Richard Vernon is a Canadian academic and from 1981 he has been Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario.
His work The Career of Toleration: John Locke, Jonas Proast, and After was awarded the Canadian Political Science Association's C.B.
[1] His current work concerns the global and temporal contexts of justice.
In the global context, Professor Vernon is particularly concerned with the relationship between civic and cosmopolitan obligations.
In the temporal context, he continues to work on issues of historical redress, and is now exploring the idea of duties in relation to future generations.