DR MIRIAM RONZONI Personal website: http://www.mwpweb.eu/MiriamRonzoni RESEARCH INTERESTS: international political theory; theories of justice; justice and global governance; the methodology of constructivism. AOS: Political theory and philosophy; normative ethics; meta-ethics. AOC: Bioethics and applied ethics; history of political thought; political ideologies; human rights theory and institutions; global governance and global public policy; international relations theory; legal philosophy. APPOINTMENTS August 2013-continuing

University of Manchester Senior Lecturer in Political Theory

Nov 2012/Present

Technical University of Darmstadt Director of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Group “Background Justice between States” (1.6 Mi. Grant by the Humboldt Foundation)

Dec 2009/Oct 2012

Centre for Advanced Studies “Justitia Amplificata”, University of Frankfurt Research Fellow (independent research, planning of research activities of the centre and management of a budget of €1 million per year in a team of five)

Sept 2008/Aug 2010

European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences Max Weber Fellow (academic year 2008/2009) and Visiting Fellow (2009/2010)

Oct 2007/June 2008

University College London, School of Public Policy Teaching Fellow in Human Rights (lectures and seminars in human rights and international political theory at graduate level)

Sept 2006/Sept 2007

St. Peter’s College, Oxford College Lecturer in Politics (tutorials in PPE Prelims, Theory of Politics, Ethics, and History of Political Thought at undergraduate level)

Oct 2001/March 2007

University of Oxford (various colleges), University of Reading, University of Milano-Bicocca Tutor in social philosophy; political theory; history of political thought; feminism and political theory; ethics; political ideologies; philosophy of the social sciences (all at undergraduate level)

EDUCATION Oct 2004/June 2008

University of Oxford, St Peter’s College D.Phil. in Political Theory Thesis title: “Constructivism and the Basic Structure of Society” (Supervisor: Dr Adam Swift)

Oct 2003/July 2004

University of Oxford, St Peter’s College M.Sc. in Political Theory Research, Thesis title: “Constructivism, the Basic Structure, and the Scope of Principles of Justice: A Reply to Cohen” (Distinction) (Supervisor: Professor David Miller)

Oct 2002/July 2003

University

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of Oxford, St Peter’s College

Graduate Visiting Student Jan 2002/Jan 2005

Università degli Studi di Milano Doctorate in Philosophy (Supervisor: Professor Paolo Spinicci)

Dec 2001/Feb 2002

ISPI (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale) Summer School in Poverty and Globalization

Oct 1996/Feb 2001

Università degli Studi di Milano Degree (Diploma di Laurea) in Philosophy 110/110 cum laude (top mark)

PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS_______________________________________________ EDITED VOLUMES AND SPECIAL ISSUES

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Special Issue: Symposium on G.A. Cohen and Socialism (with Zofia Stemplowska), Politics, Philosophy and Economics, May 2014; Global Political Justice (with Terry Macdonald, republication of the CRISPP special issue as an edited volume, see below), Routledge, May 2013; Special Issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy on “Global Political Justice,” (with Terry MacDonald), December 2012; Social Justice, Global Dynamics: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, (with Ayelet Banai and Christian Schemmel), London, Routledge 2011;

ARTICLES (* INDICATES PEER-REVIEW)

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“What is a Free State? Republican Internationalism and Globalisation” (with Cécile Laborde), Political Studies, forthcoming (available on Early View); “Global Tax Governance: The Bullets Internationalists Must Bite – And Those They Must Not,” in Moral Philosophy and Politics (2014/1). Launch special issue edited by Gillian Brock and Thomas Pogge; “What Does Liberal Legitimacy Really Require?”, Analysis, forthcoming 2014 (Symposium on Nicole Hassoun, Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations); * “Two Concepts of State Sovereignty, and their Implications for Global Institutional Design,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 15/5 (December 2012); * “Politics and the Contingent: A Plea for a More Embedded Account of Freedom as Independence”, European Journal of Philosophy, 20/3 (September 2012; symposium on Arthur Ripstein’s Force and Freedom); * “Life is Not a Camping Trip – Or, on the Desirability of Cohenite Socialism,”, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, May 2012; “Die Internationalisierung der Straf- und sozialer Gerechtigkeit: Parallele Entwicklungen? (with Elisa Orrù), Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 59/6 (December 2011); * “Which Supranational Sovereignty? Socio-economic Justice and International Criminal Law Compared” (with Elisa Orrú), Review of International Studies, 37/5 (November 2011); “Il campeggio e la società”, Mondoperaio, March 2011; * “Deontology, Teleology, and the Priority of the Right: On Some Unappreciated Distinctions,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 13/4 (October 2010); * “Constructivism and Practical Reason: On Intersubjectivity, Abstraction, and Judgment”, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, 7/1 (January 2010); “Making Access to Trade Conditional on Labour Standards?” (Extended review of Christian Barry and Sanjay Reddy, International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage), Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, 2/1 (December 2009); “Does Justice Need To Be Rescued?” (G.A. Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality), European Political Science Review, December 2009; * “The Global Order: A Case of Background Injustice? A Practice-dependent Approach”, Philosophy & Public Affairs 37/3 (Summer 2009); * “On the Meta-ethical Status of Constructivism: Reflections on G. A. Cohen’s ‘Facts and Principles’” (with Laura Valentini), Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 7/4 (November 2008);

