Project title
Civil Slavery in Early Modern Theories of the State
Project description
The research project investigates how conceptions of slavery and involuntary servitude, in particular arising from conquest in war, were taken up in seventeenth-century English political and legal thought to describe and justify political authority and the state.
Selected publications
‘Hobbes on Treason and Fundamental Law’, Intellectual History Review, online first 2021.
‘‘This man is my property’: Slavery and political absolutism in Locke and the classical social contract tradition’, European Journal of Political Theory, online first 2020 (with Johan Olsthoorn)
‘Property and Despotic Sovereignty’, in Robin Douglass & Johan Olsthoorn (eds.), Hobbes’s ‘On the Citizen’: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 108-12.