Colin Macleod

Biography

Colin joined the department in 1998 and has previously taught at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. He has also been a visiting fellow to the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Edinburgh. In 2002 he was given a joint appointment between the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Law.

Education

• BA (Queen's University)
• MA (Dalhousie University)
• PhD (Cornell University)

Selected books

•  Philosophical Perspectives on Moral and Civic Education: Shaping Citizens and Their Schools (co-edited with Christine Tappolet) Routledge 2019.
• Have A Little Faith: Religion, Democracy and the American Public School (co-written with Ben Justice), University of Chicago Press, 2016.
• The Nature of Children’s Well-being: Theory and Practice (co-edited with A. Bagattini), Springer, 2014.
• Justice and Equality. University of Calgary Press, 2012. [This edited collection also appears a Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 36]
• Between Consenting Peoples: Political Community and the Meaning of Consent, (co-edited with Jeremy Webber), University of British Columbia Press, 2010.
• The Moral and Political Status of Children, (co-edited w. D. Archard), Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Liberalism, Justice, and Markets: A Critique of Liberal Equality, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Selected publications

• ‘Children’s Rights and Democratic Education’, The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education, Johannes Drerup, Douglas Yacek & Julian Culp (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• ‘Non-Preparatory Dimensions of Educational Justice’ in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Randall Curren, (ed), Routledge 2023.
• ‘The Family and Intergenerational Justice: A Liberal Egalitarian Perspective’ in The Oxford Handbook to Intergenerational Ethics, Stephen Gardiner (ed), Oxford University Press, 2021.
• “Introduction” (co-written with Christine Tappolet) in Philosophical Perspectives on Moral and Civic Education: Shaping Citizens and Their Schools (eds. Colin Macleod and Christine Tappolet) Routledge 2019: 1-11.
• “The Good Parent” in Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Childhood and Children, Gideon Calder, Anca Gheaus and Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds), Routledge 2019, 169-179.
• “Are Children’s Rights Important?” in Philosophical Foundations of Children’s and Family Law, Elizabeth Brake and Lucinda Ferguson (eds), Oxford University Press, 2018: 191-208. “Distributive Justice and the Family” in The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice, Serena Olsaretti (ed.), Oxford University Press 2018, 415-437.
• “Democratic Deliberation and Electoral Reform” in Should We Change How We Vote: Evaluating Canada’s Electoral System Andrew Potter, Daniel Weinstock and Peter Loewen (eds). McGill-Queens University Press, 2017: pp. 74-85.
• “Doctrinal Vulnerability and the Authority of Children’s Voices” in Vulnerability, Autonomy and Applied Ethics, Christine Straehle (ed.) Routledge 2017: pp. 171-184.
• “Fundamentally Incompetent: Homophobia, Religion, and the Right to Parent” (co-authored with Samantha Brennan) in Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights, Jaime Ahlberg and Michael Chobli (eds.), Routledge 2016: pp. 230-245.

For a detailed list of Dr. Macleod's recent publications, see our "What We're Writing" page.

Recognition and Awards

•  2022 Israel Scheffler Prize in Philosophy of Education

Grants

•  2022 Canadian Bar Association $15,000 Research Grant for project: Tax Reform- From Theory to Practice.

Courses

• Law 327:  Jurisprudence Law

Graduate supervision

I am interested in supervising graduate students working on topics in jurisprudence, children's rights, theories of distributive justice, and democratic theory.