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    Distributive Justice, State Coercion, and Autonomy
    Philosophy and Public Affairs 30 (3): 257-296. 2001.
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  •  244
    Immigration, Jurisdiction, and Exclusion
    Philosophy and Public Affairs 41 (2): 103-130. 2013.
  •  206
    The right to exclude
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 17 (5): 521-537. 2014.
  •  133
    Two Models of Equality and Responsibility
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 38 (2): 165-199. 2008.
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    International justice
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
  •  86
    Discretionary Immigration
    Philosophical Topics 30 (2): 251-273. 2002.
  •  58
    Toleration and reciprocity: Commentary on Martha Nussbaum and Henry Shue
    Politics, Philosophy and Economics 1 (3): 325-335. 2002.
    Rawls's Law of Peoples has not gathered a great deal of public support. The reason for this, I suggest, is that it ignores the differences between the international and domestic realms as regards the methodology of reciprocal agreement. In the domestic realm, reciprocity produces both stability and respect for individual moral agency. In the international realm, we must choose between these two values — seeking stable relations between states, or respect for individual moral agency. Rawls's Law …Read more
  •  56
    What is the Border For?
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 17 (4): 379-397. 2020.
    Many discussions of the moral dimensions of borders emphasize how those borders foster and sustain a national community. In this paper, I discuss three distinct sorts of goods that might be best preserved in the presence of state borders. The first of these is decolonization; I argue that undermining colonial structures might require political institutions with the right to refuse unwanted outsiders. The second of these is social solidarity; we might find that the inability to exclude outsiders …Read more
  •  56
    Immigration
    In Christopher Wellman (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 224-237. 2005.
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    Equality without Documents: Political Justice and the Right to Amnesty
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 40 (S1): 99-122. 2010.
    All modern democratic societies claim to be egalitarian. They do not agree, of course, about what egalitarianism demands; the ideal of equality is hardly transparent and can be plausibly understood to encompass any number of social arrangements and values. Thatsomeform of equality is to be prized, though, is uncontroversial. Indeed, it may be true that all political theories that have stood the test of time can be understood as specifying and interpreting the ideal of equality. Whether or not th…Read more
  •  41
    Global cities, global justice?
    with Loren King
    Journal of Global Ethics 14 (3): 332-352. 2018.
    The global city is a contested site of economic innovation and cultural production, as well as profound inequalities of wealth and life chances. These cities, and large cities that aspire to ‘global’ status, are often the point of entry for new immigrants. Yet for political theorists (and indeed many scholars of global institutions), these critical sites of global influence and inequality have not been a significant focus of attention. This is curious. Theorists have wrestled with the nature and…Read more
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    Justice, Institutions, and Luck
    Philosophical Review 125 (1): 148-151. 2016.
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    Agency, Coercion, and Global Justice: A Reply to My Critics
    Law and Philosophy 35 (3): 313-335. 2016.
    Mathias Risse, Andrea Sangiovanni, and Kok-Chor Tan have offered some subtle and powerful criticisms of the ideas given in my Justice and Foreign Policy. Three themes in particular recur in their critiques. The first is that the arguments I make in that book rest upon unjustified, arbitrary, or contradictory premises. The second is that the use of coercion in the analysis of distributive justice is a mistake. The third is that the global institutional set represents, contrary to my arguments, an…Read more
  •  33
    Book Review: Immigration Justice, by Peter W. Higgins (review)
    with Peter Higgins
    Political Theory 43 (3): 412-415. 2015.
  •  32
    Geeks and monsters: Bias crimes and social identity (review)
    Law and Philosophy 20 (2): 121-139. 2001.
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    Many of the most skilled and educated citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate. How may those societies respond to these facts? May they ever legitimately prevent the emigration of their citizens? Gillian Brock and Michael Blake debate these questions, and offer distinct arguments about the morality of emigration.
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    Sanctuary Cities and Non-Refoulement
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 23 (2): 457-474. 2020.
    More than two hundred cities in the United States have now declared themselves to be sanctuary cities. This declaration involves a commitment to non-compliance with federal law; the sanctuary city will refuse to use its own juridical power – including, more crucially, its own police powers – to assist the federal government in the deportation of undocumented residents. We will argue that the sanctuary city might be morally defensible, even if deportation is not always wrong, and even if the fede…Read more
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    Are Citizenship Tests Necessarily Illiberal?
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 22 (2): 313-329. 2019.
    In recent years, many philosophers have argued that it is inherently illiberal to make citizenship for migrants conditional on a test. On these arguments, liberalism itself demands either that no test be administered, or that the test be so easy as to serve merely a symbolic function. In this paper, I make two claims in response to these ideas. The first is that a citizenship test - even a difficult one - is not inherently illiberal, when what is tested for reflects the actual backdrop of knowle…Read more
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    Collateral benefit
    Social Philosophy and Policy 23 (1): 218-230. 2006.
    This essay attempts to identify the ethical principles appropriate to a second-order political agent—an agent, that is, whose primary responsibility lies not in the implementation of state power, but in the response to and evaluation of that state power. The specific agent I examine is the human rights non-governmental organization, and the specific context is that of humanitarian military intervention. I argue that the specific role of the human rights NGO gives rise to ethical permissions not …Read more
  •  21
    Justice and Foreign Policy
    Oxford University Press. 2013.
    The book is an argument about the moral foundations of foreign policy. It argues that the traditional idea of liberal equality can be interpreted so as to give moral guidance to policy leaders in understanding what they ought to seek internationally