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* “What Makes a Basic Structure Just?”, Res Publica 14/3 (September 2008); * “Two Concepts of Basic Structure, and their Relevance to Global Justice”, Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 1/1 (January 2008); * “Is the Personal Political? Justice of Institutions and Justice of Individual Conduct”, Notizie di Politeia XIX/71 (2003); “La disobbedienza civile e i suoi confini”, Iride 2004/2; “Ripensare la filosofia politica di John Rawls”(Extended review of The Cambridge Companion to Rawls), Teoria Politica 2004/1; “Die Bernauer Manuskripte über das Zeitbewußtsein (1917-1918). Brevi note su un approccio genetico al problema della temporalità”, Leitmotiv 2003/3; “Lo stile e il mondo: tra Panofsky, Worringer e Deleuze”, Le Parole della Filosofia 1999/II;

BOOK CHAPTERS AND LEXICON ENTRIES (* INDICATES PEER-REVIEW)

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* “Global Justice and the Role of the State: A Critical Survey,” with Laura Valentini, in Oxford Handbook of Global Justice, edited by Thom Brooks, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016; “Microfinance, Poverty Relief, and Political Justice,” (with Laura valentini) in Microfinance, Rights, and Global Justice, ed. Luis Cabrera, Tom Sorrell, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2015; * “Global Labour Injustice: A Critical Overview,” in Global Justice and International Labour Law, edited by Yossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner, Faina Milman-Sivan, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2015; “Institutions”, “Obligations”, and “Four Stage Sequence,” in Jon Mandle and David Reidy (eds.) The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014; * “For (Some) Political and Institutional Cosmopolitanism, (Even If) Against Moral Cosmopolitanism”, Cosmopolitanism vs Non-Cosmopolitanism: Critiques, Defences, Reconceptualizations, edited by Gillian Brock, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013; “ Zwei Konzeptionen staatlicher Souveränität und ihre Implikationen für die Gestaltung globaler Institutionen”, Transnationale Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie, edited by Peter Niesen, Frankfurt am Main, Campus Verlag, 2012; “Facts and Principles”, in Antonella Besussi (ed.), Philosophy and Politics: Methods, Tools, Topics, London, Ashgate, 2012; “Global Social Justice: The Possibility of Social Justice beyond States in a World of Overlapping Practices”, with Ayelet Banai and Christian Schemmel, in Social Justice, Global Dynamics: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, edited by Ayelet Banai, Miriam Ronzoni and Christian Schemmel, Routledge, 2011; “La giustizia: valore o soluzione di un problema? Una prospettiva costruttivista” Fatti e Principi, edited by Antonella Besussi and Enrico Biale, Aracne 2010; “Gerechtigkeit oder ‘soziale Regulieriung’? Der normative Status von Gerechtigkeitsprinzipien”, in Gerechtigkeit: auf der Suche nach einem Gleichgewicht, edited by O. Neumaier, C. Sedmak and M. Zichy, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt 2005;

BOOK REVIEWS

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Michal Blake, Justice and Foreign Policy, Political Theory, forthcoming; Kok-Chor Tan, Justice Without Borders, Ethics & International Affairs, forthcoming; Antonella Besussi, Disputandum Est, Filosofia Politica, forthcoming; G.A. Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality. Justice, Equality, and Constructivism: Essays on G. A. Cohen’s ‘Rescuing Justice and Equality, ed. Brian Feltham; Mind, 2013; Valeria Ottonelli, La libertà delle donne, Micromega online, May 25th 2012; Vittorio Mathieu, Le Radici Classiche dell’Europa, Bollettino Telematico di Filosofia Politica, 2002; Jean-Luc Nancy, Essere Singolare Plurale, Bollettino Telematico di Filosofia Politica, 2001; Massimilano Guareschi, Gilles Deleuze Popfilosofo, Leitmotiv 2001;

