PhD Title

Global Justice from Outside-the-Box

Education/Qualifications

2013-present

PhD candidate in Political Theory, University of Edinburgh (Supervisors: Prof Tim Hayward, Dr Elizabeth Cripps, and Dr Kieran Oberman)

2016-2017

Visiting Doctoral Student at the Centre for the Study of Social Justice, University of Oxford (Mentor: Dr Daniel Butt)

Research Associate at Balliol College MCR, Oxford (Mentor: Dr Daniel Butt)

2010-2011

MSc in International Political Theory, with Distinction, University of Edinburgh

2003-2008

BA in English Literature, with Roggen Prize for Graduation Thesis, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan)

PhD Thesis

Title: Global Justice from Outside-the-Box

We live in a severely unequal world.  My thesis argues that there is a moral obligation on the global advantaged to put right the situation for the global disadvantaged not only because they have the ability to do so without incurring significant cost but also because they are complicit in the systemic mechanism that is likely to harm the disadvantaged.  It also argues that the advantaged can discharge this obligation partly by bringing about a radical institutional shift towards market socialism (accompanied by an appropriate ethos).  My project is outside-the-box because my arguments draw on both the accounts of human values liberals provide and the empirical explanations critical theorists offer.  

Publications

With Professor Tim Hayward (2016), 'Had we but world enough, and time: integrating the dimensions of global justice', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 19(4): 383-99.