell Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy

12/09/2025

That’s a wrap on the 18th UK Annual Legal and Political Philosophy Conference. This year hosted by the Morrell Centre!

28/06/2022

Thanks to the C&JB Morrell Trust, we have 5 x £3000 bursaries for 2022 HOME students on the LLM in Legal and Political Theory at York Law School. If you have already applied, then you will get an email. If not, apply by 11/07 https://buff.ly/3QTtmyU and details will be sent.

Question the fundamental aspects of political life and gain a firm grounding in key legal issues

29/04/2021

The Morrell Centre for Toleration, which is generously funded by the C & JB Morrell Trust, is changing into the Morrell Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy. We will still have toleration as a focus, but hope to broaden the research and activities we support. Further details will soon be available on a revamped website. In the meantime, please continue to follow us.

08/01/2020

Thanks to a generous gift from the Acton Society Trust there are two scholarships available for students applying to study a PhD degree for 2020/21 entry.

03/09/2019

A previously undiscovered manuscript by John Locke on “Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others”.

Newly discovered ‘Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others’ shows the Enlightenment thinker expressing unexpected social liberalism

09/06/2019

Join us TODAY for discussions of populism, fake news, and the need to belong.

The murdered MP Jo Cox said ‘there is more that unites us than divides us’, expressing a sentiment often offered after conflicts or atrocities. But is this a utopian dream? Do division and mutual suspicion characterise modern societies? 

06/06/2019

https://t.co/OEUOSOc6CM

THE sister of murdered MP Jo Cox has joined the line-up for the York Festival of Ideas.

06/06/2019

The murdered MP Jo Cox said ‘there is more that unites us than divides us’, expressing a sentiment often offered after conflicts or atrocities. But is this a utopian dream? Do division and mutual suspicion characterise modern societies?

Our Festival Focus Day explores the rise of the so-called ‘uncivil’ society. Why do people become alienated? Why do we fear difference? Does division paradoxically reflect a human need to belong? Is this need to belong more acute as globalisation spreads? Our expert speakers include Danny Dorling, author of Rule Britannia; Kim Leadbeater, an Ambassador for the Jo Cox Foundation which was set up after the murder of her sister, Jo Cox MP; Matthew Goodwin of the University of Kent; Jonathan Isaby, Editor of BrexitCentral; Noga Levy-Rapoport of the UK Student Climate Network; Elli Narewska of the Guardian Foundation; Charlotte O’Brien of the University of York; Gianni Rufini, Director General of Amnesty International Italy; and Cephas Williams of the 56 Black Men campaign.

Join in the conversation as we discuss if toleration has become an outdated concept.

Our Focus Day Is presented in collaboration with The Morrell Centre for Toleration, which is generously supported by the C and JB Morrell Trust.

Toleration: An outdated concept? - 9 June

http://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2019/focus-days/toleration-concept/

07/05/2019

Tickets now available for www.yorkfestivalofideas.com including the Morrell Focus Day on Toleration http://ow.ly/NQw750u1pS9. Is toleration an outdated concept? Come and find out on Sunday 9 June.

York Festival of Ideas 2019 takes place from 4 to 16 June under the banner of A World of Wonder

09/06/2018

Kareem Shaheen from the Guardian finishes the day with a talk on reporting from the front line.