Ashwini Vasanthakumar

I am a political and legal theorist with research interests in political obligation and authority, migration, and the ethics of oppression. 

I hold an AB from Harvard, an MA from Toronto, a JD from Yale Law School, and a DPhil from Oxford, where I studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar. I am currently an Associate Professor and Queen's National Scholar in Legal & Political Philosophy at Queen's Law School in Canada. 

I previously worked at King's College London, the University of York, University College, Oxford, and Jindal Global Law School. 

My first book, The Ethics of Exile, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. I am working on two books: on victims' duties in the face of their oppression, and on the ethics of being an immigrant.