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

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“Eine Italienische Geschichte”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 22nd, 2011; “No Country for Queers”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 22nd, 2011; “Wann, wenn nicht jetzt?”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 23rd, 2011;

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SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS 8-11 July 2015

Council for European studies Conference, roundtable participation, Paris;

4 June 2015

Invited Talk, University of Oxford;

12-13 May 2015

Invited Speaker, Workshop on The chnagig Nature of Political Obligation, University College London;

8-10 January 2015

Keynote Speaker, Conference on the Ethics of Economic Institutions, Utrecht;

November 2014

Invited Talk, University of Bristol;

October 2014

Invited Talk, University of Warwick;

October 2014

Invited Talk, University of Cambridge;

10-11 July 2014

Invited speaker, Conference on global economic justice, Justitia Amplificata, Frankfurt;

June 2014

Invited Talk, Workshop on “Creating Just Institutions,” University of Oxford

May 2014

Workshop on “Justice in the EU, Darmstadt, organization and presentation;

May 2014

Invited Talk, Workshop on “Marxism and Global Justice,” LSE;

April 2014

Invited Talk, Workshop on “Wrongs Across Borders,” university of Toronto;

December 2013

“Is EU Demoicracy a Viable Third Way,” University of Turin;

June 2013

“Problematizing Cosmopolitanism, Workshop on “Justice Beyond Borders: International, Global, or Transnational?” Bad Homburg;

March 2013

ECPR Joint Sessions, global tax Governance: Normative and Institutional Issues;

March 2013

Conference on Europe, Integration, and Democracy, University of Belgrade;

December 2012

Invited Talk (“Justice and Quasi-perfect Duties”), London School of Economics and Political Science;

September 2012

“Justice and Legitimacy in Global Governance”, University of St. Gallen;

July 2012

Guest Lecture, University of Konstanz;

June 2012

Invited Talk, University of Bayreuth;

March 2012

“For (Some) Political and Institutional Cosmopolitanism, (Even If) Against Moral Cosmopolitanism”, Conference “Cosmopolitanism and IR Theories,” University of Darmstadt;

February 2012

Invited Talk (“Taking Intuitions Seriously, but Not Dogmatically), Workshop “Unpacking Rawls”, University of Milan;

January 2012

Invited Talk (“What is a Free State?”), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin;

January 2012

Invited Talk (“Labour and Global Background Justice”), Workshop on Global Justice and International Labour, Haifa, Israel;

August 2011

Panel Organizer (“Global Justice Beyond Distribution”) with own paper presentation(Two Concepts of Sovereignty”), and invited contribution in “Panel Meets Critics: Arthur Ripstein’s ‘Force and Freedom’”, ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik;

July 2011

Invited Talk: “World Poverty and Just War Theory: Should the “Reasonable Chance of Success” Clause Count, Workshop on Global Justice and Just War Theory, Hebrew University, Jerusalem;

June 2011

“Two Concepts of Sovereignty,” Max Weber Lustrum Conference, European University Institute;

May 2011

Invited Talk: “Taking Intuitions Seriously, but not Dogmatically”, Workshop

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“Reasons, Foundation, Justification”, University of Frankfurt; March 2011

Invited contribution as discussant (keynote talk: James Bohman), RECON Workshop “Political Legitimacy Beyond the State”; University of Frankfurt, Bad Homburg;

November 2010

“The Legitimacy of Future Development Cooperation”, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Bonn, Germany;

August 2010

Lecturer at the Summer School in Ethics and Economics of the Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy, Barchem, the Netherlands;

June 2010

“Different Understandings of State Sovereignty, and their Relevance to Global Political Justice”, Workshop on Global Political Justice, Prato Monash Campus;

June 2010

“Taking Intuitions Seriously, but not Dogmatically”, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal;

May 2010

Invited Contribution, Symposium for the Italian Translation of “World Poverty and Human Rights”, by Thomas Pogge, Università degli Studi di Milano;

March 2010

Invited Talk: “Two Concepts of State Sovreignty”, University of Pavia, Italy;

Oct 2009

Invited contribution as discussant (keynote talk: Antonella Besussi), Workshop “Filosofia e Politica: Paradigmi, Stili, Controversie”, Department of Political Science, University of Milan;

May 2009

“Justice, Human Rights, and Institutions: Realm of Quasi-perfect Duties”, Workshop on Collective Responsibility, European University Institute;

May 2009

“Which Supranational Sovereignty? Criminal and Economic Justice Compared”, Workshop on International Law and Global Justice, Centre for the Study of Social Justice, Oxford;

