1 Michael I. Blake Department of Philosophy University of Washington 345 Savery Hall, Box 353350 Seattle, WA 98195 miblake@uw.edu Employment: Sept, 2012 present: Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy, University of Washington Director, Program on Values in Society, University of Washington (2007 present) 2005 2012: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy, University of Washington 2002 2005: Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Acting Director of Graduate Fellowships, Center for Ethics and the Professions (2004-2005) Visiting Professor, Center for Ethics and the Professions (2002-2003) Faculty Associate, Center for Ethics and the Professions Faculty Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights 2001-2002: Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow, Center for Human Values, Princeton University. 1998-2002: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University. Education: Stanford University, Department of Philosophy, 1993-1998: Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1998. Dissertation: Advisor: Reading Committee: "Social Justice and National Borders." Debra Satz Susan Okin, Chris Bobonich, Lori Gruen Yale Law School, 1995-1996: Editor, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, vol. 8(1)
2 Co-organizer, Lowenstein Human Rights Project group on the former Yugoslavia University College, University of Toronto, 1989-1993: Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy, 1993. University College Medal for best degree in Arts, 1993 Areas of Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy, Global Justice, Ethics and Public Policy, Immigration Areas of Competence: Normative Ethics, Feminism, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Law Books: 2. Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration? with Gillian Brock (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). 1. Justice and Foreign Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). This book is the subject of upcoming symposia in Law and Philosophy and in Ethics and International Affairs. Harvard University is also hosting a small conference on the book in February of 2015, with contributions from Arthur Applbaum, Seyla Benhabib, Michael Ignatieff, Mathias Risse, and John Tasioulas. Book Project: Talking Philosophy. This volume collects the dialogues I have done (with Arthur Ripstein, Simone Chambers, and others) for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over the last five years. The CBC is currently seeking a publisher for the volume. Current Projects: Justice, Migration, and Mercy. Book proposal, to be written summer 2015. The focus of the book is on the question of how justice constrains legitimate migration policy and on how the notion of minimal decency might lead to criticism of even justified exclusion. The volume will range over the open borders debate, the jurisdictional theory of immigration exclusion, the rights of the undocumented, associative rights, and the rights of the child to a home. I hope to write this book in the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic years. Response papers to symposia on Justice and Foreign Policy in Law and Philosophy (2014) and in Ethics and International Affairs (2015).
3 A paper on territoriality and liberal justice, to be presented at the Eastern Division APA in 2014, in a symposium with Anna Stilz and Avery Kolers. Articles: 50. On Walter Sulzbach s Some Basic Problems of a League of Nations, forthcoming in Ethics 49. Putin manipulates international norms for imperial ambitions, Opinions, Al Jazeera America, July 23, 2014. Available at http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/7/ukraine-putinrussianseparatistsinternationallaw.html 48. "Migration as Right and as Remedy," Zeitschrift für Mensenricht 2 (2014) 15-30. 47. "Owning Alexander: Memory, Migration, and Pride," requested for Cornelius Holtorf, Andreas Pantazatos, and Geoffrey Scarre, eds., Cultural Heritage, Ethics, and Contemporary Migrations (London: Routledge, forthcoming) 46. Global distributive justice: the statist view, requested for David Held and Pietro Maffetone, eds., International Political Theory Today (Cambridge: Polity Press, forthcoming) 45. "Justice Across Borders," in Serena Olsaretti, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) 44. Shame, Memory, and the Unspeakable: The International Criminal Court as Damnatio Memoriae, 50 San Diego Law Review (2013) 905-930. 40-43. Burdened societies, Immigration and emigration, Susan Okin, and Burdens of judgment, in Jon Mandle and David Reidy, ed., A Rawls Lexicon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) 39. "The Right to Exclude, 17(5) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2014) 521-537. 38. Social Membership and Territorial Rights, online symposium on Joseph Carens s The Ethics of Immigration, May 30, 2014. Available at http://crookedtimber.org/2014/05/30/the-ethics-of-immigration-symposiumsocial-membership-and-territorial-rights/ 37. Justice and jurisdiction: response to Sarah Song, forthcoming in NOMOS LVI: Migration, Immigration, and Emigration, ed. Jack Knight (New York: New York University Press, forthcoming) 36. Defending Dual Federalism: A Bad Idea, but Not Self-Defeating, NOMOS LV: Federalism and Subsididiarity, James E. Fleming and Jacob T. Levy, eds. (New York: New York University Press, 2014) 22-33.
