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Associate Professor in Human Rights and Political Philosophy
Room: 2.03, 29/30 Tavistock Square
Tel: 020 7679 4947Ìý
Email:Ìýs.meckled-garcia@ucl.ac.uk

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Biography

I obtained myÌýundergraduate degree in Philosophy from King’s College, London, before graduating with a Doctorate in Political PhilosophyÌýfrom UCL. IÌýtook up a Special Fellowship in Philosophy at UCL, giving a series of inter-collegiate lectures on the philosophy of the young Marx, before becoming a Junior Research Fellow at Birmingham University, and then a Rubin Senior Research Fellow in Human Rights at the ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûSchool of Public Policy. IÌýjoined the faculty of the Department of Political Science at ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûin 2003 as a Lecturer (now Associate Professor) in Human Rights and Political Philosophy.

I founded the Human Rights programme at the ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûSchool of Public Policy, having designed and launched the MA in Human Rights in 2003. I amÌýalso co-founder and Director of the .

I have been on the editorial board of Imprints:ÌýJournal of Egalitarian Theory and Policy, an associate editor for Res Publica, and a referee for a variety of journals (including Political Studies, The Journal of Political Philosophy, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, The Philosophical Quarterly, Review of International Studies,Ìýand The Journal of Applied Philosophy, Moral Theory and Practice).

More recently, IÌýco-founded the first , with colleagues from Argentina and Mexico (and a growing number of scholars from other Latin American countries). This has been made possible by the award of a British Academy International Partnership Grant.

Research

My research focuses on finding the links between adopting different ethical theories and the upshots that this has for what we do in practice. IÌýfocusÌýon the ethical fields of human rights, justice, and international justice, and on key concepts in those fields, such as responsibility, duty, rights, complicity, liability, and practical reasons. I amÌýparticularly interested in tracing the values that might motivate us to adopt different accounts of those components, and what this means in practice.

Publications

Books

• Meckled-Garcia, S. and Cali,ÌýB. (eds.) (2006)Ìý.ÌýOxford: Routledge.

Journal articles

• Meckled-Garcia, S.Ìýand Aitchison Cornish, G. (2021)Ìý‘’, Social Theory and Practice, 47(1), pp. 1–31.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2018) ‘’,ÌýLaw, Ethics, and Philosophy, 6, pp.Ìý92–119.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2018) ‘’,ÌýJournal of Applied Philosophy, 35(1), pp.Ìý70–89.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2016) ‘’,ÌýCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 19(5), pp.Ìý534–554.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2014)Ìý‘’,ÌýCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 17(6), pp.Ìý681–688.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2013) ‘’,ÌýRaisons PolitiquesÌý(English Language Special Issue).
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2013) ‘’,ÌýJournal of Applied Philosophy, 30(1).
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2014)Ìý‘’,ÌýPolitical Studies, 62(2).
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2011)Ìý‘’,ÌýReview of International Studies, 37(5).
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2009)Ìý‘’,ÌýJournal of Ethics and Global Politics.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2008)Ìý‘’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 16(3).
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2004) ‘’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 105, pp. 148–148.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2004) ‘’, Res Publica, 10, pp.Ìý153–174.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2002) ‘’,ÌýImprints, 6(2).
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2002) ‘’, Political Studies, 50(4).
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2001) ‘’,ÌýRes Publica,Ìý7, pp. 293–313.

Book chapters

• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2015) ‘’, in R. Cruft, S. M.ÌýLiaoÌýand M.ÌýRenzo (eds.)ÌýPhilosophical Foundations of Human Rights.ÌýOxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 300–315.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2013) ‘? Consequentialist Liability and Cosmopolitan Alternatives’, in G.ÌýBrock (ed.)ÌýCosmopolitanism Versus Non-cosmopolitanism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 111–128.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2009) ‘’, in D.ÌýP. Forsyth (ed.)ÌýOxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Open University Press.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2009) ‘’, in B. Cali (ed.)ÌýInternational Law for International Relations.ÌýOpen University Press.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2009) ‘How Not to Think about Human Rights and (Global) Justice’Ìý(in Spanish), in M. G. Leclercq and J.ÌýMontero (eds.)ÌýHuman Rights, Democracy and Deliberation in a Transnational World (Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Deliberacion en un Mundo Transnacional), Buenos Aires: Prometeo.
• Meckled-Garcia S. and Cali, B. (2005) ‘’, in S. Meckled-Garcia and B. Cali (eds.)ÌýThe Legalization of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights and Human Rights Law. Oxford: Routledge.
• Meckled-Garcia, S. (2004) ‘Toleration and Neutrality: Saving an Unhappy Marriage?’Ìý(aÌýreply to Peter Jones’Ìýcritique of myÌýoriginal paper: ‘Toleration and Neutrality: Incompatible Ideals?’), in D. Castiglione and C. McKinnon (eds.)ÌýToleration, Neutrality and Democracy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Teaching

I teachÌýthe Master’sÌýmodules: ‘Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights’ (PUBL0018);Ìý‘Normative Methods, Legal AnalysisÌýand Research Skills’ (PUBL0057);Ìýand ‘The Ethics of Poverty’ (PUBL00513).

I haveÌýsupervised a number of doctoral students who have gone on to obtain academic positions at leading universities around the globe.

Areas in which I would be interested in supervising doctoral research projects are: human rights theory; rights theory; international justice theory; international legal theory; theories of political responsibility; perfect and imperfect duties in political theory; theories of justice; Dworkin and interpretation; theory/normative methodology; and political neutrality.