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• I'm Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol. I've  been  at Bristol since 1988.
• Previous locations include the University of Essex, the LSE and Magdalen College Oxford. I teach mainly political philosophy, though I've been known to lecture on philosophy of social science and even on Descartes.  
• My book Rousseau and The Social Contract appeared in 2003 in  Routledge's Philosophy Guidebooks series.
• I was recently (2007-9) President of the Rousseau Association and organized the Association's 2011 Colloquium.
• Aside from that, my main research interests are in modern social contract theory, in theories of justice (especially global distributive justice, including issues concerning territory and migration) and in public justification.
• In 2005/6 I was the holder of a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship to work on topics in global justice. Together with Cara Nine of University College, Cork, I'm was holder of a network award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, to work on topic involving territory and justice.
• I was until recently the editor of Imprints: Egalitarian Theory and Practice, was once on the editorial committee of New Left Review. 
• I have been blogging at the group blog Crooked Timber since 2003.
• Outside of professional life, I'm active around rights for migrants and asylum seekers, particularly through Migrant Rights Centre Bristol. I am also a keen photographer, and you can access my Flickr stream by clicking on the grid of photos above.

Some writings available on the web:

• Institutions and the limits of procedural justice (Working draft: comments welcome!)
  
• Justice and property: on the institutional thesis concerning property (Working draft: comments welcome!)
  
• Entry on Jean-Jacques Rousseau for the Stanford Enclyclopedia of Philosophy
  
• Natural Rights to Migration?
  
• Coercion of foreigners, territory and compensation (Working draft: comments welcome!)
  
• Political Justification, Theoretical Complexity, and Democratic Community (Ethics, Vol. 107, No. 4. (Jul., 1997), pp. 563-583. - via JSTOR subscription may be needed).
• Principles of Distributive Justice, Counterfactuals and History Journal of Political Philosophy, 1 (3):213-28 (1993) .
  
• Bristol and Burke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "The General Society of the Human Race" (CB trans.)
• Institutionalizing the Difference Principle