4 35. The costs of war: justice, liability, and the Pottery Barn rule, in Don Scheid, ed., The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) 133-147. 34. "Secession, Self-Determination, and Dirty Hands," in Fernando Teson, ed., Theoretical Foundations of Self-Determination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) 33. Traditional Values' and Human Rights: Whose Values? Which Rights?" Cicero Foundation Great Debates Paper 13/06 (December 2013). Available at http://www.cicerofoundation.org/lectures/michael_blake_traditional_valuesx.p df 32. International Distributive Justice," with Patrick Taylor Smith, for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2013), available at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/international-justice/ 31. We Are All Cosmopolitans Now, in Gillian Brock, ed., Cosmopolitanism versus Non-cosmopolitanism: Critiques, Defenses, Reconceptualizations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 30. Immigration, Jurisdiction, and Exclusion, 41(2) Philosophy and Public Affairs 103-130 (Spring 2013). 29. The Moral Difference Made by International Law: The Case of Preventive Warfare, in Deen Chatterjee, ed., The Ethics of Preventive War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) 28. Immigration, Complicity, and Causality, in Rogers Smith, ed., Citizenship, Plural Citizenships, and Cosmopolitan Alternatives (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). 27. Immigration, Association, and Anti-Discrimination, 122 Ethics (July 2012) 1-13 26. Equality without documents: political justice and the right to amnesty, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 36 (2012) 99-122. 25. International Law and Global Justice, in Andrei Marmor, ed., The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law (Oxford: Routledge, 2012) 24. Global Distributive Justice: Why Political Philosophy Needs Political Science, 15 Annual Review of Political Science 121-136 (June 2012) 23. Coercion and Egalitarian Justice, 90(4) The Monist (2011) 22. Two Conceptions of Equality and Responsibility, with Mathias Risse. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 38 (2) (2008) 165-199.
5 21. Immigration and Political Equality, San Diego Law Review 45 (4) (Fall 2008) 963-980. Reprinted in Sharryn J. Aiden et al., eds., Immigration and Refugee Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 2d edition (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2014). 20. Immigration and Original Ownership of the Earth, with Mathias Risse, 23(1) Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, (2009) 133-167. 19. Tolerance and Theocracy: How Liberal States Should Think About Religious States, capstone essay for Journal of International Affairs 61(1) (Fall 2007) 1-17. 18. Migration, Territory, and Culture, with Mathias Risse, in Jesper Ryberg et al., eds., New Waves in Applied Ethics (London: Plagrave Macmillan, 2007) 17. Duties Across Borders: Why Should We Care About International Poverty? Harvard International Review, online edition, 2007. Available at www.harvardir.org/articles/1483 16. The Discriminating Shopper, San Diego Law Review 43 (3) (2007) 1017-1034. 15. Collateral Benefit, Social Philosophy and Policy 23 (2006) 218-230 14. Universal and Qualified Rights to Immigration, La Revue Ethique et Economique 4(1). Available at https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/3370/2006v4n1 _BLAKE.pdf?sequence=1 13. International Ethics, Stanford Online Encylopedia of Philosophy, available 2005-2013; replaced by International Distributive Justice. 12. Agonistic Democracy and Political Liberalism, in Steven Macedo and Melissa Williams, eds., NOMOS XLVI: Political Exclusion and Domination (New York: New York University Press, 2005). 11. Discretionary Immigration, Philosophical Topics, 2004 10. Moral Equality and Birthright Citizenship, in Steven Macedo and Iris Marion Young, eds., NOMOS XLIV: Child, Family and State (New York: New York University Press, 2003). 9. "Reciprocity, Stability, and Intervention: The Ethics of Disequilibrium," in Deen Chatterjee and Don Scheid, eds., Ethics and Foreign Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). 8. Language Death and Liberal Politics, in Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten, eds., Language Rights and Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
6 7. "Immigration," in The Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics, ed. Christopher Wellman and R. G. Frey (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003) 6. Diversity, Assimilation, and Survival, The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 12(2) (2002) 637-660. 5. Distributive Justice, State Coercion, and Autonomy, Philosophy and Public Affairs 30(3) (Summer 2001). Reprinted in Thomas Pogge and Darrel Mollendorf, eds., Global Justice: Seminal Essays (St. Paul: Paragon House, 2008). 4. Toleration and Reciprocity: Commentary on Martha Nussbaum and Henry Shue, Politics, Economics, and Philosophy 1(3) (2002) 325-335. 3. "Geeks and Monsters: Bias Crimes and Social Identity, 20 Law and Philosophy (2001) 121-139. 2. "Rights for People, Not for Cultures," Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress, August / September 2000, 50-53. Reprinted in The National Post, Toronto, August 18, 2000, A16; reprinted as "What Price Survival?" in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Australia, October 7, 2000, Spectrum section. 1. "International Criminal Adjudication and the Right to Punish," Public Affairs Quaterly 11(2) (April 1997) 203-215. Book Reviews: 9. Review of Joseph Carens, The Ethics of Immigration, forthcoming in Ethics and International Affairs 8. Review of Peter Higgins, Immigration Justice, forthcoming in Political Theory 7. Review of Kok-Chor Tan, Justice, Institutions, and Luck, forthcoming in Philosophical Review 6. Review of Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole, Debating the Ethics of Emigration, at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Available at http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/32280-debating-the-ethics-of-immigration-is-there-aright-to-exclude/ 5. Review of Seumas Miller s The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions, 121(4) Ethics (2011) 820-824. 4. Review of Joshua Cohen s The Moral Arc of the Universe, 26(2) Ethics and International Affairs (2011). Available at http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2012/the-arc-of-the-moraluniverse-and-other-essays-by-joshua-cohen/ 3. Review of Allan Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination, in Ethics, July 2007, 721-726.
7 2. Review of Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism:Ethics in a World of Strangers, and Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, in Ethics and International Affairs, 21(2) (2007) 259-261. Available at http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2007/identity-and-violence-theillusion-of-destiny-by-amartya-sen-and-cosmopolitanism-ethics-in-a-world-ofstrangers-by-kwame-anthony-appiah/ 1. Review of Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism: Hospitality, Sovereignty, and Democratic Iterations, for Notre Dame Online Philosophy Reviews, 2007. Available at http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=9543 Teaching Awards: 2001 Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Papers and Conferences: Anniversary conference for the anniversary of Princeton s University Center for Human Values, April 2015. Invited speaker on global justice, with Melissa Williams, Leif Wenar, and Debra Satz. Conference on Justice and Foreign Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, February 2015 Symposium on Territoriality, with Anna Stilz and Kok-Chor Tan, Eastern Division APA, December 2014 Invited paper, University of Virginia, Department of Philosophy, November 2014 Territorial rights: in defense of the naïve view, colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis, October 2014 Symposium on Human Rights, with Seyla Benhabib, American Policial Science Association Meeting, August 2014 Invited paper, roundtable on Joseph Carens s The Ethics of Immigration, Munk School of International Affairs, Toronto, 2014 (Unable to attend) Invited paper, Nathanson Centre Conference on Migration, Osgood Hall Law School, York University, 2014 (Unable to attend) Invited participant, Nomos conference on immigration, New Orleans, January 2013 Immigration, Jurisdiction, and Exclusion, Wilfred Laurier University, November 2012
8 Immigration, Jurisdiction, and Exclusion, University of Toronto, Centre for Ethics, November 2012 Secession, Self-Determination, and Dirty Hands, American Society of International Law, Legal Theory Interest Group, Washington D. C., October 2012 Invited presenter, NEH summer seminar organized by Christopher Heath Wellman and Andrew Altman, Washington University in St. Louis, June 2012 Equality without Documents, Nathanson Centre at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, April 2012 Immigration and Obligation, University of Colorado, April 2012 Commentary on Gillian Brock, Avigail Eisenberg, and Christine Straehele, Pacific Division APA, 2012 Commentary on Sotirios Barber, NOMOS panel, American Political Science Association, 2011 Author meets critics, Anna Stilz s Liberal Loyalty, American Political Science Association, 2011 Immigration and association, response to Kit Wellman, Kavka Prize session, Pacific APA, 2011 Liberal Adventurism, University of Pennsylvania, Winter 2009 Rawls, the Abolitionists, and International Justice, Central Division APA, Spring 2009. Discussion with Mathias Risse and Deen Chatterjee. Humanitarian Intervention, debate with David Reidy, Ideas Matter series, Oregon State University, February 2009. Tolerance and Theocracy, Department of Political Science, Yale University, October 2008 Rawls, the Abolitionists, and International Justice, University of Illinois, November 2008 Immigration and Political Equality, University of San Diego roundtable on immigration, April 2008 Liberal Internationalism and the Burdens of Judgment, invited presentation, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting (March 2008) Tolerance and Theocracy: How Liberal States Should Think of Religious States, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (Keynote address, Journal of International Affairs launch), December 2007
9 Political Liberalism Abroad, Program in Ethics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, October 2007 Invited speaker, University of Utah, April 2007 Invited speaker, University of Victoria, March 2007 Immigration and Responsibility, Immigration and National Identity Conference, Texas A&M University, February 2007 Political Liberalism Abroad, University of California at San Diego, January 2007 Political Liberalism Abroad, Stanford University, Global Justice Workshop, January 2007 Commentator on Joseph Wolff, Markets and Morals, Stanford University, September 2006 Excuses for Intervention, International Society for Justice Research, Humboldt University of Berlin, August 2006 Commentator on Phillipe van Parijs, Conference on Equality and the New Global Order, Harvard University, May 2006 The Discriminating Shopper, University of San Diego Law School Conference on Private Discrimination, April 2006 Excuses for Intervention, Invited contribution, Pacific APA, March 2006 Collateral Benefit, Mershon Center for International Affairs, The Ohio State University, March 2006 Cultural Survival and Assimilation, Ideas Matter lecture at Oregon State University, Februrary 2006 Collateral Benefit, GALA presentation at Boalt Hall Law School, University of California at Berkeley, December 2005 Commentator on David Reidy, Hate Crimes, Oppression, and Legal Theory, Pacific Division APA, March 2005 Commentator on Christopher Kutz, In Praise of Anemic Democracy, KSG Conference on Right to Rule (Safra Center for Ethics / Center for Public Leadership) March 2005 Commentator on Kelly Dawn Askin, Empowering Women through International Tribunals, Conference on Human Rights, Women and Public Policy Program, March 2005
10 Invited paper, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green University, October 2004 Invited commentary, Pacific APA, March 2004 Invited paper, University of Pennsylvania, Law and Philosophy Center, February 2004 Invited paper, Analytic Legal Theory Conference, Oxford University, May 2003 Invited paper, All Souls College, Oxford University, February 2003 Invited paper, University of Western Ontario, February 2003 Invited paper, Dartmouth University, January 2003 Discretionary Immigration, Carr Center for Human Rights, November 2002 Invited paper, University of Toronto Law School, January 2002 Commentator on James Tully, APSA Conference on Domination and Exclusion, December 2001 Asymmetrical Recognition, Fellows Seminar, Princeton University, November 2001 Invited paper, Princeton University, Political Philosophy Colloquium, November 2001 Commentator on Rainer Baubock, Princeton Program in Ethics and Public Affairs, October 2001 Commentator on Martha Nussbaum and Henry Shue, Central Division APA meeting, May 2001 Diversity, Survival, and Assimilation, invited paper, Stanford Law School colloquium on distributive justice, March 2001 Toleration and Reciprocity, invited paper, Columbia University Center for Law and Philosophy, Conference on Human Rights and Global Economic Justice, March 2001 Invited paper, University of San Diego School of Law Conference on Illiberal Groups, February 2001 "Justice, Stability and Humanitarian Intervention," University at Albany Philosophy Colloquium, October 2000
11 "Geeks and Monsters: Bias Crimes and Social Identity," Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics Conference on Hate Crimes, April 2000, Georgia State University "Autonomy, Distributive Justice, and State Coercion," New York University Colloquium on Law and Philosophy, October 1999 Commentator on Thomas Pogge and Liam Murphy, Stanford University Conference on National Borders, May 1999 Commentator on Allan Buchanan and Henry Shue, Symposium on Nationalism and Justice, Pacific Division APA meeting, May 1999 "Cultural Survival and Assimilation," University of Tennessee Colloquium on Law and Philosophy, February 1999 Commentator on Jim Nickel and Akeel Bilgrami, University of Utah Colloquium on Ethics and International Borders, March 1998 "Refugees, Students, and Workers: Moral Constraints on Admission to Citizenship," Colloquium Paper, Pacific Division APA meeting, May 1998 Invited participant, University of San Diego Conference on Analytic Philosophy of Law (Druim Moir), April 1998 Invited participant, Institute for Civil Society conference on Liberty and the Law, April 1998 "National Borders and Distributive Justice," First Annual Young Scholars Conference, Institute for Civil Society, Chicago, March 1997 "Groups, Relationships, and Social Equality," (with Debra Satz) Conference on New Directions in Ethics, University of Oregon, February 1997 Service and consulting: Member, hiring committee, medical ethics search, 2014-2015 Diversity committee, Evans School, 2010-present Curriculum committee, department of Philosophy, 2009-present Respondent to review committee for Program on Values in Society, 2009-2010 Chair, Degree Prize Committee, Evans School, 2009-2010 Chair, hiring committee for two post-doctoral fellowships (one in international ethics and one in environmental ethics), Program on Values, 2008-2009. Member, Royalty Research Fund, 2007-2009. Lead reviewer on 24 proposals in the humanities and social sciences. Editorial reviewer, American Journal of Political Science, Law and Philosophy, Political Theory, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Political Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Polity Press, and Cambridge University Press.
