Section: Research Student Profiles

Arabella Millett Fisher

Name
Arabella Millett Fisher
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
CMB 15A George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
E-Mail
Research Interests
Rights,self-ownership,Left-libertarianism
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/arabella_millett
Arabella Millett Fisher

Qualifications

  • PhD Politics, University of Edinburgh
  • MSc (by Research) Political Theory, University of Edinburgh
  • MA (Hons) Philosophy and Politics, University of Edinburgh

Working Title

A Left-Libertarian Theory of Rights

Research Interests

I am working on human rights, and negative and positive rights in particular. I am interested in the distinction between doing and allowing harm and the implications this has for human rights, and also the significance of intentions. I am currently looking at self-ownership and left-libertarianism. I am also concerned with distributive justice, and particularly the argument that we have a negative human right to a share of natural resources. Other interests of mine include animal rights, environmental ethics, bioethics and social contract theory.

Supervisors

Professor Tim Hayward

Dr Lynn Dobson

Awards

AHRC Doctoral Award

Publications/Conference Papers

The Compatibility of Libertarian Property Rights and Global Redistributive Taxation, Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference, Warwick, July 2011

'Negative Duties and the Requirements of Justice' Res Publica 16 (4): 425-430 (2010)

A Libertarian Defence of Animal Rights, Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference, Edinburgh, July 2009

Left-Libertarianism and Land Rent as Taxation, Brave New World Conference, Manchester, July 2008

The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing, Brave New World Conference, Manchester, June 2007

Teaching Experience

Over the past eight years I have tutored on Social and Political Theory, Modern Political Theory, Global Justice and Citizenship, Introduction to Philosophy, and Moral and Political Philosophy. For two years I also delivered a course of my own design for the Open Studies programme (Office for Lifelong Learning) entitled Rights and Justice, and I also work part-time as an Associate Lecturer for the Open University, teaching the course Living Political Ideas.

Research Group Memberships

Political Theory Research Group

 

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