Newcastle University

Background

Thom Brooks is Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy at Newcastle University lecturing in Philosophy, Politics, and Law. He is an Academician in the Academy of Social Science, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Brooks has held visiting appointments at Oxford, St Andrews, and Uppsala. He has a visiting scholarship at St John's College, Oxford for summer 2012.

Brooks works broadly in the areas of ethics, law, and public polic. Current research interests include criminal justice, criminal law, citizenship and immigration, political justice, public law, and shaping public policy.

Brooks is the author of two recent books including Hegel’s Political Philosophy (2007, 2d ed 2012) and Punishment (2012). He has edited Rousseau and Law (2005), The Legacy of John Rawls (with Fabian Freyenhagen) (2005), Locke and Law (2007), The Global Justice Reader (2008), The Right to a Fair Trial (2009), Ethics and Moral Philosophy (2011), New Waves in Ethics (2011), Global Justice and International Affairs (2012), Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (2012), Justice and the Capabilities Approach (2012), Just War Theory (2012), Rawls and Law (2012), and a five volume collection on papers in Criminal Law and Philosophy forthcoming in 2013. His current book project is Rawls’ Political Liberalism co-edited with Martha C. Nussbaum. His research on criminal justice has featured in the RCUK Report on the top 100 Big Ideas for the Future. 

His curriculum vitae is found on his website: http://thombrooks.info  

Undergraduate Teaching

LAW3032: "Legal Theory" (upper division)
POL1022: "Introduction to Political Thought" (lower division)
POL2083: "Global Justice" (upper division)
POL2085: "John Rawls" (upper division)
POL3046: "Dissertation" (upper division)
POL3094: "Political Analysis and Strategy" (upper division)

Postgraduate Teaching

HSS8009: "Research in a Wider Context" (PhD)
POL8041: "Theories and Approaches in the Study of Politics" (MA)
POL8053: "Justice" (MA)

 

Research Interests

Ethics, Law, and Public Policy

Specific research interests include: British Politics, Capabilities Approach, Citizenship and Immigration, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, German Idealism (Kant, Fichte, Hegel), Global Justice, Human Rights, Political Strategy, Public Law (and International Public Law), and Public Policy

Projects

• Hegel's Speculative Politics: Toward a systematic reading of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
  Project Leader(s): Dr Thom Brooks

