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Picture: Ingrid Robeyns (summer 2008)

I am an Associate Professor in Legal Theory at the Law Department of the University of Amsterdam.

My research interests lies in the fields of political and legal philosophy and public policy, especially contemporary liberal theories of justice and their application in in plural and multicultural societies, and issues of global justice.

I am the co-editor of a book on Cosmopolitanism in Context: Perspectives from International Law and political Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
I work on a book manuscript entiteld Luck-Egalitarian Multiculturalism: A Nonideal Elaboration of the Egalitarian Ideal.
In 2008 and 2009 I organized the annual meeting of the Dutch-Flemish Political Science Association (het politicologenetmaal).
In 2008 I organized the bi-annual meeting of the Dutch Society of Legal Philosophy, 18-19 April 2008.

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Recent papers:

Cosmopolitanism in Context: Perspectives from International Law and political Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Bookproject, co-edited with Wouter Werner. Read Introductionary chapter (updated August 2009)

“Cosmopolitanism in Context” in Roland Pierik & Wouter Werner (Eds.) Cosmopolitanism in Context: Perspectives from International Law and political Theory. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2010, co-authored with Wouter Werner).

“Can Cosmopolitanism Survive Institutionalization?” in Roland Pierik & Wouter Werner (Eds.) Cosmopolitanism in Context: Perspectives from International Law and political Theory. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2010, co-authored with Wouter Werner).

"Collective Responsibility and National Responsibility”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, (2008 vol. 11, no. 4, 465-483).

To be reprinted in H. De Schutter & R. Tinnevelt (eds.), Do co-nationals have priority over other human beings? Essays on David Miller, Routledge: London and New York, forthcoming.

"Resources versus Capabilities: Social Endowments in Egalitarian Theory", Political Studies (2007, Vol. 55 No. 1, 133-152, co-authored with Ingrid Robeyns).

"Reparations for Luck Egalitarians", The Journal of Social Philosophy (2006, Vol. 37 No. 3, 423–440).

"Western Policies on Child Labor Abroad", Ethics & International Affairs (2006, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 193-218, co-authored with Mijke Houwerzijl).

"Should western governments allow their pharmaceutical corporations to relocate medicine tests to resource-poor countries?"

In Dutch: “Het egalitarisme tussen gelijk burgerschap en gelijke omstandigheden,” Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, (2007, Vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 16-33).

“Het testen van medicijnen door westerse bedrijven in ontwikkelingslanden: Het onderscheid tussen moreel wenselijke en onaanvaardbare vormen” Ethiek & Maatschappij (2006: vol. 9 no. 3, pp. 42-60).

"The Necessity of Categories and the Inevitability of Separation", Journal for Legal Philosophy and Jurisprudence (R&R), (2006 Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 252-263).

In Dutch: "Westers beleid tegen kinderarbeid: Een politiek-theoretische beschouwing," Beleid en Maatschappij (2005: Vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 128-138).

"Cosmopolitism, Global Justice and International Law," The Leiden Journal of International Law, (2005: vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 679-684, co-authored with Wouter Werner).

Child Labor and Global Inequality: Responsibilities and Policies” in Christine M. Koggel (Ed.) Moral Issues in Global Perspective (2nd edition), Volume I: Moral and Political Theory. Peterborough & New York: Broadview Press, (2005): pp. 253-264.

"Conceptualizing Cultural Groups and Cultural Difference: The Social Mechanism-Approach," Ethnicities (2004: vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 523-544).

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(updated August 2009).