Assumed to be having debates in the confines of the ivory tower, legal and political theorists tend to get a bit of a bad rap... This episode seeks to turn this assumption on its head, as LLB V student Juliette Marchant talks to Associate Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar about the value of theory in grappling with issues of injustice and promoting the representation of diverse worldviews.
Dr Ashwini Vasanthakumar is an Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Legal and Political Philosophy at Queen’s University in Canada. Her research explores questions of political authority, membership and obligation. In June/July 2023, she visited the University of Sydney as the inaugural George Flannery Visiting Fellow, during which she worked closely with the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence.