Dr. Matthew Hamilton Appointed as Assistant Professor in Human Rights

Mon. Jul. 1, 2024

We are excited to congratulate Dr. Matthew Hamilton on his appointment as an Assistant Professor in Human Rights! Dr. Hamilton joined the Human Rights program as an Instructor in August 2023.

Dr. Hamilton is a political theorist whose primary areas of expertise are contemporary democratic, legal, and critical theory. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto. Dr. Hamilton's teaching interests include the history of ideas/political thought, legal/constitutional theory, human rights, genocide studies, post-colonialism, global justice, feminism, public policy, and public administration.

His work includes his dissertation and book project, Praxis and Critique: On Fugitive Politics, and his most recent publication, co-authored with Cody Trojan, is the chapter “Sovereignty as Responsibility” (Rousseau Today, Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). Dr. Hamilton's current writing projects also include a retrospective examination of Jurgen Habermas' discourse theory of law since its publication thirty years ago; developing a proposal for a Critical Theory of Human Rights by working through the connecting ideas and tensions between the diverse traditions of legal positivism (law), radical democracy, and critical theory; and an article that examines the relations between morality, democracy, and law in the work of Fuller, Hart, and Waldron towards offering a critical assessment of the existing international human rights law.

This fall, he will be teaching two Human Rights courses: Introduction to Global Citizenship (HR/IDS-1200) and Concepts and Conventions in Human Rights (HR-2100).

On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students of Global College, we extend our congratulations to Dr. Hamilton and warmly welcome him to his new role!