Dr David McGrogan

My main interest is the political philosophy and sociology of human rights law. I also run the International Research Network on Critical Theory and Conservative Thought, a global, interdisciplinary group of scholars aiming to combine the insights of critical theory and conservative philosophy so as to find new things to say about our predicament.

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• Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion, McGrogan, D. 28 Apr 2021
• The Population and the Individual: The Human Rights Audit as the Governmentalization of Global Human Rights Governance, McGrogan, D. 21 Jan 2019, In: International Journal of Constitutional Law
• The Problem of Causality in International Human Rights Law, McGrogan, D. Jul 2016, In: International and Comparative Law Quarterly
• Anti-individual morality in the international human rights system, McGrogan, D. 1 Jun 2022, In: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
• Measuring Human Rights Performance in the UK: Liberalism, Communitarianism, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s ‘Drunkard’s Search’, McGrogan, D. 26 Jul 2023, Comparative Legal Metrics, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill

• Makaela Fehlhaber Towards legal certainty: An analysis and critique of how fragmentation has informed the development of modern causation in international law Start Date: 01/10/2025
• Sorcha Murphy-Kinder How Does Structural Violence from Colonisation and Occupation Contribute to the Limitations of International Criminal Law in Protecting the People of Palestine? Start Date: 19/11/2024
• Ludmilla Valente Viana Silva Towards a Transformative Legal Framework on Brazil’s Oil And Gas Governance Through a Gender Sensitive FPIC Start Date: 01/10/2025

• English Literature BA (Hons)
• Law LLM
• Law PhD
• Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA)