Cécile Laborde

Cécile Laborde is Professor of Political Theory at the University of London.

A graduate of the IEP and holder of a doctorate from Oxford, her work has focused on French and English theories of citizenship, unionism, the state, pluralism, secularism, tolerance, liberalism and republicanism.
state, pluralism, secularism, tolerance, liberalism and republicanism.

Her books include : Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France,1900-1925 (Macmillan 2000), Republicanism and Political Theory(Oxford Blackwell 2007),
Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy in Political Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Liberalism’s religion (Harvard University Press, 2017) numerous articles in English and French.