PROF. RICHARD A. COHEN
Visiting from February to April, 2017
Professor of Jewish Thought Affiliated Professor, University of Haifa, Israel University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA Office: 701 Clemens Hall | Richard Cohen is Professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA. He is former chair of the Department of Jewish Thought, and also in the Department of Philosophy. His latest book is Out of Control: Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas (2016). He works in ethics and political philosophy, and specializes in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. |
PROF. ROBERT J. PEKKANEN
Visiting from May to July, 2017
Professor Adjunct Professor, Political Science Department | Robert Pekkanen is Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. He works in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and is also Adjunct Professor in both Political Science and Sociology Departments. |
PROF. ROBERT ELGIE
Visiting on July 2017
Professor of Department of Law and Government | Robert Elgie is the Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies. He gained a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oriel College, Oxford University in 1987. He graduated with a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics, in 1991. Since this time, he has published more than 40 articles in international refereed journals, as well as four single-authored monographs, two co-authored books, seven edited and co-edited books, and more than 30 book chapters. He is the editor of the journal French Politics. He is the Review Editor for the journal Government and Opposition. He is also the lead co-editor of the prestigious Oxford Handbook of French Politics to be published by Oxford University Press. He has received funding on four occasions from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, including a Senior Research Fellowship for 2009-2010 totalling ?107,308. He has supervised numerous PhD students to successful completion. Robert Elgie is well known for his work on semi-presidentialism and his definition of the concept has been adopted as the scientific standard. His most recent book on this topic is Semi-Presidentialism published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He has also published extensively on political leadership and French politics. His work has received considerable external recognition. Twice he has been asked to brief the UK Ambassador designate to France (Sir John Holmes in 2001 and Sir Peter Westmacott in 2007). His invited talks include presentations at the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania, the Economic Policy Research Foundation Of Turkey, the United Nations Institute for Social Development (Geneva), and Taiwan Thinktank. He is also a member of the network of experts on the Constitution Building Processes (CBP) Programme at International IDEA. In April 2012 he was formally asked to provide a briefing report on Constituent Assembly of Nepal's proposed system of government. In January 2013 he was asked to give an expert presentation to the Convention on the Constitution for the proposed reforms to the presidency of Ireland. |