Luis Cabrera’s work has focused on institutional changes above the nation-state to promote the protection of human rights. His most recent book, The Practice of Global Citizenship (Cambridge University Press 2010), seeks to identify the universal human duties that correspond to individual economic and political rights. His theoretical claims were informed by extensive field work at sites of intense unauthorised immigration in the United States, Mexico, and Western Europe.
His 2004 book, Political Theory of Global Justice, offered an argument based in distributive justice for democratically accountable political integration above the state, up to some form of fully global government. His current book project, The Possibility of Global PoliticLuis Cabrera’s work has focused on institutional changes above the nation-state to promote the protection of human rights. His most recent book, The Practice of Global Citizenship (Cambridge University Press 2010), seeks to identify the universal human duties that correspond to individual economic and political rights. His theoretical claims were informed by extensive field work at sites of intense unauthorised immigration in the United States, Mexico, and Western Europe.
His 2004 book, Political Theory of Global Justice, offered an argument based in distributive justice for democratically accountable political integration above the state, up to some form of fully global government. His current book project, The Possibility of Global Political Community, seeks to identify best practices for suprastate democracy through giving fine-grained attention to democracy under conditions of deep diversity in such states as India, and within the European Union.
Before turning to academia full time, Luis worked as a staff reporter for The Associated Press in Seattle, covering criminal justice issues, politics, the anti-corporate-globalisation movement, the Seattle music scene, and the NBA Seattle SuperSonics. He is an associate staff member of the University of Birmingham’s Centre for the Study of Global Ethics.