• Brooks T. Punishment and Moral Sentiments. Review of Metaphysics 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T. The British Citizenship Test: The Case for Reform. The Political Quarterly 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T, Nussbaum MC, ed. Rawls's Political Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T. Hegel's Political Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Right. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
• Brooks T. Punishment. London: Routledge, 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T. Reciprocity as Mutual Recognition. The Good Society 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T, ed. Deterrence. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. In Press.
• Brooks T, ed. Just War Theory. Leiden: Brill, 2013. In Press.
• Brooks T, ed. Juvenile Offending. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. In Press.
• Brooks T, ed. Retribution. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. In Press.
• Brooks T, ed. Sentencing. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. In Press.
• Brooks T, ed. Shame Punishment. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. In Press.
• Brooks T, White MD. Retribution and Capital Punishment. In: Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Practice. New York; Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2011, pp.chapter 12.
• Brooks T. Is Bradley a retributivist?. History of Political Thought 2011, 32(1), 83-95.
• Brooks T. The Problem with Polygamy. Philosophical Topics 2009, 32(2), 109-122.
• Brooks T, ed. The Global Justice Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
• Brooks T, ed. Current Controversies in Political Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2013. In Preparation.
• Brooks T. Global Justice: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. In Preparation.
• Brooks T, ed. Rawls and Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T. Hegel and the Unified Theory of Punishment. In: Brooks, T, ed. Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Ethics, Politics, and Law. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp.103-123. In Press.
• Brooks T. Natural Law Internalism. In: Brooks, T, ed. Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Ethics, Politics, and Law. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2012, pp.167-179.
• Brooks T. After Fukushima Daiichi: The Importance of Global Institutions for Nuclear Power Policy. Ethics, Place and Environment 2012, 15, 1-7. In Press.
• Brooks T. Autonomy, Freedom, and Punishment. Jurisprudence 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T. Bernard Williams, Republicanism, and the Liberalism of Fear. Montclair, New Jersey, USA: The Society for Moral Inquiry, 2011. Available at: http://www.theoreticalandappliedethics.com/#%21current-issue.
• Brooks T. Climate Change and Negative Duties. Politics 2012, 32(1), 1-9.
• Brooks T. Global Justice and Politics. In: Fred D'Agostino and Jerry Gaus, ed. Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2011. Submitted.
• Brooks T. Punishment: Political, Not Moral. New Criminal Law Review 2011, 14(3), 427-38.
• Brooks T. Respect for Nature: The Capabilities Approach. Ethics, Place and Environment 2011, 14(2), 143-146.
• Brooks T. Beyond Retributivism: The Unified Theory of Punishment. 2013. In Preparation.
• Brooks T. Rethinking Remedial Responsibilities. Ethics & Global Politics 2011, 4(3), 195-202.
• Brooks T. Justifying Terrorism. Public Affairs Quarterly 2010, 24(3), 189-195.
• Brooks T. Muirhead, Hetherington, and Mackenzie. In: Sweet, W, ed. The Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2009, pp.209-232.
• Brooks T, ed. Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012.
• Brooks T. Retributivist arguments against capital punishment. Journal of Social Philosophy 2004, 35(2), 188-197.
• Brooks T. Kant’s Theory of Punishment. Utilitas 2003, 15(2), 206-224.
• Brooks T. Political Philosophy: The Fundamentals. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T, ed. The Global Justice Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
• Brooks T, ed. The Right to Fair Trial (International Library of Essays on Rights). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.
• Brooks T. Locke and Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
• Brooks T, Freyenhagen F, ed. The Legacy of John Rawls. New York and London: Continuum, 2007.
• Brooks T. Rousseau and Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
• Brooks T, Freyenhagen F. The Legacy of John Rawls. New York and London: Continuum, 2005.
• Brooks T. T. H. Green’s Theory of Punishment. History of Political Thought 2003, 24(4), 685-701.
• Brooks T. A defence of jury nullification. Res Publica 2004, 10(4), 401-423.
• Brooks T. The right to trial by jury. Journal of Applied Philosophy 2004, 21(2), 197-212.
