Adrian is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He was previously The Queen's Scholar at the Middle Temple, where Adrian was called to the Bar of England and Wales, and Departmental Lecturer in the Philosophy of Social Science at the University of Oxford, teaching at Lincoln College and the Blavatnik School of Government. Adrian studied for his DPhil in Political Theory at New College, University of Oxford, supported by a DPIR Doctoral Scholarship.
Adrian's research addresses broad questions of legitimacy, legality, coercion, and authority. He is working on a book project tentatively entitled 'Law's Political Realism'. Besides his academic work, he has been active with the United Nations Division of Palestinian Rights, the Al-Haq Center for Applied International Law in Ramallah, Palestine, and the Balfour Peace Advocacy Project in London as an Associate Fellow.
His public writing has appeared in The Point, Aeon, Psychology Today, Mondoweiss, Times Higher Education, and the Oxford Review of Books, among other outlets.
Publications
A full and updated list of publications can be found on Adrian's website.
