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Ben Laurence

Human Rights
Instructional Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies

Ben Laurence is Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division and the Division of Social Sciences. He is the Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies for the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

Professor Laurence’s research focuses on big-picture questions about the relation of political philosophy to agency, history, and change. He works on the philosophy of human rights, labor rights, racial justice, and Kant’s political philosophy. 

He is the author of Agents of Change: Political Philosophy in Practice. His work has appeared, among other places, in The Journal of Political Philosophy, Philosopher’s Imprint, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research