Paul Chaisty is Professor of Russian and East European Politics. He joined the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) in 2005, following a three-year appointment in Politics at Pembroke College, Oxford. His research interests cover Area identities and politics in post-communist societies; political institutions and political parties in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe; political attitudes in Russia and Ukraine. He was the Head of OSGA from 2022-2025.

Tena Prelec (PhD, Sussex University, School of Law, Politics and Sociology) is a Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford. Her research focuses, broadly, on issues of good governance and anti-corruption, with a specific focus on how transnational kleptocracy is enabled by the global financial architecture.

I am the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. Previously I was an associate professor of philosophy at St John’s College, Oxford, and before that a lecturer in philosophy at University College London.

I completed my BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford, and before that I did a BA at Yale. I work on topics in political philosophy, epistemology, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy.

I joined Oxford in September 2012 from Warwick where I was Associate Professor of Political Theory. Before that I was Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Reading and at Manchester and a Barbara McCoy Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. I studied PPE at New College and completed my MPhil and DPhil at Nuffield College. I grew up in Warsaw.

Professional Activities

Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Subject co-Editor (Social and Political Philosophy)

Philosophy and Public Affairs Associate Editor

Research

Theories of distributive and rectificatory justice, with particular reference to historical injustice and international politics; colonialism; egalitarianism; the ethics of cultural property; environmental ethics; judicial politics and the philosophy of law. View more details on Daniel's personal web page.

Research interests

Political Theory, International ethics and global Justice, Norms, legitimacy and justification, Rights, Justice, and Equality, International law

Cécile Laborde is the Nuffield Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

She has published extensively on republicanism, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and citizenship and global justice.

I am a Historian and Political Scientist with a focus on the Middle East and Global Islam. I am currently a Marie Curie Global Fellow at Stanford University and Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, leading a project on Sunni-Shii Relations in the Middle East.