Academic interests
- Republican political theory
- Theories of the state
- Migration and border control
Background
- Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo (2025–)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo (2022–2025)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe ‘The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?’, Freie Universität Berlin (2021–2022)
- DPhil Candidate, Balliol College and Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, funded by an Aker Scholarship (2017–2021)
- Lecturer in Political Theory, Magdalen College, University of Oxford (2020)
Education
- DPhil (PhD), Politics, University of Oxford
Tags:
Political theory
Publications
Monograph
In progress. Coordination and Exclusion: A Republican Theory of Border Control, under contract with Oxford University Press.
Articles
2025. “Feasibility: superfluous or moralized.” Ethics 136 (1): 88–120.
2025. “Is residence at the core of subjection?” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, online first. Available at: doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2025.2512272.
2024. “The practice and legitimacy of border control.” American Journal of Political Science 68 (2): 544–556.
2023. “Institutional conservatism and the right to exclude.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 24 (3): 409–433.
2023. “Symmetry in the delegation of power as a legitimacy criterion” (with Trym Nohr Fjørtoft). JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 61 (4): 900–916.
2022. “Rescue missions in the Mediterranean and the legitimacy of the EU’s border regime” (with Antoinette Scherz). Res Publica 28 (4): 673–692.
2020. “Systemic domination, social institutions and the coalition problem.” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 19 (4): 382–402.
Book chapter
Forthcoming. “The coalition problem” (with Cécile Laborde) in The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism, ed. Frank Lovett and Mortimer Sellers. Oxford University Press. Available at: doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197754115.013.18.
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Sep. 30, 2022 11:01 AM
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