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Dr Andrea Sangiovanni received his BA and PhD from Harvard University. Before joining the Philosophy Department at King’s College London (in 2007), he was a Randall Dillard Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge (2005-2007).

• Moral, political, and legal philosophy
• Early modern and modern political philosophy

Dr Sangiovanni's main areas of research are in contemporary moral, legal, and political philosophy, though he also has interests in the history of early-modern and modern political thought. Current projects include: a book that defends a conception of international distributive justice, namely reciprocity-based internationalism; several essays that aim to  understand how the content, scope, and grounds of principles of justice can vary with institutions and practices; essays on justice and solidarity in the European Union; a defense of ‘Scottish’ constructivism against its Kantian rival; and the connection between cruelty and moral equality.

• ‘Solidarity in the European Union’ (2013) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 33: 2.
• ‘Solidarity in the European Union: Problems and Prospects’ (2012) in The Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law , eds. Julie Dickson and Pavlos Eleftheriadis (Oxford University Press), pp. 384-412
• ‘Can the Innate Right to Freedom Alone Ground a System of Public and Private Rights?’ (2012) European Journal of Philosophy 40/3: 60-9.
• ‘The Irrelevance of Coercion, Imposition, and Framing to Distributive Justice’ (2012) Philosophy & Public Affairs  40/2: 79-110
• ‘Global Justice and the Moral Arbitrariness of Birth’ (2011) The Monist 94/4: 571-583.
• Global Justice and the Morality of Coercion, Imposition, and Framing’ (2011) in Social Justice, Global Dynamics, eds. C. Schimmel, M. Ronzoni, A. Banai, (Routledge), pp. 26-46
• ‘Normative Political Theory: A Flight from Reality?’ (2008) in Political Thought and International Relations, ed. D. Bell (Oxford University Press,), pp. 219-40.
• ‘Justice and the Priority of Politics to Morality’, (2008) Journal of Political Philosophy 36/2: 137-64.
• ‘Global Justice, Reciprocity, and the State’, (2007) Philosophy & Public Affairs 35/1: 2-39.

Dr Sangiovanni currently teaches on the following courses

Undergraduate modules:

• 5AANB007 Political II: Theories of Justice (convenor)
• 6AANA046 Topics in Political Philosophy

• 7AAN2081 Political Philosophy (convenor)
• 7AAN2082 Political Philosophy II: Special Topics

Dr Sangiovanni also supervises BA and MA dissertations, and a number of MPhilStud and PhD research students.

Dr Sangiovanni currently supervises a number of MPhilStud and PhD research students, and welcomes enquiries from prospective students seeking supervision in topics connected to his research interests.

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