Christopher Finlay

Christopher Finlay grew up in Omagh, Northern Ireland, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he took a BA in History and Political Science and a PhD in Modern History. After a number of research and teaching positions at Trinity and University College Dublin, he taught at the University of Birmingham for ten years (2007-2017), becoming Reader in Political Theory in 2015. He joined Durham University's School of Government and International Affairs as Professor in Political Theory in 2017.

Christopher has held a number of research fellowships, including a British Academy Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2010-11), and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2017-19). He recently competed a short book on just war for Polity Press and is currently writing a longer manuscript on the idea of 'legitimate violence' in political thought.