Graduate network

Student Committee

The Forum is run by graduate students. A Student Executive Committee organises its seminars, conversations, and annual conference, and an Institutional Head coordinates the Forum at each of the seven member institutions.

Student Executive Committee (2025–2026)

Pía Chible

Co-Chair

University of Oxford, Faculty of Law · Doctoral student

Magister Juris, Oxford; LLB, Universidad de Chile.

Interests Moral, legal and political philosophy; constitutional theory; administrative law theory.

My research examines the nature of the decisions reached by state administration. My aim is to show that the distinctiveness of administrative law relates to the specific type of reasoning entailed in administrative decision-making. My account draws on the literature of practical reason, philosophy of action, political philosophy and virtue ethics, as well as constitutional and administrative law theory. My DPhil is supervised by Dr Hasan Dindjer.

Thomas Bullemore

Co-Chair

University of Oxford, Faculty of Law · Doctoral student

MPhil, Oxford; LLB, Universidad de Chile.

Interests Metaethics and legal philosophy.

I address a range of puzzles facing contemporary normative realism — from inconsistencies in hyperintensional accounts of proposition and property individuation, through underdetermination worries in the metasemantics of normative predicates, to concerns about methodological overfitting driven by intuition-sensitive theorising. My work is supervised by David Enoch and Timothy Williamson.

Talita Ferrantelli

Co-Chair

London School of Economics, Philosophy · Doctoral student

MA Philosophy and MSc Political Theory, University of Amsterdam; BA Law, Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

Interests Social epistemology, and its interactions with legal and political philosophy.

In my doctoral work I explore questions concerning the legal and social epistemology of sexual offences. I work under the supervision of Lewis Ross, Federico Picinali and Liam Kofi Bright.

Anita Semerani

Communications Director & UCL Institutional Head

University College London, Philosophy · Doctoral student

MA, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; MPhil, UCL.

Interests Philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, ethics, philosophy of law.

I work on issues at the intersection of philosophy of mind and ethics — in particular questions in the philosophy of action, the theory of reasons and rationality, and moral psychology — with broader interests in political and legal philosophy. My PhD is supervised by Ulrike Heuer, John Hyman, and Lucy O’Brien.

Shasha Sun

Social Media Manager

University of Oxford, Faculty of Law · Doctoral student

MPhil, Oxford; Master of Law (Legal Theory), China University of Political Science and Law; Bachelor of Law, Shandong University of Science and Technology.

Interests Legal and political philosophy.

My research focuses on the justification of political authority — when it is legitimate. I explore the conditions under which political authority has valid normative power to change our normative situations, and the limits on exercising that power, in order to understand better in virtue of what we have reasons to obey the state. My DPhil thesis is supervised by Dr Dori Kimel and Professor David Enoch.

Raja Venkata Krishna Dandamudi

Institutional Heads’ Manager

University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law · Doctoral student

LLM (Legal Theory), New York University; BA LLB (Hons), Jindal Global Law School.

Interests Jurisprudence; political philosophy; legal and constitutional history; history of political thought; history of the British Empire.

My PhD is a historical and jurisprudential study of constitutionalism in colonial India. It asks why an unjust political order such as the colonial state felt compelled to respect the rule of law and accommodate constitutionalism, and how subjects used that compulsion to resist repression, protect their rights and interests, and pursue their political aims. I am supervised by Dr Lars Vinx.

Institutional Heads

Javier Gallego

Oxford Institutional Head & Conference Coordinator

University of Oxford, Faculty of Law · Doctoral student

LLM (Legal Theory), New York University; LLB, Universidad de Chile.

Interests Moral, legal and political philosophy; constitutional theory; legal ethics.

My current work is about manipulation and the law: I am developing an account of inter-personal and institutional manipulation and criteria for evaluating the moral status of legal manipulation. I am also interested in the philosophy of normativity, general jurisprudence, constitutional rights (especially liberal rights), and animal rights.

Cheng-Chia Tung

King’s College London Institutional Head

King’s College London, Department of Political Economy · Doctoral student

MSc International Political Theory, University of Edinburgh; BA Diplomacy and French, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan.

