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Affiliated Faculty

Seyla Benhabib

Senior Research Scholar in the Faculty of Law, School of Law

Research Interest

19th and 20th century European social and political philosophy
Citizenship and migration studies
Feminist theory
Democratic theory
Migration and refugee studies
German legal and political thought
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