vCardDr Thom Brooks

Dr Thom Brooks
Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy

Research Interests

Areas of Specialization: Political and Legal Philosophy

Areas of Competence: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ethics

Current Work

I am originally from New Haven and I work in the area of political and legal philosophy. I am the founding editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy (www.brill.nl/jmp). My current research projects include the following:

• completing a new monograph, Punishment, appearing in 2010.

• editing a new book with Martha Nussbaum, entitled Rawls's Political Liberalism, scheduled to appear in 2011.

• completing a new monograph, Global Justice, due to appear in 2010.

• completing an edited book with new essays on Hegel's Philosophy of Right to be published in 2010.

• completing an edited book with new essays by top new philosophers working in the area of ethics, entitled New Waves in Ethics.

• writing a new monogragh on political philosophy for Blackwell's 'Fundamentals in Philosophy' series due to appear in 2011.

• in addition, I am working on a variety of papers on the topics of (a) the capabilities approach, (b) climate change and global justice, (c) Hegel's philosophy and British Idealism, (d) human rights, and (e) the nationalism versus cosmopolitan debate.

• I am also a regular contributor writer and reviewer for the Times Higher Education.

Selected Publications

More Publications

Projects

Postgraduate Supervision

I warmly encourage graduate students to contact me if interested in any of the following areas of interst:

• Ancient Greek Philosophy
• British Idealism
• Democratic Theory
• Ethics and Moral Philosophy
• German Idealism (including Kant)
• Global Justice and Human Rights
• Indian Philosophy
• Legal Philosophy
• Political Philosophy
• Punishment

Esteem Indicators

• Founding editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy (www.brill.nl/jmp).

• Co-editor (with Simon Kirchin) of Continuum Ethics book series.

• Editor of the Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights book series with Edinburgh University Press.

• Editor of the Textbooks in Global Justice and Human Rights book series with Edinburgh University Press.

• Co-chair (with Carol Gould) of the Association of Philosophy Journal Editors, 2009-present.

• Editorial Board member, Public Affairs Quarterly.

• Elected member, American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Philosophy of Law, 2007-present. I will chair the committee from 2009.

• Secretary, Executive Board, Association for Political Thought, 2008-present.

• Elected Council Member, the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 2006-present and conference co-organizer since 2004.

• Elected member, Executive Board, Political Studies Association (UK), 2006-present. I sit on the PSA’s Education Committee and will Chair the Specialist Group Committee from 2009. I was a judge for the W. J. M. MacKenzie prize for the best book published in 2006.

• Co-convener (with Simon Caney) of the ‘Global Justice and Human Rights’ PSA specialist group, 2007-present.

• Referee for nearly 30 academic journals and 10 book publishers

• Referee for both the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and Economic and Social Research Council (UK)

• External Examiner, Philosophy and Ethics, Bath Spa University, 2007-present

Funding

I have received funding from a variety of sources, including an Arts and Humanities Research Fund Award ('Idealism and Punishment'); Arts and Humanities Research Leave Scheme ('Hegel’s Speculative Politics: Towards a Systematic Reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right'); Association for Social and Legal Philosophy workshop grant; British Academy conference grant; the European Union; the Mind Association conference grant; Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at the University of Newcastle; and the Society for Applied Philosophy workshop grant (see http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/t.brooks/).

Roles and Responsibilities

• Co-director, Newcastle Ethics, Legal, and Political Philosophy Research Group, 2004-present

• Undergraduate Director, Politics, 2008-present

• Degree Programme Director, Single Honours Politics, 2008-present

• Careers Advisor (Politics), 2008-present

• Alternate Director, Postgraduate Research

• Member, Faculty International Strategy Committee, 2006

• Internationalisation Working Group, 2008

Qualifications

• B.A., William Paterson University, 1997, Music and Political Science (Pi Sigma Alpha)

• Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Newcastle, 2006.

• M.A., Arizona State University, 1999, Political Science

• M.A., University College Dublin, 2000, Philosophy (1st class honours)

• Ph.D., University of Sheffield, 2004, Philosophy

Previous Positions

• Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy, University of Newcastle, 2007-present

• Fellow, Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews, 2004-2005

• Lecturer in Political Thought, University of Newcastle, 2004-2007

Memberships

I am a member of the following organizations:
• American Philosophical Association
• Aristotelian Society
• Association for Political Thought
• Association of Philosophy Journal Editors
• Authors' Licensing & Collecting Service
• British Idealism PSA specialist group
• British Philosophical Association
• The Collingwood and British Idealism Centre
• Global Justice and Human Rights PSA specialist group
• Hegel Society of America
• Hegel Society of Great Britain
• Newcastle Human Rights Research Group
• Newcastle Ethics, Legal, and Political Philosophy Research Group
• North American Fichte Society
• Northern Political Theory Association
• Political Studies Association
• UK Legal Theory Group

Honours and Awards

• European Union Grant for Young Researchers (SEK3500), 2003

• Hegel Society of Great Britain’s Graduate Essay Prize, 2003.

• UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Leave Grant ('Hegel's Speculative Politics: Towards a Systematic Reading of Hegel's Philosophy of Right') (£20,586), 2007

• Elected Academician in the Academy of Social Sciences, 2009

Undergraduate Teaching

LAW3032: "Legal Theory" (upper division)
POL1022: "Introduction to Political Theory" (lower division)
POL129: "The Ancient World and the Middle Ages" (lower division)
POL2083: "Global Justice" (upper division)
POL3049: "Kant and Hegel" (upper division)
POL3086: "Philosophy and Public Affairs" (upper division)
POL374: "Punishment" (upper division)

Postgraduate Teaching

HSS8009: "Research in a Wider Context" (Ph.D.)