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Cécile Laborde

{{Short description|Political theorist}}

Cécile Laborde {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} is a professor of political theory at the University of Oxford. Since 2017, she has held the Nuffield Chair of Political Theory and in 2013 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Her research focusses on republicanism, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and global justice. Her most recent book, Liberalism's Religion, was published by Harvard University Press in 2017.

Biography

Laborde was born in France. From 1989 to 1992, she studied at Sciences Po Bordeaux. She graduated with a degree in political science. She then moved to England to study European politics at the University of Hull, graduating with an MA in 1993, before studying at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where she obtained a DPhil in politics in 1997. She was a member of St. Antony's College. The title of her DPhil thesis was "States, Groups, and Individuals. Pluralism in British and French Political Thought".{{cite web |title=Prof. Cecile Laborde |url=https://www.academia-net.org/profil/prof-cecile-laborde/1154540 |website=AcademiaNet}}{{Cite web|title=Rhodes Scholar Database - Rhodes Trust|url=http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/|website=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|language=en|access-date=2020-05-20}}

She has held positions at University of Exeter, King's College London, and University College London (UCL), including as Professor of Political Theory in the School of Public Policy at UCL from 2009 to 2017. From 2010 to 2011, she was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. From 2012 to 2016, she was the principal investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) project entitled "Is religion special? Secularism and religion in contemporary legal and political theory".{{cite web |title=Final Report Summary - RAPT (Is Religion Special? Reformulating Secularism and Religion in Legal and Contemporary Theory) |url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/283867/reporting |website=Community Research and Development Information Service}} Since 2017, she has held the Nuffield Chair in Political Theory at the University of Oxford.

Honours, awards and distinctions

Laborde was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013.{{cite web |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/cecile-laborde-FBA |title=Professor Cécile Laborde FBA |website=The British Academy}}

Published books

  • {{cite book |last=Laborde |first=Cécile |year=1995 |title=La Confrérie Layenne et les Lébou du Sénégal |language=fr |publisher=Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux |isbn=9782908065305}}
  • {{cite book |last=Laborde |first=Cécile |author-mask=2 |year=2000 |title=Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France, 1900-25 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780333732021}}
  • {{cite book |last=Laborde |first=Cécile |author-mask=2 |year=2008 |title=Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Conspiracy and Political Philosophy |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199550210}}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Laborde |editor1-first=Cécile |editor2-last=Maynor |editor2-first=John |year=2008 |title=Republicanism and Political Theory |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=9781405155793}}
  • {{cite book |last=Laborde |first=Cécile |author-mask=2 |year=2010 |title=Français, encore un effort pour être républicains! |language=fr |publisher=Le Seuil |isbn=9782021018714 }}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Cohen |editor1-first=Jean L. |editor-link=Jean L. Cohen |editor2-last=Laborde |editor2-first=Cécile |year=2015 |title=Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231540735}}
  • {{cite book |last=Laborde |first=Cécile |author-mask=2 |year=2017 |title=Liberalism's Religion |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0674976269}}

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal |last=Piga |first=Adriana |date=December 1996 |title=La Confrérie Layenne et les Lébou du Sénégal by Cecile Laborde |type=Review |journal=Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=605–607 |jstor=i40033879}}
  • {{cite journal |last=Stone |first=Judith F. |date=Fall 2001 |title=Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France, 1900–1925 by Cécile Laborde |type=Review |journal=French Politics, Culture & Society |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=125–127 |jstor=42843194}}
  • {{cite journal |last=Stapleton |first=Julia |date=Winter 2002 |title=Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France, 1900–1925 by Cécile Laborde |type=Review |journal=History of Political Thought |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=708–710 |jstor=26219909}}
  • {{cite journal |last=Pedersen |first=Jean Elisabeth |date=June 2005 |title=Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France, 1900–1925 by Cécile Laborde |type=Review |journal=The Journal of Modern History |volume=77 |issue=2 |pages=401–403 |doi=10.1086/431826 |jstor=431826}}
  • {{cite journal |last=Welch |first=Cheryl B. |date=Winter 2010 |title=Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy by Cécile Laborde |type=Review |journal=French Politics, Culture & Society |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=145–148 |jstor=42843683 }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Pranchère |first=Jean-Yves |date=2012 |title=Français, encore un effort pour être républicains! by Cécile Laborde |type=Review |journal=Revue européenne des sciences sociales |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=259–263 |doi=10.4000/ress.1237 |jstor=41970133|doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite magazine |last=Segal |first=Robert A. |date=28 September 2017 |title=Liberalism's Religion, by Cécile Laborde |type=Review |magazine=Times Higher Education |issue=2325}}
  • {{cite magazine |last=Prusak |first=Bernard G. |date=18 May 2018 |title=Protecting Religious Liberty |magazine=Commonweal |volume=145 |issue=9 |pages=14–17}}
  • {{cite magazine |last=Ignatieff |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Ignatieff |date=28 June 2018 |title=Making Room for God |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/making-room-for-god-liberalism-religion/ |url-access=subscription |magazine=The New York Review of Books}}
  • {{cite journal |last=Ceva |first=Emanuela |date=July 2018 |title=Book Reviews: Laborde, Cécile. Liberalism's Religion |journal=Ethics |volume=128 |issue=4 |pages=819–823 |doi=10.1086/697453|s2cid=172071193 }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Chaplin |first=Jonathan |date=August 2018 |title=Political Liberalism and Christian Political Theology: A Review of Two Works by Liberals that Can Enhance Prospects for Dialogue |journal=Studies in Christian Ethics |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=281–295 |doi=10.1177/0953946818770402|s2cid=150351239 }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Kramer |first=Matthew H. |author-link=Matthew Kramer |date=November 2018 |title=Cécile Laborde, Liberalism's Religion |journal=Modern Law Review |volume=81 |issue=6 |pages=1085–1087 |doi=10.1111/1468-2230.12372|s2cid=149674556 }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Hertzberg |first= Benjamin R. |date=December 2018 |title=Book Review: Liberalism's Religion, by Cécile Laborde |journal=Political Theory |volume=46 |issue=6 |pages=975–980 |doi=10.1177/0090591718762396|s2cid= 149080212 }}
  • {{cite journal |editor1-last=Bardon |editor1-first=Aurélia |editor2-last=Howard |editor2-first=Jeffrey W. |date=2020 |title=Liberalism's Religion: Cécile Laborde and Her Critics |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/23/1 |journal=Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy |volume=23 |issue=1 |isbn=9780367502676}}

External links

  • [http://rhodesproject.com/cecile-laborde-profile Interview with the Rhodes Project]
  • [http://www.cccb.org/en/participants/file/cecile-laborde/39722 Laborde's lecture on Religion and the Public Sphere]

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