1 CURRICULUM VITAE Personal details Name: Professor Cécile FABRE (BA (La Sorbonne), MA (York), D.Phil (Oxon), FBA) Position (since September 1 2010) : Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Lincoln College Oxford Nationality: French Date of birth: 2/2/71 (Paris, France) Gender Female Address: Lincoln College, Oxford, OX1 3DR Telephone (office): 01865 279777 (home): 01865 790432 (mobile)+ 44 (0) 7922655280 Email address: cecile.fabre@lincoln.ox.ac.uk Personal website (with linked publications): http://users.ox.ac.uk/~linc2817/ Career history April 2007- August 2010: Chair of Political Theory, University of Edinburgh, Department of Politics and IR. October 2005-March 2007 Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science. September 2000-September 2005: Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science. October 1998-August 2000: Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford. January 1998- June 2000: Lecturer in Political Theory, Worcester College, Oxford. Academic record 1993-1997 D. Phil in Politics, University of Oxford. (Supervised by G.A.Cohen.) 1992-1993 MA in Political Philosophy, University of York. 1989-1992 BA degree in History (with minors in Philosophy and Literature), University of La Sorbonne. Publications I. BOOKS 1. Social Rights Under the Constitution: Government and the Decent Life (Oxford University Press, January 2000.) (Reviewed in Political Quarterly, Political Studies, Journal of Law and Society, American Political Science Review.) 2. Whose Body is it Anyway? Justice and the Integrity of the Person (Oxford University Press, 2006. Ppbk ed. 2008.) Reviewed so far in Medical Law Review, Res Publica (review article), Utilitas (review article), Boston Third World Law Journal, Political Studies Review, Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Journal of Value Inquiry, Review of Metaphysics, Journal of Moral Philosophy (forthcoming), Modern Law Review. 3. Justice in a Changing World (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007). Reviewed in Millenium.
2 4. Cosmopolitan War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press, forthcoming 2012). II. JOURNAL ARTICLES 5. Constitutionalising Social Rights, Journal of Political Philosophy, 6 (1998): 263-84. 6. A Philosophical Argument for A Bill of Rights, British Journal of Political Science, 30 (2000): 77-98. 7. The Dignity of Rights: Jeremy Waldron s Law and Disagreement, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 20 (2000): 271-82. 8. The Choice-Based Right to Bequeath, Analysis 61 (2001): 60-64. 9. Justice, Fairness, and World Ownership, Law and Philosophy 21 (2002): 249-73. 10. To Deliberate or Not to Deliberate: Is That the Question? European Journal of Political Theory 2 (2003): 107-15 11. Justice and the compulsory taking of live body parts Utilitas 15 (2003): 127-150. 12. Justice and Culture: A Review of Rawls, Sen, Nussbaum and O Neill, reviewed article co-authored with David Miller, in Political Studies Review 1 (2003). 13. Good Samaritanism and Justice Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 5 (2004): 128-44. 14. Justice and the Confiscation of Cadaveric Organs, British Journal of Political Science 34 (2004): 69-86. 15. Global Distributive Justice: An Egalitarian Perspective, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, supp. vol. 31 (2006), 139-64. 16. Mandatory Rescue Killings, Journal of Political Philosophy 15 (2007): 363-84. 17. Cosmopolitanism, Legitimate Authority and the Just War, International Affairs 84 (2008): 963-76. 18. Permissible Rescue Killings, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 (2009): 149-64. 19. Reply to Wilkinson, Res Publica, 14 (2008): 137-40. (Reply to Wilkinson s review article, in the previous issue of RP, of Whose Body is it Anyway?). 20. Against Body Exceptionalism: A Reply to Eyal, Utilitas 21 (2009): 246-48. (Reply to Eyal s review article, in that issue, on Whose Body is it Anyway?) 21. Guns, Food, and Liability to attack in war, Ethics 120 (2009): 36-63. 22. In Defence of Mercenarism, British Journal of Political Science, 40 (2010): 539-59.