• Brooks T. Is Hegel a Retributivist?. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 2004, 49/50, 113-26.
• Brooks T. Editorial. Journal of Moral Philosophy 2006, 3(3), 263.
• Brooks T. Human Rights. In: Bevir M, ed. Encyclopedia of Governance. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007.
• Brooks T. Knowledge and power in Plato's political thought. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2006, 14(1), 51-77.
• Brooks T. Let a Thousand Nomoi Bloom? Four Problems with Robert Cover's Nomos and Narrative. In: Symposium: Robert M. Cover: Nomos and Narrative. 2006, Newcastle University: Issues in Legal Scholarship, Berkeley Electronic Press.
• Brooks T. On Ellis's Deterrence Theory of Punishment. Archiv fuer Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 2006, 92(4), 594-96.
• Brooks T. Plato, Hegel, and Democracy. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 2006, 53/54, 24-50.
• Brooks T. Ride the Lightning: Why Not Execute Killers?. In: Irwin W, ed. Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, pp. 127-134.
• Brooks T. The Reception of Hegel in Britain. In: Grayling AC; Pyle A; Goulder N, ed. The Encyclopedia of British Philosophy. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006, pp. 1424-1425.
• Brooks T. An intentionally new way of thinking about voting. Review Journal of Political Philosophy 2005, 3, 1-7.
• Brooks T. Better Luck Next Time: A comparative analysis of Socrates and Mahāyāna Buddhism on reincarnation. Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 2005, 10, 1-25.
• Brooks T. Editorial. Journal of Moral Philosophy 2005, 2(1), 7.
• Brooks T. Editorial. Journal of Moral Philosophy 2005, 2(3), 263.
• Brooks T. Hegel’s ambiguous contribution to legal theory. Res Publica 2005, 11(1), 85-94.
• Brooks T. Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart. In: Brown S, ed. Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005, pp. 389-91.
• Brooks T, Freyenhagen F. Introduction. In: Brooks T; Freyenhagen F, ed. The Legacy of John Rawls. New York and London: Continuum, 2005, pp. 1-21.
• Brooks T. Introduction. In: Brooks T, ed. Rousseau and Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, pp. xiii-xxv.
• Brooks T. Kantian punishment and retributivism: A reply to Clark (Michael Clark). Ratio 2005. London:Wiley-Blackwell Publishing,18 2 237-245.
• Brooks T. On Jury Nullification. Archiv fuer Rechts- und Sozialphilosphie 2005, 97, 169-75.
• Brooks T. Editorial. Journal of Moral Philosophy 2004, 1(3), 263.
• Brooks T. Editorial. Journal of Moral Philosophy 2004, 1(1), 7-8.
• Brooks T. Hegel’s Theory of International Politics: Reply to Jaeger. Review of International Studies 2004, 30(1), 149-152.
• Brooks T. In Search of Siva: Mahadeviyakka’s Virasaivism. Asian Philosophy 2004, 12(1), 21-34.
• Brooks T. Intentional new ways of thinking about elections. Filosoficky Casopis 2004, 52(3), 483-488.
• Brooks T. On the relation between law and morality. Associations: Journal for Legal and Social Theory 2004, 8(1), 135-39.
• Brooks T. Saving the greatest number. Logique et Analyse 2002, 45(177/178), 55-59.
• Brooks T. The future of the right to trial by jury. Philosophy Today 2003, 17(44), 2-4.
• Brooks T. Can We Justify Political Inequality?. Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 2003, 89(3), 426-438.
• Brooks T. Choosing correct punishments. Archives de Philosophie du Droit 2003, 47, 365-369.
• Brooks T. Does philosophy deserve a place at the Supreme Court?. Rutgers Law Record 2003, 27(1), 1-35.
• Brooks T. Making Hegel Plausible: The re-invention of Hegel’s political thought. Review Journal of Political Philosophy 2003, 1(1/2), i-vi.
• Brooks T. The Postgraduate's Guide to Getting Published. Post-graduate Network Newsletter 2003, 6(3), 4-12.
• Brooks T. A defence of sceptical authoritarianism. Politics 2002, 22(3), 152-162.
• Brooks T. Cosmopolitanism and distributing responsibilities. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 2002, 5(3), 92-97.
• Brooks T. Gilligan on deterrence and the death penalty: Has legal punishment failed us?. Ethics and Justice 2002, 3(2), 1-10.
• Brooks T. State formation and democratization in Turkey and Iran. Flinders Journal of History and Politics 2002, 22(2001-2002), 3-22.
• Brooks T. Two Views of the Lotus: Socrates and Mahāyāna Buddhism on Epistemic Virtue. Review Journal of Philosophy and Social Science: Special Issue 2002, 27, 33-59.
• Brooks T. Utilitarianism, Capital Punishment, and Innocent Persons: A Defence of Bentham. Review Journal of Philosophy and Social Science: Special Issue 2002, 27, 17-32.
• Brooks T. Corlett on Kant, Hegel, and Retribution. Philosophy 2001, 76(4), 561-580.
• Brooks T, ed. New Waves in Ethics. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.
• Brooks T. Between Natural Law and Legal Positivism: Dworkin and Hegel on Legal Theory. Georgia State University Law Review 2007, 23(3), 513-560.
