During his year as a Townsend Fellow, Christopher Kutz, Assistant Professor in Jurisprudence and Social Policy program in the Boalt Hall School of Law, will work on a project entitled Collective Agency and the Possibility of Self-Government. This project, Professor Kutz points out, critically examines the individualistic accounts of moral agency generally adopted in contemporary liberal theory in the light of the contrasting and familiar collective orientation of our routine political and social practices. What Professor Kutz identifies as his “philosophical task” is to render perspicuous the normative relations between the “we” and the “I,” and to see how collective institutions can legitimate themselves to the individuals who participate in them. Awarded the Ph.D. in Philosophy from Berkeley in 1996 and the J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997, Professor Kutz returned to Berkeley to teach in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program in 1998.