3 23. Distributive Justice and Freedom: Cohen on Money and Labour, Utilitas volume 22 (2010): 393-412 24. Internecine War Killings, Utilitas Special issue on J. McMahan s theory of war (accepted and in press, forthcoming Spring 2012.) III. BOOK CHAPTERS 25. Social Citizenship and Social Rights, in E. Christodoulidis (ed.) Communitarianism and Citizenship: Legal and Political Perspectives (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 1998). 26. Global Egalitarianism, in D. Bell and A. de-shalit (eds) Forms of Justice (Rowans and Littlefield, 2002). 27. The Stake: An Egalitarian Proposal?, in J. de-wispelaere, K. Dowding and S. White (eds) The Ethics of Stakeholding (Palgrave: 2003). 28. Social Rights in European Constitutions, in G. de Burca and B. de Witte (eds.), Social Rights in Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 29. New Technologies, Justice and the Body, in J. Dryzek, B. Honig and A. Phillips (eds), Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). 30. Posthumous Rights, in M. Kramer, C. Grant, B. Colburn, and A. Hatzistavrou (eds.) The Legacy of H.L.A.Hart Legal, Political and Moral Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). 31. Preconception Rights, in S. de Wijze (ed.) The Anatomy of Justice: Themes From The Political Philosophy Of Hillel Steiner (London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2009). 32. Surrogacy, in H. LaFollette (ed.), International Encyclopaedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell). In press, forthcoming 2012. 33. The Social Contract, ibid. 34. International Relations, ibid. External Awards/Funding for research, seminars and conferences Funding for research events:
4 1998-2000: Successful applications to Nuffield College, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and the French Foreign Office, for two conferences (one on slavery, the other one on republicanism. Lead applicant.) 2008: * Successful applications to the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and the Scots Philosophical Club for conference support (lead applicant) * Successful application to the AHRC for a inter-disciplinary research project on micro financing (Network participant. Lead applicant: Professor Tom Sorrell, Birmingham.) Funding for my own research 1994-1997: ESRC PhD studentship 2004: Four-month ARHB Research Leave. Teaching and teaching-related experience Undergraduate teaching: September 2000 to date:, I have taught undergraduate courses on justice, history of political thought from Plato to Rawls, and the ethics of war (both lectures and classes). From 1994 to 2000, I taught politics to undergraduate students from Oxford colleges. The courses I taught include the following: Introduction to Politics Political Philosophy and French Politics-, Theory of Politics, History of Classical Political Thought, Foundations of Modern Social and Political Thought. Graduate teaching - Masters level/bphil: I have taught courses in contemporary moral political philosophy (distributive justice, ethics of war, ethics of killing), and have supervised on average 4 to 7 dissertations every year. My Masters students have written dissertations on (inter alia, and most recently) supreme emergency and non combatant immunity, the politics of humanitarian intervention, abortion, ethics of genetics, the ethics of military occupation. - Doctoral supervision: I have been supervising a number of doctoral students, five to completion so far, one of whom obtained the PSA Annual Prize for best dissertation in political theory in 2007 (on Kantian cosmopolitanism), three of whom have secured permanent lectureships (Sheffield (2), and Buenos-Aires). The other two currently hold postdoctoral fellowships in the UK and Germany respectively. Topics supervised (inter alia): animal rights; humanitarian intervention; extraterritorial punishment; the ethics of abortion; the permissibility of the use of force in transnational environmental disputes; the ethics of military occupation. Administrative experience *1998-2000 Entrance interviews at Worcester College for the PPE degree (with Professor Alan Ware.) * 2004-2005: Admission Tutor for the MSc in Political Theory, LSE * 09/2005 onwards: Convenor for Research Students at the LSE and Edinburgh. The position involves, inter alia: - overseeing the application process (going through all applications, dispatching them to potential supervisors, answering applicants queries) - designing and overseeing the methodological training of 1 st year doctoral students (which involves organising and chairing methods seminars as well as research workshops)
5 - overseeing the monitoring of all doctoral students at the end of the academic year - dealing with various issues such as changes of supervisors, pastoral concerns, leaves of absence for fieldwork, interruptions of studies for personal reasons, etc. - overseeing departmental nominations for ESRC and AHRC PhD studentships - assessing and ranking students applications for institutional funding - Overseeing the creation and administration of a joint PhD programme (EUfunded) with Cologne University. - Overseeing a funding bid for ESRC recognition, with special emphasis on methods training in political philosophy and philosophy of social sciences. *2006 onwards: took a leading role in setting up the joint BSc in Government and Philosophy at the LSE, and the joint MSc in Ethics and Political Philosophy at Edinburgh (both degrees rely on close cooperation between the departments of Philosophy and Government/Politics.) *2010 onwards: I currently serve on the College s Senior Tutor Committee and the Faculty s Research committee. Examining. Admissions. *Extensive examining experience, including doctoral examination, external examining (at UCL, for the BA in Modern European Studies, since 2007). Conference organising: Organisation of two international conferences in Oxford, in June 2000 (Franco-British conference on Republicanism) and December 1998 (Franco-British conference on the history and representation - literary and pictorial - of slavery in the 17 th to 19 th centuries.) Organisation of two conferences in Edinburgh, the Northern Political Theory Association Conference in February 2008 (20 delegates), and the Annual Conference of the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy in 2009 (95 delegates.) Pastoral experience In my role of personal tutor to a number of undergraduates and Masters students every year, I have had to liaise with the relevant authorities (such as Mental Health advisors, Disability advisors, and the Dean s Office) on behalf of those of my tutees who have severe health and family-related problems. Esteem indicators and outside recognition Association/Learned Societies awards: Fellow of the British Academy (2011). Committee membership Member of the Gifford Lectures Committee, Edinburgh, and of the Edinburgh University Press Academic Committee. Reviewing experiences: - Typescripts refereed for: Oxford University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Polity Press, and The British Journal of Political Science, Global Society, Political Studies, Philosophical Papers, Journal of Political Philosophy, European Journal of Political Theory, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Ethics and International Affairs, Ethics. - 2009-2010: Assessor for the ESRC Large Grants Scheme.
6 Editorial board membership: British Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Res Publica, Raison Publique, Public Philosophy, Public Reason, Journal of Transnational Legal Philosophy. Review board of the International Encyclopaedia of Ethics Conference papers: PSA Annual Conferences and the ECPR Joint Sessions on several occasions, Morell Conference in York, Annual Conferences for the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, Oxford Political Thought Conference, APSA. Recent keynote/main speaker invitations: - February 2007: UCL Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy. - May 2008: Conference of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) (UK Branch), Edinburgh. Keynote lecture on the ethics of war. - July 2008: Brave New World Conference, and Annual Conference of the British Society for Applied Philosophy, Manchester. Keynote lecture on the ethics of war. - October 2009: Oxford workshop on Jeff McMahan s recent book Killing in War. - February 2010: Osgoode Law School/York University seminar in 'Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism.' - March 2010: UCL Colloquium in Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy. - Forthcoming September 2010: Invited speaker at the UK Analytical Legal Philosophy Conference, UCL. Languages other than English French (native speaker). Some knowledge of Latin and Russian.