Seyla Benhabib

On June 2022, Seyla Benhabib is our Distinguished Visiting Professor. She will give the keynote lecture of our workshop “Borders, Territory and Rights: Changing Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility.”

Seyla Benhabib is Senior Research Scholar and Professor Adjunct of Law at Columbia Law School and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Senior Fellow, CCCT, at Columbia University.

Selected Publications

2020. “The End of the 1951 Convention.  Dilemmas of Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Human Rights,” Jus Cogens 2, no 1, 75-100

2018. Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin, Princeton University Press

2011. Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Turbulent Times, Polity Press

2004. The Rights of Others: Aliens, Citizens and Residents, Cambridge University Press

2002. The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era, Princeton University Press

1996. Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political, Princeton University Press

1992. Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Post-modernism in Contemporary Ethics, Polity Press and Routledge