Starting in the fall of 2018, I am starting a position as an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the Minerva Schools at KGI.
In the past few years I was a research associate and post-doctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. I received my Ph.D in political science, with a Ph.D minor in philosophy, at 2016 from Stanford University. I study political theory, focusing on democratic theory and global justice, but my research also engages various topics such as nationalism and sovereignty, ancient political thought, ethics pedagogy and game design.
My book manuscript, Deliberative Democratic Justice in Global Affairs, aims to answer the following questions: Which democratic principles are relevant to a globalizing world? And what does deliberative democracy say about the structure of global governance, human rights regimes and immigration policies? In response, I articulate principles of a global deliberative democracy, providing criteria for evaluating decision-making structures at multiple levels of global governance and requiring varied participation avenues for differently affected people. I revisit the foundation of deliberative democracy and argue that it is best understood as a theory of political justice, articulate a conception of global public reason, and offer a pluralistic account of the all-affected principle as a response to democracy’s boundary problem. I then apply my theory to questions of global political justice by defending accounts of global governance as a nested hierarchy, human rights as membership in the global political community, and immigration regimes that incorporate voices of would-be immigrants. The book provides a framework for considering other questions in the field of global justice, such as climate justice and the regulation of the global economic system, which I intend to pursue in the future.
I hold a B.A. (summa cum laude) in PPE (philosophy, politics and economics) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the city where I was born and raised.
In the past few years I was a research associate and post-doctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. I received my Ph.D in political science, with a Ph.D minor in philosophy, at 2016 from Stanford University. I study political theory, focusing on democratic theory and global justice, but my research also engages various topics such as nationalism and sovereignty, ancient political thought, ethics pedagogy and game design.
My book manuscript, Deliberative Democratic Justice in Global Affairs, aims to answer the following questions: Which democratic principles are relevant to a globalizing world? And what does deliberative democracy say about the structure of global governance, human rights regimes and immigration policies? In response, I articulate principles of a global deliberative democracy, providing criteria for evaluating decision-making structures at multiple levels of global governance and requiring varied participation avenues for differently affected people. I revisit the foundation of deliberative democracy and argue that it is best understood as a theory of political justice, articulate a conception of global public reason, and offer a pluralistic account of the all-affected principle as a response to democracy’s boundary problem. I then apply my theory to questions of global political justice by defending accounts of global governance as a nested hierarchy, human rights as membership in the global political community, and immigration regimes that incorporate voices of would-be immigrants. The book provides a framework for considering other questions in the field of global justice, such as climate justice and the regulation of the global economic system, which I intend to pursue in the future.
I hold a B.A. (summa cum laude) in PPE (philosophy, politics and economics) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the city where I was born and raised.