Cécile Fabre (born 1971) is a French

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, serving as professor of philosophy at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. Since 2014 she has been a senior research fellow at

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, Oxford. Her research focuses on

political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

, the ethics of war,

bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, med ...

, and theories of justice.

Early life

Fabre was born on 2 February 1971 in

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, France. From 1989 to 1992, she studied at

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

. She graduated with a

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(BA) degree in 1992. She then moved to England to study

at the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

and completed a

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(MA) degree in 1993. From 1993, she undertook

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study in politics at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. Her

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was G. A. Cohen and she completed her

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(DPhil) degree in 1997.

Career and honours

Fabre served as

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from March 2018 to March 2019. She was elected a

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(FBA) in 2011.

Selected works

* * * * * *Fabre, Cécile (2018). ''Economic Statecraft: Human Rights, Sanctions and Conditionality''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. . *

References

External links

* * Personal websit

* Tw
Podcast Interviews
with ''

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'' (2011 ''&'' 2016).
Print Interview with Richard Marshall
of '' 3:AM Magazine'' (2012).
Print Interview with Gary Cutting
''

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Opinionator'' (2015). 21st-century French philosophers Political philosophers French women philosophers Living people 1971 births 21st-century English philosophers Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Alumni of the University of York Alumni of the University of Oxford {{France-academic-bio-stub