MA, PhD Essex
Deputy Director of the Human Rights Centre, Director of Graduate Studies and Research Co-Ordinator, Human Rights Centre

Andrew Fagan is one of the Deputy Directors of the Human Rights Centre. He is the Director of Graduate Studies and co-research co-ordinator. He has broad, multidisciplinary teaching experience, having taught in four separate academic disciplines: philosophy, law, government and social anthropology, at the University of London and Essex University. His human rights teaching focuses upon the philosophical, political and cultural dimensions of human rights’ principles and practice. He is particularly interested in the philosophical foundations of human rights law, the relationship between cultural diversity and human rights, and that between religion and a respect for human rights principles. He is the author of The State of Human Rights Atlas (University of California Press, forthcoming 2010) He is also the author of numerous journal articles and chapters in scholarly editions. He is editor of Making Sense of Dying & Death (Rodopi, 2004) and co-editor of Human Rights and Capitalism: a Multidisciplinary Perspective on Globalisation (Edward Elgar, 2006). He regularly teaches medical ethics to medical professionals and has a long-standing interest in the development of human rights in the central Asian region and some republics of the former Soviet Union. His current projects include completing a book on human rights entitled Human Rights: Confronting Myths & Misunderstandings (Edward Elgar, forthcoming, 2009). He is writing another book which provides a critical examination of contemporary liberalism, entitled Demoralising Liberalism: T.W. Adorno and Contemporary Liberal Political Morality, (forthcoming). He is a member of an AHRC funded project examining Fairtrade and is a writing a chapter on the moral basis and scope of ethical consumerism to appear in an edited volume to be published by Princeton University Press. He is also editor of the Essex Internet Encyclopaedia of Human Rights.