Faisal K. Bhabha
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St. George,Email Address:
Biography:
- BA (Combined Honours), McMaster University (Classics and History; minor in French)
- MA, McGill University (History)
- MA, University of Chicago (Social Sciences)
- JD, University of Toronto
Faisal is a joint JD/PhD student (JD conferred in 2023). He works primarily on questions at the intersection of legal, political and moral philosophy, especially Kant’s contributions to these areas. His dissertation project explores the normative foundations of parental authority and children’s rights. He defends a broadly Kantian approach that aims to reconcile the moral status of children as free and equal beings with their nonvoluntary subordination to caregivers. This project has implications for important legal and public policy issues regarding the state’s authority to police the family, children’s medical decision making, and childhood education, among other things. Other specific areas of interest include tort law, contract law and fiduciary law. Faisal also works on Kant’s aesthetics.