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 [email protected] or follow it on X (@forumplp).
The First PLP Graduate Conference
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 conferenceThe 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.
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.
- Pía Chible Co-Chair
- Thomas Bullemore Co-Chair
- Talita Ferrantelli Co-Chair
- Anita Semerani Comms Director
- Shasha Sun Social Media Manager
- Raja Venkata Krishna Dandamudi Institutional Heads’ Manager
- Ruth Chang University of Oxford
- Matthew Kramer University of Cambridge
- Massimo Renzo King’s College London
- Lea Ypi London School of Economics
- Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco University of Surrey
- Noam Gur Queen Mary University of London
- Ulrike Heuer University College London
- Kenneth Ehrenberg University of Surrey
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.
University of Oxford
- Ruth Chang
- Timothy Endicott
- Dori Kimel
- Leah Trueblood
- Tom Adams
- Adam Perry
- Nick Barber
- Julie Dickson
- Hayley Hooper
- Sandy Steel
- Barbara Havelková
- Kate Greasley
- Cécile Fabre
- Roger Crisp
- Thomas Sinclair
- Julian Savulescu
- Alex Kaiserman
- Paul Billingham
- David Miller
- Cécile Laborde
- Paul Lodge
- Teresa Bejan
- John Zerilli
- Paul Craig
- John Broome
- Horst Eidenmüller
- Giovanni De Gregorio
- Jonathan Herring
- Hasan Dindjer
- David Enoch
- Zeynep Pamuk
University of Cambridge
King’s College London
London School of Economics and Political Science
- Lea Ypi (Government)
- Tom Poole (Law)
- Kai Spiekermann (Government)
- Paul Kelly (Government)
- Katrin Flikschuh (Government)
- Leigh Jenco (Government)
- Lewis Ross (Philosophy)
- Federico Picinali (Law)