People
Who we are
| Professor Massimo Renzo | Acting Centre Director |
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Massimo Renzo is Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Law. He joined The Dickson Poon School of Law in July 2015. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and before that, Lecturer at the York Law School. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the universities of Virginia and Arizona, the Centre for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute (Tulane University) and Osgoode Hall’s Nathanson Centre for Transnational Human Rights, Crime & Security.
He is an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War & Peace and the Honorary Secretary of the Society for Applied Philosophy. He is also one of the editors of the journal Criminal Law and Philosophy.
Professor Renzo is the recipient of the Gregory Kavka/UCI Prize in Political Philosophy and in 2020 he was awarded a two year Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.”
Email: massimo.renzo@kcl.ac.uk
Research profile: Professor Massimo Renzo
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| Dr Christoph Kletzer | Reader in Legal Philosophy and Director of Politics, Philosophy and Law programme |
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Dr Christoph Kletzer is a Reader in Legal Philosophy. He joined King's in 2007 having previously been a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge (2005-2007) and before that at the University of Durham (2004-2005). Dr Kletzer has also been the Director of Studies in Philosophy at Queens College in Cambridge and has been lecturing at the Philosophy Department of the University of Vienna for the last two years. He graduated with a MA in Law and a MA in Philosophy from the University of Vienna. After that he obtained a LLM and PhD from the University Cambridge.
Email: christoph.kletzer@kcl.ac.uk
Research profile: Dr Christoph Kletzer
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| Dr Jonathan Gingerich | |
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Dr Jonathan Gingerich is a Lecturer in Philosophy of Law. He joined King’s in 2019 having previously been a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr Gingerich completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, his JD at Harvard Law School, and his BA at Georgetown University. Dr Gingerich’s research expertise includes legal and political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, with additional research interests in feminist theory, 19th and 20th Century Continental philosophy, and applied ethics. One of his current projects is about spontaneous freedom—the freedom of unscripted activity that “free spirits” enjoy—and the political and legal significance of this sort of freedom. He has also developed an interest in the relationship between culture, equality, and politics.
Email: jonathan.gingerich@kcl.ac.uk
Research profile: Dr Jonathan Gingerich
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Advisory Board
Members of the Advisory board (for a 5 year period beginning Jan 1 2015) are:
Professor Judge James Crawford
Cambridge University
Professor Antony Duff
University of Stirling, UK
Baroness Simone Finn
House of Lords
Professor Rainer Forst
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Professor Charles Fried
Harvard University, USA Hon. Michael Kirby
Former Justice of the High Court of Australia
Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India
Professor Martha Nussbaum
University of Chicago, USA
Baroness Onora O'Neill
University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Cheryl Saunders
University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Amartya Sen
Harvard University, USA
Professor Fred Schauer
University of Virginia, USA
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