Philosophy, Law & PoliticsUniversity of Oxford
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Graduate network

PLP Graduate Forum

The Philosophy, Law & Politics Graduate Forum is a network of doctoral candidates, early-career researchers, and established academics working in legal, moral, and political philosophy across seven institutions in Southern England: the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Surrey, the London School of Economics & Political Science, King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London, and University College London.

The Forum gives graduate students a serious, friendly setting in which to present and discuss work in progress, and it draws researchers across these institutions into a shared conversation in legal, moral, and political theory. It is run by a Student Executive Committee and a Faculty Oversight Committee, with members from each institution.

To get in touch, write to the Forum at plpgraduateforum@gmail.com or follow it on X (@forumplp).

Participants at the first PLP Graduate Conference, outside the venue
Inaugural conference

The First PLP Graduate Conference

25–26 June 2026

In June 2026 the Forum met in person for the first time, for two days of graduate papers and discussion at Balliol and Wadham Colleges, with keynote lectures by Professor Sarah Buss and Professor Samuel Scheffler.

See the conference

The seminar series

Through the year the Forum runs a seminar series in which a graduate student presents work in progress and receives responses from an academic commentator and a student commentator. Its most recent sessions:

The Forum also hosts PLP Conversations, round-table discussions that bring several established scholars together on a pressing theme.

Browse the full seminar archive

People

The Forum is run by a Student Executive Committee and a Faculty Oversight Committee, with members from each institution. It is currently chaired by Pía Chible, Thomas Bullemore, and Talita Ferrantelli.

Student Executive Committee
Faculty Oversight Committee

Academics committed to being involved

A wider circle of scholars across the seven member institutions have committed to taking part in the Forum, joining its seminars and conversations and commenting on graduate work.