12 Member, organizing committee, Global Justice in the 21 st Century conference, April 17-18, 2009. Member, steering committee for ethics, 2007-2008 Member, hiring committee, department of Philosophy, 2006-2007 Member, admissions committee, 2006-2007 Member, hiring committee and admissions committee, 2005-2006 Member, MPP admissions committee, 2003-2004 Member, diversity committee, 2003-2004 Organized Harvard speaker series, Center for Ethics and the Professions, 2002-2003. Consultant to UN2000 project, Gorbachev Foundation (run in cooperation with United Nations general assembly) Invited participant, 1999 State of the World Forum, Fall 1999, in cooperation with the UN2000 project; discussant, liberalism and the future of international cooperation Radio Presentations and Miscellaneous: My Brothers s and my Sister s - Keeper, with Arthur Ripstein and Simone Chambers, Ideas, CBC Radio one, April 2013 Freedom of Expression, with Arthur Ripstein and Simone Chambers, Ideas, CBC radio one, April 2011 Secularism, with Arthur Ripstein, Simone Chambers, and Mohammed Fadel, Ideas, CBC radio one, April 2010 Ethics correspondent, The Conversation, KUOW Radio, 2009-2012 Democracy, with Arthur Ripstein and Simone Chambers, Ideas, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, March 2009. The Dog Ate My Homework, with Arthur Ripstein and Simone Chambers, Ideas, April 2008. Environmental Ethics, with Steve Gardiner, KUOW, Spring 2007 The Tolerance Trialogues, (with Sunny Kim and Genevieve Chornenki) for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast February 26, 27, and 28, 2007 in Canada and U.S. (NPR). Released as 3-CD set in July, 2007. Ask the Ethicist, Recurring role for KUOW, 2006-2009. Course head, with Mathias Risse, Global Justice, taught for Max Weber Studienstiftung, Neubeuern, Germany, August 2006. Intensive two-week course on global political philosophy for advanced German undergraduates. Emergencies, with Gopal Sreenivasan and Arthur Ripstein, Ideas,, April 4, 2006.
13 Borders and Boundaries, Ideas,, April 25, 2005. Panel Discussion with Arthur Ripstein and Seana Shiffrin. Patriotism and Democracy Chicago Public Radio, March 2003. Panel discussion with Susan Okin (Stanford) and Gary Gerstle (Maryland). Language Death, The World Today, BBC World Service, June 12, 2002. Conversation with Andrew Dalby about the moral status of endangered languages. The Truth About Lying, with Samantha Brennan and Arthur Ripstein, Ideas, May 27, 2002. For your own good, Ideas, with Samantha Brennan and Arthur Ripstein, Ideas, February 7, 2001.. Joining the Tribe, To the Best of our Knowledge, Public Radio International, March 4, 2001. Discussion of assimilation and cross-cultural interaction. Endangered Languages, Analysis, BBC Radio World Service, May 2001. Interviewed about linguistic death and liberal justice. Courses Taught: Contemporary Moral Problems Global justice (large lecture class, with Bill Talbott) Contemporary theories of justice (Seminar) Identity in Democracy (Seminar) International Justice (Seminar) Ethics and Public Policy (for public policy students) Justice and development (for public policy students) Capstone for Values in Society minor (service learning) Capstone for Values in Society certificate program The Responsibilities of Public Action (MPP Core program) Workshop on Ethics and the Professions (with Arthur Applbaum) Contemporary Theories of Justice (Proseminar) Contemporary Theories of Justice (Seminar) Reasoning in and About the Law International Justice (upper division course) Political Philosophy Philosophy of Law (Proseminar: Property) Philosophy of Law (Seminar: The Concept of Law) Workshop on Moral and Political Philosophy (with Christine Korsgaard, Tim Scanlon, and Melissa Barry) Online teaching: Course designer, Contemporary Moral Problems, taught through the University of Washington Extension Office, as part of pilot program for degree completion in the social sciences (course designed 2013; taught fall 2014)