David Estlund is the Lombardo Family

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, where he has taught since 1991. He works primarily in

political philosophy Political philosophy studies the theoretical and conceptual foundations of politics. It examines the nature, scope, and Political legitimacy, legitimacy of political institutions, such as State (polity), states. This field investigates different ...

Education and career

Estlund earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the

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, and taught briefly at the

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, before moving to Brown. He has spent fellowship years at the Program in Ethics at

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and at

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. His research interests center on

liberalism Liberalism is a Political philosophy, political and moral philosophy based on the Individual rights, rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law. ...

justice In its broadest sense, justice is the idea that individuals should be treated fairly. According to the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', the most plausible candidate for a core definition comes from the ''Institutes (Justinian), Inst ...

, and especially

democracy Democracy (from , ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitiv ...

. He sits on the editorial board of the academic journal '' Representation''. He is editor of the collections ''Democracy'' (Blackwell, 2002) and ''The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy'' (Oxford University Press, 2012), and the author of ''Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework'' (Princeton University Press, 2008) and ''Utopophobia. On The Limits (If Any) Of Political Philosophy'', (Princeton University Press, 2019).

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External links

David Estlund's Brown University Research Page
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