My research focuses on military and economic confrontations, and on the governance of interstate coalitions such as military alliances and trade blocs. I currently examine the ethical dimensions of coalition membership, and the normative questions of including or excluding non-democratic states. I am supervised by Dr Mollie Gerver, Dr Carmen Pavel, and Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard.

Benjamín Ruiz García

University of Surrey Institutional Head

University of Surrey, School of Law · Doctoral student

LLM Law and Philosophy, UCLA; LLB, ITAM.

Interests Jurisprudence; eliminativism; metaphysics; law and economics; sports as normative systems.

My research puts forward an account of legal institutions within the theoretical framework of the New Legal Anti-Positivism. My PhD thesis is supervised by Kenneth Ehrenberg.

Stephen Watson

University of Cambridge Institutional Head

University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law · Doctoral student

Juris Doctor, University of Melbourne; LLM, University of Cambridge; MMus, Hochschule für Musik Detmold; MMus and MusB (Hons), University of Canterbury.

Interests Legal and political philosophy; law and religion; medical ethics; discrimination law; human rights law.

I am writing a doctoral thesis supervised by Professor Matthew Kramer and Dr Kirsty Hughes.

Past committees

2024–2025

Chairs: Pía Chible (Oxford, Law) and Talita Ferrantelli (LSE, Philosophy)
Communications Director: Maria Teresa Cotrufo (KCL, Law)
Social Media Manager: Shasha Sun (Oxford, Law)
Secretary / Treasurer: Luiza Tavares da Motta (QMUL, Law)
Institutional Heads’ Manager: Raja Dandamudi (Cambridge, Law)
Institutional Heads: Juliet Paiva (Oxford, Politics), Ryan Kendall (Oxford, Philosophy), Raja Dandamudi (Cambridge, Law), Dulyaphab Chaturongkul (KCL, Politics), Armando Romero Muñoz (Surrey, Law), Max Emmett (UCL, Politics)

2023–2024

Chairs: Jan Wasserziehr (LSE, Politics) and Talita Ferrantelli (LSE, Philosophy)
Communications Director: Maria Teresa Cotrufo (KCL, Law)
Social Media Manager: Pía Chible (Oxford, Law)
Secretary / Treasurer: Luiza Tavares da Motta (QMUL, Law)
Institutional Heads’ Manager: Raja Dandamudi (Cambridge, Law)
Institutional Heads: Raja Dandamudi (Cambridge, Law), Dulyaphab Chaturongkul (KCL, Politics), Lauren Bursey (LSE, Law), Pía Chible (Oxford, Law), Fernando Quintana Carreño (QMUL, Law), Armando Romero Muñoz (Surrey, Law), Max Emmett (UCL, Politics)

2022–2023

Co-Chairs: Shree Agnihotri (LSE) and Filippa Ronquist (UCL)
Communications Director: Anna Stelle (UCL)
Social Media Manager: Jingzhi Chen (Oxford)
Archivist / Secretary: Angelica Cocoma Ricaurte (Oxford)
Institutional Heads: Ira Chadha-Sridhar (Cambridge), Anna Milioni (KCL), Vincent Harting (LSE), Javier Gallego Saade (Oxford), Penny Oderberg (Queen Mary), Armando Romero Muñoz (Surrey), Hannah McHugh (UCL)

2021–2022

Co-Chairs: Ira Chadha-Sridhar (Cambridge) and Sonia Cruz Dávila (KCL)
Co-Vice-Chairs: Anna Milioni (KCL) and Filippa Ronquist (UCL)
Communications Director: Vincent Harting (LSE)
Social Media Manager: Jingzhi Chen (Oxford)
Archivist / Secretary: Chantal Frindall (Surrey) and Angelica Cocoma Ricaurte (Oxford)
Institutional Heads: Forest Yu (Cambridge), Anna Milioni (KCL), Stephanie Classmann (LSE), Calvin Chan then Javier Gallego Saade (Oxford), Penny Oderberg (Queen Mary), Armando Romero Muñoz (Surrey), Filippa Ronquist (UCL)