Christopher J. Finlay is a Professor in Political Theory at Durham University and currently holds a Leverlhulme Major Research Fellowship (2017-2019). He previously held appointments at Trinity College Dublin, NUI Galway, University College Dublin and the University of Birmingham, and was British Academy Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow, 2010-11. He teaches and writes on international political theory, particularly just war theory, terrorism and the ethics of political violence, and on the history of political thought. His most recent book, Terrorism and the Right to Resist: a Theory of Just Revolutionary War, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.
Experience
2017–present
Professor in Political Theory, Durham University
2015–2017
Reader in Political Theory, University of Birmingham
2011–2015
Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham
2007–2011
Lecturer, University of Birmingham
Education
2000
Trinity College Dublin, PhD Modern History
1996
Trinity College Dubli, BA History and Political Science
Grants and Contracts
2017
The Subject of Legitimate Violence (Major Research Fellowship 2017-2019)
Role:
Principal Investigator
Funding Source:
Leverhulme Trust
2010
Terrorism and the Right to Resist (BA Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship 2010-2011)