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My work has been centrally concerned with formulating a good account of moral rights and applying it to fields of legal practice: just war theory and the law of armed conflict, criminal law, and related forms of law concerned with targeted restrictions of liberty. I have published two books (along with many articles) exploring those themes: The Mechanics of Claims and Permissible Killing in War (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Punishment, Penalty, and Incapacitation: A Dignity- Respecting Model of Targeted Restrictions of Liberty for Liberal States (Oxford University Press, 2026). My new focus is on why and to what extent people have reasons to respect rights.
I hold a joint appointment in the School of Law (Camden) and the Philosophy Department (New Brunswick).