Cécile Laborde is the Nuffield Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
She has published extensively on republicanism, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and citizenship and global justice.
Before she joined Oxford in January 2017, Cécile Laborde was a Professor of Political Theory at University College London. After studying political science in France, Cécile Laborde obtained a DPhil from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, in 1996. She has held permanent posts in political theory at the University of Exeter and King's College, London. In 2007, she was Associate Professor to the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She spent the 2010-11 academic year in Princeton, as a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study. She was the director of UCL’s Religion and Political Theory Centre, which was funded by a European Research Council (ERC) personal grant.
She has published 5 monographs and has written articles in major journals of political science and political philosophy. She is notably the author of Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France (2000), Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy in Political Philosophy (2008) and Liberalism’s Religion (2017).
Cécile Laborde is the convenor of the Nuffield political theory workshop.
Publications
Journal Articles
2023
Audard, C. and Laborde, C. (2023) “Comprendre la « laïcité à la française » : malentendus, mythes et réalités. Introduction”, The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville, 44(2), pp. 7–12.
Available at https://doi.org/10.3138/ttr.44.2.7
Laborde, C. and Rose, J. (2023) “Introduction”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 26(2), pp. 228–234.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2023.2133822
2022
Laborde, C. (2022) “Sur la théorie politique au Royaume-Uni”, Raisons politiques, N° 84(4), pp. 97–100.
Available at https://doi.org/10.3917/rai.084.0097
2021
LABORDE, C. (2021) “On the Parity between Religious and Secular Reasons”, Social Theory and Practice: an international and interdisciplinary journal of social philosophy [Preprint].
Laborde, C. (2021) “SECULARISM: LETTER FROM LONDON”, ESPRIT, (6), p. 21 - +.
2020
LABORDE, C. (2020) “Minimal Secularism: Lessons for, and from, India”, American Political Science Review [Preprint].
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000775
Laborde, C. (2020) “Can Religious Establishment be Liberal Enough?1”, Studies in Christian Ethics, 33(2), pp. 215–223.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946819897172
2019
Laborde, C. (2019) “Replies to Critics”, Secular Studies, 1(1), pp. 153–160.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1163/25892525-00101011
LABORDE, C. (2019) “Intelligibility, Moral Loss and Injustice”, Journal of Applied Philosophy [Preprint].
Blijdenstein, A. and Laborde, C. (2019) “Interview with Cécile laborde”, Krisis, (1), pp. 79–86.
2018
Laborde, C. (2018) “Comment peut-on être laïque ?”, Esprit, Septembre(9), pp. 107–118.
Available at https://doi.org/10.3917/espri.1809.0107
Laborde, C. (2018) “Three cheers for liberal modesty”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, pp. 1–17.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2018.1487228
Laborde, C. (2018) “Abortion, marriage and cognate problems”, American Journal of Jurisprudence, 63(1), pp. 33–48.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/ajj/auy007
Laborde, C. (2018) “Religious Freedom, US Law, and Liberal Political Theory”, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 86(1), pp. 241–243.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfx102
Laborde, C. (2018) “The Evanescence of Neutrality”, POLITICAL THEORY, 46(1), pp. 99–105.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591717696022
2016
Laborde, C. and Ronzoni, M. (2016) “What is a Free State? Republican Internationalism and Globalisation”, Political Studies, 64(2), pp. 279–296.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12190
2015
Laborde, C. (2015) “Religion in the Law: The Disaggregation Approach”, Law and Philosophy [Preprint].
Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-015-9236-y
2014
Boucher, F. and Laborde, C. (2014) “Why tolerate conscience?”, Criminal Law and Philosophy, 10(3), pp. 493–514.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-014-9325-2
Laborde, C. (2014) “Three theses about political theology: some comments on Seyla Benhabib’s ‘return of political theology’”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 17(6), pp. 689–696.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2014.930782
Laborde, C. (2014) “Equal Liberty, Nonestablishment, and Religious Freedom”, Legal Theory [Preprint].
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325213000141
2013
LABORDE, C. (2013) “Political Liberalism and Religion: On Separation and Establishment*”, Journal of Political Philosophy, 21(1), pp. 67–86.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9760.2011.00404.x
2012
Laborde, C. (2012) “State paternalism and religious dress code”, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 10(2), pp. 398–410.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/mor059
2010
Laborde, C. (2010) “Republicanism and Global Justice”, European Journal of Political Theory, 9(1), pp. 48–69.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885109349404
2009
Laborde, C. (2009) “Républicanisme critique vs républicanisme conservateur : repenser les « accommodements raisonnables »”, Critique internationale, n° 44(3), pp. 19–33.
Available at https://doi.org/10.3917/crii.044.0019
2005
Laborde, C. (2005) “Secular Philosophy and Muslim Headscarves in Schools*”, Journal of Political Philosophy, 13(3), pp. 305–329.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9760.2005.00225.x
2002
LABORDE, C. (2002) “From Constitutional to Civic Patriotism”, British Journal of Political Science, 32(4), pp. 591–612.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123402000248
Laborde, C. (2002) “The Reception of John Rawls in Europe”, European Journal of Political Theory, 1(2), pp. 133–146.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885102001002002
2001
LABORDE, C. (2001) “The Culture(s) of the Republic”, Political Theory, 29(5), pp. 716–735.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591701029005006
2000
Laborde, C. (2000) “The Concept of the State in British and French Political Thought”, Political Studies, 48(3), pp. 540–557.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.00274
1996
Laborde, C. (1996) “Pluralism, syndicalism and corporatism: Léon Duguit and the crisis of the state (1900–1925)”, History of European Ideas, 22(3), pp. 227–244.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(96)00003-4
LABORDE, C. (no date) “Reply to Quong, Patten, Miller and Waldron”, Criminal Law and Philosophy [Preprint].
LABORDE, C. (no date) “Reply to Quong, Patten, Miller and Waldron”, Criminal Law and Philosophy [Preprint].
LABORDE, C. and Erez, L. (no date) “Cosmopolitan Patriotism as Civic Ideal”, American Journal of Political Science [Preprint].
LABORDE, C. (no date) “Rescuing Liberalism from Critical Religion”, Journal of the American Academy of Religion [Preprint].
LABORDE, C. (no date) “Being Free, Feeling Free Race, Gender and Republican Domination”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society [Preprint].
LABORDE, C. (no date) “Disagreement, Equal Respect and the Boundaries of Liberalism”, Review of Politics [Preprint].
Books
2017
Laborde, C. (2017) Liberalism’s Religion. Harvard University Press.
2008
Laborde, C. (2008) Critical Republicanism. Oxford University Press (OUP).
Negotiating Religion, Cross-disciplinary perspectives (no date). Taylor & Francis.
Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315597676
Chapters
2024
LABORDE, C. (2024) “Rethinking Race and Religion with Rawls and Modood”, in T. Seeley, V. Uberoi, and N. Meer (eds.) The Resilience of Multiculturalism. Essays in Honour of Tariq Modood. Edinburgh University Press.
2023
LABORDE, C. and Sandven, H. (2023) “The Coalition Problem”, in F. Lovett and M. Sellers (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Oxford University Press.
2021
LABORDE, C. (2021) “Secularism”, in R. Bellamy and J. King (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Law. CUP.
2018
Laborde, C. (2018) “Toleration and laïcité”, in The culture of toleration in diverse societies, pp. 161–178.
Laborde, C. (2018) “Egalitarian Justice and Religious Exemptions”, in The Conscience Wars. Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 109–126.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316780053.005
2017
Laborde, C. (2017) “Equal liberty, nonestablishment, and religious freedom”, in Plight and Fate of Children during and Following Genocide, pp. 33–76.
Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315244624
Laborde, C. (2017) “Liberal Neutrality, Religion and the Good”, in Politics, Religion and Political Theology. Springer Nature, pp. 93–111.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1082-2_7
2016
Laborde, C. (2016) “Political Liberalism, Separation and Establishment”, in The Social Equality of Religion or Belief. Springer Nature, pp. 183–199.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137501950_11
Laborde, C. (2016) “Negotiating religion in constitutional politics and political philosophy”, in Negotiating Religion: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, pp. 65–76.
Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315597676
2015
Laborde, C. (2015) “Republicanism and global justice: A sketch”, in Republican Democracy: Liberty, Law and Politics, pp. 276–301.
2014
Laborde, C. (2014) “Republicanism, relational equality and global justice”, in Republicanism in Northeast Asia, pp. 70–82.
Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315797427
Laborde, C. (2014) “Equal liberty, non-establishment and religious freedom”, in Democracy, Law and Religious Pluralism in Europe: Secularism and Post-Secularism, pp. 21–45.
Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758800
2013
Laborde, C. (2013) “Justificatory secularism”, in Religion in a Liberal State. Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 164–186.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107323674.008
2011
Laborde, C. and Goldhammer, A. (2011) “Citizenship”, in The French Republic: History, Values, Debates, pp. 136–144.
2009
Laborde, C. (2009) “Secularism and fair treatment for Muslims”, in Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict, pp. 131–148.
Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203869444
Laborde, C. (2009) “Secularism and fair treatment for Muslims”, in Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict, pp. 131–148.
Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203869444-14
2004
Laborde, C. (2004) “Republicanism and global justice: A sketch”, in Republican Democracy: Liberty, Law and Politics, pp. 276–301.
LABORDE, C. and Laegaard, S. (no date) “Liberal Nationalism and Symbolic Religious Establishment”, in G. Gustavsson and D. MILLER (eds.) Liberal Nationalism and its Critics.
LABORDE, C. (no date) “Miller’s Minarets
Religion, Culture, Domination”, in Zofia Stemplowska, Daniel Butt & Sarah Fine (eds.) Political Philosophy, Here and Now: Essays in Honour of David Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
LABORDE, C. (no date) “Legal Toleration and Rights to Do Wrong”, in.
Conference Papers
2019
Laborde, C. (2019) “Introduction”, in The Review of Politics. Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 643–645.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034670519000470
Laborde, C. (2019) “Reply: Disagreement, equal respect, and the boundaries of liberalism”, in Review of Politics.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670519000573
2014
Laborde, C. (2014) “Dworkin’s Freedom of religion without god”, in Boston University Law Review, pp. 1255–1271.
2011
Laborde, C. (2011) “The Danish Cartoon Controversy and the Challenges of Multicultural Politics”, in Perspectives on Politics. Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 603–605.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592711002817
preprint
2017
Laborde, C. (2017) “Abortion, Marriage and Cognate Problems”, SSRN Electronic Journal.
Available at https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3433377
