He is Professor at New York University School of Law. He researches and writes on jurisprudence and political theory. He has published articles and books on theories of rights, constitutionalism, the rule of law, democracy, judicial review, property, torture, security and homelessness, as well as historical political theory (Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill and Hannah Arendt). He received his doctorate from Oxford and has taught at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Berkeley and Columbia University.

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