research
My research includes discussion of theoretical issues--such as the relationship between freedom and equality and the best way to understand deontological ethics--as well as as attempts to solve political controversies--such as amnesties for undocumented migrants, racial profiling, and legal constraints on sex-stereotyping. Here is a longer overview.
Here, for personal use, are links to uncorrected late drafts of some of my papers. Please cite the published versions.
• “Responsibility and Self-Defense: Can We Have It All?” Forthcoming in Res Publica.
• “Sex-Stereotyping,” Forthcoming in The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism.
• 'Do You Have to Let it Linger' in Symposium on Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration? (by Gillian Brock and Michael Blake), South African Journal of Philosophy.
• ‘“Where Are You Really From?” Ethnic and Linguistic Immigrant Selection Policies in Liberal States’ in Ann Cudd and Win-Chiat Lee eds. Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age (New York: Springer, 2016), pp. 191-202.
• “Freedom, Sex-Roles, and Anti-Discrimination Law,” Law and Philosophy Vol. 34, No. 5 (2015), pp. 485-517.
Awarded Honorable Mention for the American Philosophical Association’s 2017 Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy.
• “Is Anything Just Plain Good?” Philosophical Studies Vol. 172, No. 6 (2015), pp. 1485-1508 (with Mahrad Almotahari).
• “Immigration: The Case for Legalization,” Social Theory and Practice Vol. 40, No. 4 (2014), pp. 609-630.
• “Doing, Allowing, and the State,” Law and Philosophy Vol. 33, No. 2 (2014), pp. 235-264.
• “Are Justified Aggressors a Threat to the Rights Theory of Self-Defense?” in Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang (eds.) How We Fight (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 87-103.
Awarded a CU Boulder Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award
• “Contractualism, Politics, and Morality,” Acta Analytica Vol. 28, No. 4 (2013), pp. 495-508.
• “Democracy, Paternalism, and Campaign Finance,” Public Affairs Quarterly Vol. 27, No. 2 (2013), pp. 157-177.
• “Immigration and Freedom of Movement,” Ethics and Global
Politics Vol. 6, No. 1 (2013), pp. 25–37.
• “Deontology and Natural Hazards,” in Paolo Gardoni, Colleen Murphy and Arden Rowell (eds.) Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards (New York: Springer, 2016) [other contributors include Daniel Farber, Donald Wuebbels, and Douglas MacLean], pp. 137-153.
• Review Essay on Helen Frowe’s Defensive Killing and Seth Lazar’s Sparing Civilians, In Preparation for
Criminal Law and Philosophy [about 7-8,000 words].
Here, for personal use, are links to uncorrected late drafts of some of my papers. Please cite the published versions.
• “Responsibility and Self-Defense: Can We Have It All?” Forthcoming in Res Publica.
• “Sex-Stereotyping,” Forthcoming in The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism.
• 'Do You Have to Let it Linger' in Symposium on Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration? (by Gillian Brock and Michael Blake), South African Journal of Philosophy.
• ‘“Where Are You Really From?” Ethnic and Linguistic Immigrant Selection Policies in Liberal States’ in Ann Cudd and Win-Chiat Lee eds. Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age (New York: Springer, 2016), pp. 191-202.
• “Freedom, Sex-Roles, and Anti-Discrimination Law,” Law and Philosophy Vol. 34, No. 5 (2015), pp. 485-517.
Awarded Honorable Mention for the American Philosophical Association’s 2017 Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy.
• “Is Anything Just Plain Good?” Philosophical Studies Vol. 172, No. 6 (2015), pp. 1485-1508 (with Mahrad Almotahari).
• “Immigration: The Case for Legalization,” Social Theory and Practice Vol. 40, No. 4 (2014), pp. 609-630.
• “Doing, Allowing, and the State,” Law and Philosophy Vol. 33, No. 2 (2014), pp. 235-264.
• “Are Justified Aggressors a Threat to the Rights Theory of Self-Defense?” in Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang (eds.) How We Fight (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 87-103.
Awarded a CU Boulder Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award
• “Contractualism, Politics, and Morality,” Acta Analytica Vol. 28, No. 4 (2013), pp. 495-508.
• “Democracy, Paternalism, and Campaign Finance,” Public Affairs Quarterly Vol. 27, No. 2 (2013), pp. 157-177.
• “Immigration and Freedom of Movement,” Ethics and Global
Politics Vol. 6, No. 1 (2013), pp. 25–37.
• “Deontology and Natural Hazards,” in Paolo Gardoni, Colleen Murphy and Arden Rowell (eds.) Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards (New York: Springer, 2016) [other contributors include Daniel Farber, Donald Wuebbels, and Douglas MacLean], pp. 137-153.
• Review Essay on Helen Frowe’s Defensive Killing and Seth Lazar’s Sparing Civilians, In Preparation for
Criminal Law and Philosophy [about 7-8,000 words].
