Overview:

My academic research is primarily focused on the ethics of self-defence, compensation and punishment. My PhD project focused on how (if at all) justifications of defensive harming are affected when the victims are partially responsible for being threatened, for instance through provocation or risk-taking. More recently, I have also started thinking about some of these questions as they relate to different forms of interpersonal address, such as advising (prospective) victims on how to avoid wrongs or blaming victims for failing to avoid wrongs. 

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Publications:

Articles:

1. "Entrapment and Manipulation", Res Publica vol. 28, no. 1 (2022): 557-58.
   Winner of the 2022 Res Publica Postgraduate Essay Prize.
    

2. "The Ethics of Political Bots: Should We Allow Them for Personal Use?", Journal of Practical Ethics vol. 5, no. 2 (2017): 85-104.
   Runner-up for the 2017 Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics.

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Reviews:

1. "Review of Christopher Nathan, The Ethics of Undercover Policing", Criminal Law and Philosophy, vol 18 (2024): 315-323.

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Work in Progress:

1. [A paper on provocation and self-defence] (R&R)

2. [A paper on necessity and time] (Under review)

3. [A paper on policing protests]

4. [A paper on social injustice and defensive harming]

5. [A paper on offensive advice] (with Romy Eskens)

6. [A paper on victim-blaming]

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