Cécile Laborde FBA is a professor of political theory at the University of Oxford.
Since 2017, she has held the Nuffield Chair of Political Theory and in 2013 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Her research focusses on republicanism, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and global justice.
[1][2] She has held positions at University of Exeter, King's College London, and University College London (UCL), including as Professor of Political Theory in the School of Public Policy at UCL from 2009 to 2017.
From 2012 to 2016, she was the principal investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) project entitled "Is religion special?