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Daniel McLoughlin
Senior Lecturer
PhD (UNSW) BaLLB (Hons 1) (Macquarie)
Contact details
Brief overview
Daniel is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from UNSW and a Bachelor of Arts/Law from Macquarie University. Before joining the University of New South Wales, he worked as a lecturer in the Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide.
Daniel is a legal theorist working in the critical and continental traditions of thought. He has published on sovereignty, political ontology, government, and political crises, with a particular emphasis on the work of Giorgio Agamben and Carl Schmitt. His other research interests include Marxist state theory, the politics and theory of human rights, public law theory, and the impact of neo-liberalism on the state. He is currently completing a book manuscript on Agamben's legal and political thought.
Areas of expertise
Legal theory: in particular, continental philosophy, theories of human rights, public law theory, and marxist state theory.
Centre
Research supervision
Kim White, ''Turning in the widening gyre': maintaining and dismantling Agamben's Providential Machine in American Renaissance and late-capitalist literature.'
Janet Hill, 'Towards a Marxist Critique of Human Rights in a Neoliberal Age'
Christian Terrazas, 'Law, Morality and the Foreign Law Debate.'
Grants
He was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UNSW in 2013.