Cécile Laborde is a professor of
political theory
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at the
University of Oxford
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. Since 2017, she has held the Nuffield Chair of Political Theory and in 2013 she was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy
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. Her research focusses on
republicanism
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, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and
global justice
Global justice is an issue in political philosophy arising from the concern about unfairness. It is sometimes understood as a form of internationalism.
History
Henrik Syse claims that global ethics and international justice in western tradit ...
. Her most recent book, ''Liberalism's Religion'', was published by Harvard University Press in 2017.
Biography
Laborde was born in France. From 1989 to 1992, she studied at
Sciences Po Bordeaux
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. She graduated with a degree in political science. She then moved to England to study European politics at the
University of Hull
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, graduating with an MA in 1993, before studying at the University of Oxford as a
Rhodes scholar
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, where she obtained a DPhil in politics in 1997. She was a member of
St. Antony's College
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. The title of her DPhil thesis was "States, Groups, and Individuals. Pluralism in British and French Political Thought".
She has held positions at University of Exeter, King's College London, and
University College London
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(UCL), including as Professor of Political Theory in the School of Public Policy at UCL from 2009 to 2017.
From 2010 to 2011, she was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. From 2012 to 2016, she was the principal investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) project entitled "Is religion special? Secularism and religion in contemporary legal and political theory". Since 2017, she has held the Nuffield Chair in Political Theory at the University of Oxford.
Honours, awards and distinctions
Laborde was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy
Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are:
# Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom
# C ...
in 2013.
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Interview with the Rhodes ProjectLaborde's lecture on Religion and the Public Sphere
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Political philosophers
French political philosophers
Academics of University College London
Fellows of the British Academy
Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford
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Living people