Maggie O'Brien

Assistant Professor
Email: mjobrien@yorku.ca
Before starting at York, I taught at the University of Edinburgh in both the Law School and Philosophy Deptartment. I received my PhD in philosophy from McMaster University in 2016 and completed a Masters in Studies in Law from the University of Toronto in 2017.
I research and teach in feminist, legal, and political philosophy. I am particularly interested in the questions that come up at the intersection of these areas. My current work is on standing—both legal standing and moral and political standing. Standing (to a first approximation) means the right to perform certain sorts of speech-acts. I am developing a feminist case for a skeptical view about the value of standing norms according to which they are pernicious, especially to women.
O'Brien, Maggie and Alexandra Whelan, "Hypocrisy in Politics". Ergo, forthcoming.
Before starting at York, I taught at the University of Edinburgh in both the Law School and Philosophy Deptartment. I received my PhD in philosophy from McMaster University in 2016 and completed a Masters in Studies in Law from the University of Toronto in 2017.
I research and teach in feminist, legal, and political philosophy. I am particularly interested in the questions that come up at the intersection of these areas. My current work is on standing—both legal standing and moral and political standing. Standing (to a first approximation) means the right to perform certain sorts of speech-acts. I am developing a feminist case for a skeptical view about the value of standing norms according to which they are pernicious, especially to women.
All Publications
O'Brien, Maggie and Alexandra Whelan, "Hypocrisy in Politics". Ergo, forthcoming.