• Brooks T. Defence of the jury is an open and shut case. Times Higher Education Supplement 2007, (2 March), 14.
• Brooks T. Editorial. Journal of Moral Philosophy 2007, 4(1), 7.
• Brooks T. Equality and democracy: The problem of minimal competency. Ethical Perspectives 2007, 14(1), 3-12.
• Brooks T. Miller et "Distributing Responsibilities" (in French). Archives de Philosophie du Droit 2009, 52, 381-86.
• Brooks T. No rubber stamp: Hegel's constitutional monarch ('Philosophy of Right'). History of Political Thought 2007, 28(1), 91-119.
• Brooks T. Punishing States That Cause Global Poverty. William Mitchell Law Review 2007, 33(2), 519-532.
• Brooks T. Rethinking Punishment. International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 2007, 1(1), 27-34.
• Brooks T. T. H. Green's Theory of Punishment. In: Morrow J, ed. T.H. Green. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
• Brooks T. The fall paradox. Philosophy & Theology 2007, 19(1-2), 3-5.
• Brooks T. Does Bevir’s The Logic of the History of Ideas improve our understanding of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right?. The European Legacy 2006, 11(7), 765-774.
• Brooks T. Thought and deed born of idealism. Times Higher Education Supplement 2006, (20 October), 28-29.
• Brooks T, ed. Political Philosophy. Meerut, India: Anu Books, 2003.
• Brooks T. Editorial. Journal of Moral Philosophy 2009, 6(1), 3.
• Brooks T. Shame on You, Shame on Me? Nussbaum on Shame Punishment. Journal of Applied Philosophy 2008, 25(4), 322-34.
• Brooks T. Us Against Us in the Land of Mahatma. Times Higher Education Supplement 2007, 21.
• Brooks T. Bringing the Republic to life. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 2008, 3(3), 211-221.
• Brooks T. Editorial. Journal of Moral Philosophy 2008, 5(1), forthcoming. In Press.
• Brooks T. Publishing Advice for Graduate Students. Social Science Research Network, 2008. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1085245.
• Brooks T. Punishment and British Idealism. In: Ryberg J; Corlett, A, ed. Punishment and Ethics: New Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp.16-32.
• Brooks T, ed. Ethics and Moral Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
• Brooks T, ed. Global Justice and International Affairs. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
• Brooks T. Between Statism and Cosmopolitanism: Hegel and the Possibility of Global Justice. In: Buchwalter A, ed. Hegel and Global Justice. Dordrecht: Springer, 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T. British Idealism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0015.
• Brooks T. Capabilities. In: LaFollette H, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T. Citizenship. In: Hugh LaFollette, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013. In Press.
• Brooks T. G. W. F. Hegel. In: Claeys G; Sargent LT, ed. Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T. Hegel's Political Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780195396577-0052.
• Brooks T. Punishment. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy 2010, forthcoming. In Press.
• Brooks T. The Fragility of an Overlapping Consensus. In: Brooks T; Nussbaum MC, ed. Rawls's Political Liberalism. Columbia University Press, 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T. What did the British Idealists ever do for us?. In: Brooks T, ed. New Waves in Ethics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp.28-47.
• Brooks T. Introduction. In: Brooks, T, ed. New Waves in Ethics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp.1-6.
• Brooks T. Punishment and Reincarnation: Does One Affect the Other?. Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 2009, forthcoming. In Press.
• Brooks T. A critique of pragmatism and deliberative democracy. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 2008, 45(1), 50-54.
• Brooks T. A two-tiered reparations theory: A reply to Wenar. Journal of Social Philosophy 2008, 39(4), 666-669.
• Brooks T. Bringing the republic to life: Teaching Plato's Republic to first-year students. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 2008,3 3 211-221.
• Brooks T. Is Plato's Political Philosophy Anti-Democratic?. In: Kofmel E, ed. Anti-Democratic Thought. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2008, pp. 17-33.
• Brooks T. Was Green a Utilitarian in Practice?. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 2008, 14(1), 5-15.
• Brooks T. Preserving Capabilities. American Journal of Bioethics 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T, ed. Justice and the Capabilities Approach. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. In Press.
• Brooks T. Why Save the Planet?. 2012. In Preparation.
• Brooks T. German Idealism and the Concept of Punishment. European Journal of Philosophy 2012, 20(1), 179-182.