Professor Cécile Fabre

Professor Cécile Fabre

MA, D.Phil, MAE, FBA
Philosophy, Politics and International Relations
Senior Research Fellow since 2014

Cécile Fabre is Senior Research Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. She holds degrees from La Sorbonne, the University of York, and the University of Oxford, and had held positions at the LSE and the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include theories of distributive justice, the rights we have over our own body, and the ethics of foreign policy. She has published papers in (amongst others) Ethics, Law and Philosophy, The Journal of Political Philosophy and the British Journal of Political Science. Her books include Social Rights under the Constitution (OUP 2000), Whos Body is it Anyway? (OUP 2006), Cosmopolitan War (OUP 2012), Cosmopolitan Peace (OUP 2016), Economic Statecraft (Harvard UP 2018), and Spying Through a Glass Darkly (OUP 2022). She delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford in 2022 on the ethics of preserving cultural heritage, and is expanding the lectures into a monograph. She is a member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Research Areas
Cultural Heritage
The Ethics of Armed Conflicts
Distributive Justice
Democratic Theory
Teaching

I regularly teach graduate classes in political philosophy for B.Phil students.