Apr 2009

“The Global Order: A Case of Background Injustice?”, Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association, University of Manchester;

March 2009

Invited Talk: “Constructivist Justice as a Problem-solving Concept”, University of Genoa;

Feb 2009

“Justice, Human Rights, and Institutions: Realm of Quasi-perfect Duties”, Nuffield College Political theory Workshop, Oxford;

Feb 2009

Invited Talk: “Constructivist Justice as a Problem-solving Concept”, University of Sheffield;

July 2008

“Global Background Justice and Effective Sovereignty” (with Christian Schemmel), University of La Havana, Cuba;

June 2008

Invited Talk: “The Global Order: A Case of Background Injustice?”, European University Institute, Florence, Italy;

April 2008

Invited Talk: “The Global Order: A Case of Background Injustice?” University of Pavia, Italy;

May 2007

“Social Justice, Background Justice, and the Basic Structure: A Non-ideal Account”, ECPR Joint Workshop 2007 workshop on “Social Justice: Ideal Theory, Non-ideal Circumstances”, University of Helsinki;

April 2007

“Two Concepts of Basic Structure, and their Relevance to Global Justice”, Priority in Practice, University College London;

June 2006

“The Internal Complexity of Justice: On Conflict, Facts, and Social Reality”, Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (ALSP) Conference, University College Dublin;

March 2006

“Two Concepts of Basic Structure, and their Relevance to Global Justice”, workshop on “Global Justice: Theory, Practice, and Rhetoric”, University

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of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Feb 2004

“Justice or Social Regulation? The Normative Status of Principles of Justice” Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy, Salzburg, Austria; Plenary Lecture (Winner of the essay competition “Justice: In Search of a Balance”);

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Editor and Co-founder of Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric (http://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/journal); Founding member of the Global Justice Network (http://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org); Book reviewer for Notre Dame University Press and Ashgate; Journal Reviewer for American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Political Philosophy, The Monist, Political Studies, The Journal of Politics, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Social Theory and Practice, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Contemporary Political Theory, Res Publica, The Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophy Compass, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, European Political Science Review, Ethical Perspectives, and Raisons Politiques; Conference organization: - “Justice in the EU,” Technical University of Darmstadt, 9th-10th May 2014 (with Juri Viehoff); - “Justice Beyond Borders: International, Global, or Transnational?”, Bad Homburg, 7 th June 2013 8with Stefan Gosepath and Rainer Forst; - “Jerry Cohen and Socialism”, University of Frankfurt, 8th-9th April 2011 (with Zofia Stemplowska); - “Global Political Justice,” Prato Monash Centre, 22nd-23rd June 2010 (with Terry MacDonald); - “Global Justice and Migration,” European University Institute, 23rd-24th April 2010 (with Rainer Bauböck and Christian Schemmel); - “Collective Responsibility,” Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, 29th-30th May 2009 (with Christine Chwaszcza); - “On Objectivity in the Social Sciences and Humanities - Karl Popper and Beyond”, Max Weber Programme, European University Institute, 13th March 2009 (with other Max Weber Fellows); - “Global and Social Justice: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on the Relationship”, Centre for the Study of Social Justice, Oxford, 7th-8th September 2007 (with Ayelet Banai and Christian Schemmel);

GRANTS AND AWARDS 2016

Corti Fellowship, University of Zurich;

2012

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award (granted by the Humboldt Foundation), roughly €1.6 million grant to build and lead a research team on the project “Background Justice between States – Global Institutional Design to Foster Sovereign Statehood” for a period of 5 years;

2007

Nuffield Award for Workshop on “Global and Social Justice: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on the Relationship”, Oxford;

2004/2007

AHRC doctoral award;

2004/2006

St. Peter’s College Graduate Cairncross Award;

2004/2006

Departmental Bursary, Department of Politics and IR, University of Oxford;

Feb 2004

Winner of the essay competition on “Justice: In Search of a Balance”, held by the Austrian Society for Philosophy;

2002/2004

Competitive postgraduate scholarship to pursue research abroad, Università degli Studi di Milano;

May 2001

Banca di Roma, graduation award for the best overall performance;

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SELECTED NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE June - Sept 2003

NGO: MLAL (Movimento Laici America Latina), Ayacucho, Peru Mid-term evaluation of the project “Which Kind of Right is the Right to a Name?”

Oct 2005 – Sept 2006 St. Peter’s College, Oxford Women’s Welfare Officer LANGUAGE SKILLS Italian English, German French, Spanish Latin, Ancient Greek

native speaker fluent oral and written fluent oral, good written competence reading knowledge

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