Amanda Greene

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CSLS Visiting Scholar
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Amanda Greene is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University College London, which she joined in 2015. At UCL she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in legal and political philosophy, as well as contributing to the core courses in the PPE Program and the European Social and Political Studies Program. Her research examines the nature of legitimate political authority, especially as it relates to democracy and political realism. She also writes about free speech, human rights, the morality of markets, and Plato’s political philosophy. Her work has been published in Law and Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy, and Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Her current project is a book manuscript entitled The Morality of Power: Legitimacy in Politics, Business, and Civil Society, under contract with Oxford University PressShe received her Ph.D. at Stanford University, M.Phil. at Oxford University, and B.A. at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has held research fellowships at the University of Chicago Law School, Princeton University’s Center for Human Values and the James Madison Program, and the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. Before entering academia, she worked as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. She also worked as a development advisor for non-profit and civil society organizations in India and Australia.