David Miller

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Career

2016 - present Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
1979 - 2016 Official Fellow in Social and Political Theory, Nuffield College, Oxford
1976 - 1979 Lecturer in Political Theory, University of East Anglia.
1969 - 1976 Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Lancaster.

 

Education

1969 - 74 D. Phil in Politics, Balliol College, Oxford.
1967 - 69 B. Phil in Politics, Balliol College, Oxford.
1964 - 67 B.A. in Mathematics and Moral Sciences, Selwyn College, Cambridge.

 

Books 

(co-edited with Christine Straehle), The Political Philosophy of Refuge, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
(co-edited with Gina Gustavsson), Liberal Nationalism and its Critics: Normative and Empirical Questions, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Is Self-Determination a Dangerous Illusion?, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2019.
Strangers in Our Midst: the political philosophy of immigration, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2016.

 

Articles

'Justifying the Right of Return', Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 21 (2020),  367-94.
‘Needs-based Justice: Theory and Evidence’ in A. Bauer and M. Meyerhuber (eds.), Empirical Research and Normative Theory, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020. 
‘The Nature and Limits of the Duty of Rescue’, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 17 (2020), 320-41.
‘Immigration’ in T. Brooks (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020.
‘Selecting Refugees’ in D. Miller and C. Straehle (eds), The Political Philosophy of Refuge, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020
‘The Coherence of Liberal Nationalism’ in G. Gustavsson and D Miller (eds.), Liberal Nationalism and its Critics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020.

 

  • Justice, social and global
  • Immigration and refugees 
  • Responsibility and the duty of rescue
  • Territorial rights
  • Liberal nationalism
  • Supervision of doctoral, B. Phil and M. Phil (Political Theory) students
  • Class in Contemporary Political Philosophy for M. Phil and B. Phil students