Section: Staff Profiles

Cecile Fabre

Name
Professor Cecile Fabre
Title
Professor of Political Theory
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
4.20 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44(0)131 650 4264
E-Mail
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/fabre_c

Cécile Fabre joined the Politics Department at Edinburgh in April 2007, having previously taught at the London School of Economics.

Research Interests

She works in contemporary, normative political theory. Her teaching and research interests include theories of rights, theories of justice, bioethics and the ethics of war.

Office Hours:

Wednesday 09:00-10:45

Qualifications

  • BA in History (La Sorbonne)
  • MA in Political Theory (York)
  • D.Phil in Politics (Oxford)

Recent Posts

Cécile Fabre joined the Politics Department at Edinburgh in April 2007, having previously taught at the London School of Economics.

Research Interests

She works in contemporary, normative political theory. Her teaching and research interests include theories of rights, theories of justice, bioethics and the ethics of war.

Publications

Personal webpage with full list of publications and links to papers: www.cecilefabre.com/Publications.htm

Books

Social Rights Under the Constitution: Government and the Decent Life (Oxford University Press, January 2000.). http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198296751

Whose Body is it Anyway? Justice and the Integrity of the Person (Oxford University Press, 2006). http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199532292

Justice in a Changing World (Polity Press, 2007). http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745639697

Cosmopolitan War (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Selected articles and book chapters

'Justice, Fairness, and World Ownership', Law and Philosophy 21 (2002): 249-273

"Mandatory Rescue Killings", Journal of Political Philosophy 15 (2007): 363-84

“Global Distributive Justice: An Egalitarian Perspective”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Special Issue 31 (2007).

 'Posthumous Rights', in C. Grant and M. Kramer (eds.) The Legacy of H.L.A.Hart (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.)

'Preconception Rights', in S. de Wijze (ed.) The Anatomy Of Justice: Themes From The Political Philosophy Of Hillel Steiner (London: Routledge, forthcoming – under contract - 2009.)

 ‘Permissible Rescue Killings’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 (2009): 149-64.

 “War and Subsistence”, in T. Pogge (ed) Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right, vol 2, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008).

'In Defence of Mercenarism'  British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming 2010.

'Guns, Food, and Liability to Attack in War', Ethics, 120 (2009): 36-63. The article is currently the focus of a blog discussion on the Philosophy site. See http://peasoup.typepad.com

 

Professor Fabre is currently Adviser to Research Students in the department of Politics and IR. She also convenes the research group in political theory.

 

This page was published on 27 January 2010


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