International Society for Utilitarian Studies (ISUS)

The International Society for Utilitarian Studies, administered from the Bentham Project at University College London, sponsors major conferences, seminars, and other meetings. It aims to provide a forum for scholarly debate and research in the history of utilitarian thought, and its present-day relevance in the fields of ethics, politics, law, economics, and public policy. Members of the Society are entitled to a discount of 25% on volumes in the new authoritatve edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.

The Society's conferences have recently been held in Tokyo (1994), New Orleans (1997), Wake Forest (2000), Lisbon (2003), Hanover, NH, USA (2005), London (2006).

The Tenth Conference was held on 11-14 September 2008, at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California, U.S.A.). Visit the conference website —
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/kadish/isus/index.html

For information on Utilitas, the journal of the Society, and the leading academic forum for those interested in utilitarian studies click here

The Society hosted the John Stuart Mill Bicentennial Conference at University College London on 5-7 April 2006.
For photographs taken at the conference click here (click f11 for full page view)

For further details visit the ISUS web site

For an up-to-date bibliography of writings on Jeremy Bentham click here

This page last modified 2 April, 2009 by  Irena Nicoll