CHANDRAN KUKATHAS

Chandran Kukathas
Chair in Political Theory
Government Department
London School of Economics and Political Science
Email: C.Kukathas [at] lse.ac.uk

Biography

Chandran Kukathas completed his BA in History and Political Science at the Australian National University and his MA in Politics at the University of New South Wales before going on to a DPhil in Politics at Oxford University. He has taught at the Royal Military College, Canberra; Oxford; the Australian National University; the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy; and the University of Utah, where he held the Neal Maxwell Chair in Political Theory in the Department of Political Science.

Research interests and areas of supervision

Contemporary liberal political thought
Multiculturalism, nationalism, and the politics of diversity
Concepts in political theory
Libertarianism
Selected political thinkers, including Bayle, Hume, Rawls, Hayek, Oakeshott

Selected Recent Publications
2008 ‘Cultural Privacy’ The Monist (forthcoming)
2006 ‘The Mirage of Global Justice’, Social Philosophy and Policy23:1
2006 ‘Moral Universalism and Cultural Difference’, Oxford Handbook of Political Theory
2006 ‘Who? Whom’ Reparations and the Problem of Agency’, Journal of Social Philosophy 37:3
2005 Pierre Bayle, Philosophical Commentary on the Words of Jesus Christ: Compel Them to Come In, co-edited with John Kilcullen, Liberty Fund
2004 Handbook of Political Theory, co-edited with Gerald F. Gaus, Sage
2003 The Liberal Archipelago, OxfordEdited Books

Selected current research projects
Genocide and group rights
Immigration and refugee policy
Multiculturalism