Assistant professor of philosophy and, by courtesy, of law at Stanford. "Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation" out now from Harvard University Press: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067423853https://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3mi2op623ok2gThe 2026 Legal Philosophy Workshop program is now available. We hope you can join us in Chicago @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social! @hadassanoorda.bsky.social @raff-donelson.bsky.social @gowder.io @almadiamond.bsky.social @sgaloob.bsky.social @ksifferd.bsky.social @yaromeir.bsky.social https://sites.google.com/site/legalphilosophyworkshop/2026-program27 Mar 2026 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2op623ok2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3mbjnnrzm522oA reminder to submit your abstracts or volunteer to comment at the 2026 Legal Philosophy Workshop. The deadline is January 9, 2026. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jan 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbjnnrzm522ohttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3m3up2qkz3k25#CFP: 13th Annual Legal Philosophy Workshop (LPW). 📍Hosted @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social 🗓️ Submit an abstract or volunteer to comment by January 9, 2026 🗣️Please, share widely! https://sites.google.com/site/legalphilosophyworkshop/cfa-for-2026-lpw?authuser=023 Oct 2025 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3up2qkz3k25https://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3lcgopa5zlc2hJoin our PEA Soup Blog discussion of @lowrypressly.bsky.social's excellent new article in @ethicsjournal.bsky.social, "The Right to Be Forgotten and the Value of an Open Future": https://peasoupblog.com/2024/12/the-right-to-be-forgotten-and-the-value-of-an-open-future-with-lowry-pressly-and-wendy-salkin/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Dec 2024 22:27 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcgopa5zlc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3l2odif2m4s2xThrilled to discuss Speaking for Others with the inimitable @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social @greenapplebooks.bsky.social 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset) in San Francisco on Wednesday, September 25 at 7:00 pm! Join our conversation in person or online.27 Aug 2024 04:06 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3l2odif2m4s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3l2odif2m4s2xThrilled to discuss Speaking for Others with the inimitable @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social @greenapplebooks.bsky.social 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset) in San Francisco on Wednesday, September 25 at 7:00 pm! Join our conversation in person or online.27 Aug 2024 04:06 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3l2odif2m4s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3kxqeqwfqsz2fI will be on @philtalkradio.bsky.social on KALW 91.7 FM tomorrow (Sunday 7/21) at 11 am Pacific talking about speaking for others with co-hosts Josh Landy and Ray Briggs. Tune in if you can! [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jul 2024 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3kxqeqwfqsz2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3kxdo7r5tic2qIn this episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social, I spoke with host Jim Baxter about informal political representatives, who speak or act for us although we have not elected them to do so. For more on this topic, check out my new book, Speaking for Others: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674238534 [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jul 2024 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3kxdo7r5tic2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3kwunj5a4bx2aToday is the publication day for Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation! Thank you to everyone who has supported this project over the years—family, advisors, mentors, colleagues, students, editors, friends. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067423853409 Jul 2024 18:40 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3kwunj5a4bx2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3kwb2hnaqqu2rI had a wonderful time discussing speaking for others today with @philtalkradio.bsky.social co-hosts Josh Landy and Ray Briggs! Thanks also to Devon Strolovitch, Laura Maguire, and KALW! "Speaking for Others" will be released by Harvard University Press on July 9: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674238534 [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2024 23:39 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3kwb2hnaqqu2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3kvrbv6n7jl22My book, Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation, will be released in two weeks. You can read a bit of it here, and pre-order it too! https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067423853425 Jun 2024 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3kvrbv6n7jl22https://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3kto7xsc6qh2kI am honored and delighted to have received a 2024 Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Teaching Excellence Award. I am deeply grateful to all my students, who make teaching such a joy. pbknca.com/Teaching https://humsci.stanford.edu/news-post/wendy-salkin-honored-phi-beta-kappa-teaching-excellence-award30 May 2024 01:06 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3kto7xsc6qh2khttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3kr6zbtvjqh2tThe Legal Philosophy Workshop is taking place on June 13 and 14, 2024 at the University of Michigan. Program, registration, and travel details are available here: https://sites.google.com/site/legalphilosophyworkshop/2024-program28 Apr 2024 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3kr6zbtvjqh2thttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3klf2r6w6z22eI am looking forward to discussing a chapter from my book (Speaking for Others) on descriptive and nondescriptive informal political representation today at the IDEA research seminar series. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics/events/event/3038/informal-political-representation14 Feb 2024 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3klf2r6w6z22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3kj4umjxszv25My paper "You Say I Want a Revolution," on W. E. B. Du Bois's John Brown, is out now in The Monist's Du Bois and Democracy issue, alongside articles by Chike Jeffers, Elvira Basevich, Robert Gooding-Williams, Inés Valdez, Kimberly Ann Harris, and Liam Kofi Bright. wendysalkin.com/papers.html16 Jan 2024 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3kj4umjxszv25https://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3kg26ojjzxk2eThanks to @mariannazhang.bsky.social for writing this article about my project, "Writers Are Not Congressmen"! And thanks to the Clayman Institute and @adriandaub.bsky.social for including me in this year's Faculty Fellows group, an exciting research environment. https://gender.stanford.edu/news/fundamental-moral-challenge-faced-public-experts08 Dec 2023 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3kg26ojjzxk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/wendysalkin.bsky.social/post/3kfj2opfoip2kI've just returned the copyedited manuscript of my first book, Speaking for Others, to Harvard University Press. Preorder it (click "Buy elsewhere") for your loved ones just in time for the holidays! Preorders make a huge difference, so please do it if you can! https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067423853401 Dec 2023 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:5zoaebptwqqzpymd7o57ffsk/app.bsky.feed.post/3kfj2opfoip2k