My academic research has mainly focused on questions of political obligation, state legitimacy, and the justification of state power.These days, I’m particularly interested in questions regarding inequality, liberal political theory, political ideologies, and more practical public policy related issues regarding poverty.

Selected Academic Papers:

1. “Subjectivist Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Intervention,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer 2010): 137-151.
2. “Giving Credit When Credit is Due: The Ethics of Authorship,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring 2011): 1-13.
3. “Political Naturalism and State Authority,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Spring 2012): 64-77.
4. “Rawls’s Liberal Principle of Legitimacy,” The Philosophical Forum, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Summer 2012): 153-173.
5. “Acceptance, Fairness and Political Obligation,” Legal Theory, Vol. 18, No. 2 (June 2012): 209-229.
6. “Preemptive Anonymous Whistleblowing” (co-authored with James Rocha), Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 4 (October 2012): 257-271.
7. “Fairness, Benefits, and Voluntary Acceptance,” The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 3-4 (July 2023): 268-289.